Industrial

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SUNNYVALE, TEXAS — California-based CapRock Partners has acquired 32.5 acres in Sunnyvale, an eastern suburb of Dallas, for the development of a 518,000-square-foot industrial project that will be known as Clay Road Business Park. The development will consist of three shallow-bay buildings with 32-foot clear heights, dock-high and ramp loading doors, ESFR sprinklers and trailer parking. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2025 and be compete in 2026. Kurt Griffin, Nathan Orbin, Dalton Knipe and Weston King of JLL represented CapRock in the land acquisition.

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HOUSTON — Bel Air Lighting has purchased a 112,667-square-foot industrial building in North Houston. According to showcase.com, the building at 16622 Hafer Road was constructed in 2023 and features 32-foot clear heights, 22 dock doors, two drive-in doors and 130 car parking spaces. Jeremy Lumbreras and Garret Geaccone of Stream Realty Partners represented the seller, locally based firm Alliance Industrial Co., in the transaction. The sales price was not disclosed.

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HERCULANEUM, MO. — The Jefferson County Port Authority (JCPA) has purchased approximately 18 acres along the Mississippi River in Herculaneum, a southern suburb of St. Louis. Riverview Commerce Park LLC (RCP), along with the operations of RCP, sold the acreage in a $20 million transaction. The site will serve as the first publicly owned terminal facility in Jefferson County. The port terminal at RCP is situated below any lock and dam system, providing a direct shot to the Gulf of Mexico. The terminal has more than 3,000 square feet of rail spur, located directly off the Union Pacific Railroad, and is less than two miles from I-55. The port facility and surrounding acreage anchors a broader 300-acre site that received Port District zoning earlier this year, making way for redevelopment as an intermodal transportation hub and industrial park. Under the terms of the deal, the port facility will continue to be operated by RCP in partnership with JCPA. Approximately 1 million tons of freight moved through the port in 2023. In 2022, JCPA received $25 million in funding from the State of Missouri to help support port development. This funding enabled JCPA to enter into this agreement and begin planning …

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AURORA, ILL. — SVN Chicago Commercial has arranged the sale of a 45,000-square-foot industrial building in Aurora for $1.5 million. Located at 325 S. Union St., the 111-year-old property, once utilized for manufacturing World War II vehicle parts, is slated to be converted into multifamily units. James Mead of SVN represented the undisclosed seller. The buyer, specializing in adaptive reuse projects, plans to use historic tax credits to complete the project.

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DALLAS — Locally based brokerage firm Holt Lunsford Commercial has negotiated a 25,970-square-foot industrial lease in southwest Dallas. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 4301-4311 Shilling Way was originally constructed in 1971 and totals 74,373 square feet. Canon Shoults and Mitch Cantwell of Holt Lunsford represented the landlord, Boston-based private equity firm Taurus Investment Holdings, in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant, Sunmetals Products of America, was not disclosed.

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BLACKSBURG, S.C. — GTIS Partners and Collett Industrial have broken ground on Stateline 85, a new, 933,120-square-foot industrial development in Blacksburg. Located near the state border between North and South Carolina, the three-building project will be developed in two phases. The first phase, which is scheduled for completion in summer 2025, will comprise two buildings. Buildings 1 and 2 will span 198,720 and 224,640 square feet, respectively. Building 1 will feature 32-foot clear heights with 171 car parking spaces and 50 trailer parking spaces, and Building 2 will offer 36-foot clear heights with 175 car spaces and 63 trailer spaces. The second phase will include up to 500,000 square feet of leasable space. Drew Coholan, Matt Treble and Fermin Deoca of Cushman & Wakefield will oversee leasing at the development on behalf of the joint venture.

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NEW YORK CITY — Global alternative investment firm Investcorp has acquired three national industrial portfolios that collectively total 1.5 million square feet across 41 buildings. The sales price was approximately $300 million. The seller(s) was not disclosed. The details of the three portfolios are as follows: Following this transaction, which comes on the heels of the firm buying a five-building, 435,000-square-foot industrial portfolio on Long Island, Investcorp now owns 640 industrial buildings totaling roughly 42 million square feet across the country. “We remain confident in the industrial asset class, which now represents nearly 60 percent of our real estate assets under management in the United States,” says Herb Myers, co-head of real estate, North America at Investcorp. “While the overall sector has shown signs of normalizing from pandemic-era highs, a lot of this stabilization is concentrated among newly built speculative properties, and we continue to see strong performance and compelling investment opportunities for existing infill assets in high-growth markets.”  “As reshoring and nearshoring have reshaped the industrial and manufacturing landscapes, well-located, multi-tenanted industrial assets have continued to attract robust interest from tenants and investors,” adds Michael Moriarty, managing director and head of commercial acquisitions at Investcorp. “The properties comprising these …

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— By David Nelson, regional president of brokerage for Northern California and Nevada, Kidder Mathews — After record figures across most U.S. industrial markets in 2021 and 2022, key fundamentals cooled in 2023 and have been recalibrating ever since. Total net absorption has been negative in recent quarters, sublease space is on the rise, vacancy and availability rates have been steadily inching up, and average asking lease rates are relatively flat. Furthermore, the recent surge in development activity due to the rise in ecommerce penetration has been slowly drying up with construction starts dropping by more than 60 percent in 2023 and 2024.  Core industrial markets in the Bay Area experienced notable increases in both vacancy and availability. Silicon Valley vacancy rose from between 1.5 percent and 2.5 percent last year to 3 percent and 4 percent in 2024. Meanwhile, East Bay rose from 3.5 percent and 4 percent in 2023 to 5.5 percent and 6.5 percent in second-quarter 2024.  During the first half of the year, an increase in sublease space has been a major contributor to the higher rates. They have increased from the pre-COVID average of 9 percent of total available space to 19 percent at the end …

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MIAMI — Avison Young has brokered the $9.1 million sale of an industrial property located at 7400 N.W. 37th Ave. in Miami. RAM Steel Framing occupies the building, which totals 109,000 square feet. John Crotty, David Duckworth, Michael Fay and Brian de la Fé of Avison Young represented the seller, Plage Associates, and the buyer, Azora Exan, in the transaction. The same team previously arranged Plage Associates’ $7.5 million purchase of the property in 2020. RAM Steel Framing will continue to occupy the building, which is situated roughly three miles from Miami International Airport.

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HOUSTON — Los Angeles-based investment firm Lunada Rose Partners has acquired a 185,413-square-foot industrial building located at 13612 Furman Road on the south side of Houston. The building was completed earlier this year and features 32-foot clear heights, 34 loading docks and two drive-in doors. At the time of sale, the building was fully leased to Empire Auto Parts on a long-term basis. JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the off-market transaction. The sales price was also not disclosed, but the deal traded in all-cash and was originally listed for $21.8 million.

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