WEBSTER, N.Y. — Ranger Design, a manufacturer of shelving and partitions for vans, trucks and trailers, has signed a 151,169-square-foot industrial lease in Webster, a suburb of Rochester. The company is relocating from nearby Ontario, New York, to a 768,475-square-foot building at 700 Resende Road. The building is part of the former Xerox campus and features clear heights of 16 to 24 feet and 50,000 square feet of office space. James Panczykowski of JLL represented the locally based landlord, Tessy Plastics Corp., in the lease negotiations. Ranger Design was self-represented.
MESA, ARIZ. — Austin, Texas-based KoMiCo Phoenix LLC, a company that offers semiconductor cleaning and coating services, has purchased a manufacturing facility at 7300 E. Hampton Ave. in Mesa. Tempe-based 7300 East Hampton LLC sold the property for $17.5 million. KoMiCo will redevelop the 125,000-square-foot facility into an advanced semiconductor equipment parts cleaning, coating and repair facility in the Superstition Springs area of the Southeast Valley. The facility, which is situated on 12.5 acres, is slated to be operational by 2026. Representing a more than $50 million in capital investments, the building will be KoMiCo’s third location in the United States and eighth globally. Rick Foss, Isy Sonabend and Drew Eisen of NAI Horizon represented the buyer, while Lee & Associates represented the seller in the transaction.
SAN DIEGO — A joint venture between RPG and Steel Peak has acquired 9606 Aero Drive, a 38,704-square-foot flex office property in San Diego. Total consideration for the acquisition was $12.1 million, which the joint venture’s institutional equity partner supported. The undisclosed seller will continue to occupy the asset as its headquarters through 2025 as part of a leaseback agreement. Situated on 4.2 acres, the asset includes existing office space and a vacated data center that will be converted into warehouse space with multiple grade-level loading doors, creating a Class A industrial outdoor storage facility. Additional improvements to the property will include fencing, lighting and paving. Kurtis Blanchard and Evan McDonald of Colliers represented the buyers in the deal.
OGDEN, UTAH — The LeClaire-Schlosser Group of Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of Vault Storage, a storage facility in Ogden, approximately 35 miles north of Salt Lake City. Mountain West Self-Storage acquired the asset from the original developer for an undisclosed price. Jordan Farrer and Adam Schlosser of The LeClaire-Schlosser Group represented the seller in the deal. Located at 1506 Gibson Ave., Vault Storage consists of eight one-story buildings offering a total of 371 climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled units. The facility has all metal buildings, metal interior walls, standing seam metal roofs, roll-up doors and asphalt driveways.
INDIANAPOLIS — Alfa Laval, a global provider of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling products, has signed a 324,000-square-foot industrial lease at Building 2 within County Line Commerce industrial park in Indianapolis. The tenant will occupy the entire building. Developed by a joint venture between Gershman and Citimark, County Line Commerce consists of five buildings totaling nearly 1.9 million square feet. Construction is now complete at the 170-acre industrial park, which is located at the intersection of County Line Road and I-65. Brian Seitz of JLL represented the landlords in the lease, while Charlie Polk and Brian Buschuk of JLL represented the tenant. Buildings 1, 3 and 4 are still available for lease.
RALEIGH, N.C. AND WASHINGTON, D.C. — Advance Auto Parts Inc. (NYSE: AAP) has agreed to sell Worldpac, the Raleigh-based company’s automotive parts wholesale distribution business, to funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) for $1.5 billion in cash. Advance Auto Parts operated 321 Worldpac locations primarily within the United States as of the end of the second quarter. These warehouses, 135 of which are branded Autopart International, are generally larger than the company’s retail locations, averaging approximately 26,000 square feet. Worldpac offers over 293,000 parts for domestic and import vehicles and primarily serves professional customers such as vehicle repair shops, with services including same-day delivery of automotive parts through a fleet of company-owned vehicles. Over the past 12 months, these locations generated approximately $2.1 billion in revenue and $100 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). Advance expects to close the transaction before the end of the year, with Advance expecting net proceeds of approximately $1.2 billion after taxes and transaction fees. These proceeds will be used to strengthen the company’s balance sheet and invest in its core retail business, said Shane O’Kelly, president and CEO of Advance Auto Parts, during an earnings call earlier …
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Four Hands has signed a 570,489-square-foot industrial lease near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on the city’s southeast side. The locally based distributor of high-end furniture will occupy the entirety of Airport Logistics Center Building 2, which is part of a larger 92-acre development. Ace Schlameus and Kyle McCulloch of JLL represented the landlord, Dallas-based Dalfen Industrial, in the lease negotiations. Chad Marsh of Endeavor Real Estate Group represented the tenant. The deal marks the largest industrial lease in Austin this year, according to the brokerage teams.
DENVER — Houston-based Lovett Industrial has completed construction of Broadway Logistics Center, a speculative Class A industrial building in central Denver. Located at 6795 Broadway, the 201,329-square-foot, front-park, rear-load industrial facility features a 2,250-square-foot Class A office build-out, 32-foot clear heights, six-inch reinforced concrete slab, 204 auto parking stalls, 57 dock-high doors, 130-foot truck courts and 50 trailer parks. Drew McManus, Bryan Fry and Ryan Searle of Cushman & Wakefield in Denver are marketing the facility for lease. The asset can be leased to a single tenant or multiple tenants with divisibility down to 22,360 square feet.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Le Investment Group has arranged the sale of an industrial portfolio in Riverside, located in the Inland Empire region. The asset traded for $36.6 million, or $179.27 per square foot. Located at 1660-1880 Iowa Ave., the multi-building portfolio offers 203,939 square feet of industrial space. Le Investment Group represented the undisclosed seller in the deal. The name of the buyer was also not released.
ESCONDIDO, CALIF. — Steel Peak has acquired an industrial outdoor storage (IOS) property, located at 2213 Meyers Ave. in the San Diego suburb of Escondido, for $3.7 million. The IOS property features an 8,000-square-foot industrial building and large, secured, fenced yard on 1.7 acres. The building features 18-foot clear heights, six oversized ground-level loading doors, abundant power and office space. Mike Erwin, Tucker Hohenstein and Hank Jenkins of Colliers San Diego represented the seller, Act Property Acquisition Partners II LLC, and the buyer in the transaction.