SANDY SPRINGS, GA. — Atlanta-based Third & Urban has purchased Northridge Commons, a seven-building industrial flex campus in Sandy Springs, a northern suburb of Atlanta. The 470,000-square-foot property is located at 8601 Dunwoody Place near Ga. Highway 400. Dilweg sold the campus for an undisclosed price. Will Yowell of CBRE’s National Office Partners team in Atlanta represented the seller in the transaction. Mike Ryan, Brian Linnihan and J.P. Cordeiro of CBRE Capital Markets’ Debt & Structured Finance team arranged $48.5 million in acquisition financing for Third & Urban. Northridge Commons was 83 percent leased at the time of sale to a variety of office, flex and warehouse occupiers, including Inspire Brands and Invitation Homes, a subsidiary of Blackstone. Third & Urban says it will reposition some of the office spaces to attract more flex industrial users.
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WESTON, FLA. — A joint venture between Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. (LPC) and Chicago-based Walton Street Capital has acquired a 226,392-square-foot distribution center located at 1600 N. Park Drive in Weston, a city in South Florida’s Broward County. Munich-based Manova Partners sold the property for $43.8 million. José Lobón, Trey Barry, Frank Fallon, Royce Rose, George Fallon, Gabriel Braun and Daniel Sarmiento of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. LPC will provide property management services and construction oversight for the distribution center, which was partially leased at the time of sale to Mondelēz International Inc., a global food-and-beverage distributor based in Chicago.
SUMNER, WASH. — New York-based Madison Capital has acquired four REI Co-op distribution centers in Sumner, Wash., Bedford, Penn., Goodyear, Ariz. and Lebanon, Tenn., for $230 million in a sale-leaseback transaction, which also includes the land associated with the properties. REI Co-op will continue to maintain and operate all buildings, as well as own all equipment and machinery inside each facility. The co-op’s network of distribution centers services its more than 190 stores across the country, as well as fulfills customers’ online orders. Heartland LLC, in cooperation with BRK Real Estate Advisors, JLL and Foundry Commercial, represented Sumner-based REI.
Cosmetics Giant L’Oréal Completes $160M Research and Innovation Center in Clark, New Jersey
by John Nelson
CLARK, N.J. — French cosmetics company L’Oréal Groupe has announced the completion of its new North America Research & Innovation (R&I) Center located in Clark, roughly 13 miles outside Newark, N.J. The $160 million, 250,000-square-foot scientific research center is L’Oréal’s largest outside of France and will complement existing L’Oréal R&I hubs in Brazil, South Africa, India, China and Japan. “New Jersey has served as our scientific hub here in the United States for over six decades, and we are excited to expand our footprint in the state and bring all our scientific teams together in a beautiful and modern new research facility,” says David Greenberg, president and CEO of L’Oréal USA. The North America R&I Center broke ground in 2022 and comprises a 26,000-square-foot modular laboratory, a consumer center for product testing and co-creation (which accommodates up to 400 patrons) and an onsite mini factory to scale final formulations before full-scale productions. Sustainability attributes of the center include 10,000 solar panels, which meet 70 percent of the facility’s energy needs, an eco-retention pond for stormwater management and employee-led gardening and composting initiatives that create a green workspace. According to company representatives, the North America R&I Center will play a “pivotal …
HOUSTON — ACMI Properties, the development arm of the American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation, will develop Exploration Park, a 1.5 million-square-foot build-to-suit industrial park in southeast Houston. The site spans 207 acres on NASA’s Johnson Space Center campus. Plans for Exploration Park currently call for as many as 22 buildings ranging in size from 15,000 to 500,000 square feet with 24- to 30-foot clear heights and rear- or side-load configurations. Construction is expected to begin in the second quarter and to be complete in late 2026. JLL has been tapped as the leasing agent.
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — Echo Real Estate Capital, in joint venture with Grandview Partners, has completed the sale of Echo Park 303 – Building A in Glendale to LBA Logistics for an undisclosed price. Will Strong, Molly Hunt, Michael Matchett, Madeline Warren and Jack Stamets of Cushman & Wakefield’s National Industrial Advisory Group – Mountain West represented the seller in the transaction. Located at 9701 N. 151st Ave., the freestanding building offers 220,240 square feet of industrial space on 13.7 acres. The asset is park of a larger 38.6-acre industrial business park that also includes a 455,936-square-foot building. Echo Park 303 was originally designed by LGE Design Build.
LAS VEGAS — CBRE has brokered the sale of an industrial building located at 3670 W. Oquendo Road in Las Vegas. HS Property NV LLC acquired the asset from NOR Oquendo Road LLC for $7.9 million. The 28,420-square-foot building features a high-image, 6,534-square-foot two-story HVAC office space with an elevator, 12 covered parking spaces (34 total), 3,000 amps, three-phase power and a 28-foot clear height. Tyler Ecklund of CBRE represented the seller in the deal.
LOUISVILLE AND SIMPSONVILLE, KY. — Aphorio Carter Critical Infrastructure Fund LLC has purchased two data centers in Louisville and Simpsonville for a combined purchase price of $35 million. The seller was not disclosed. Both properties span 102,500 square feet and are LEED Gold-certified. Additionally, both data centers were built in 2011 and are fully leased to the same tenant, an undisclosed Fortune 200 firm. The two properties also include 10,000 square feet of raised floor space, an additional 10,000 square feet of shell space for future expansion and 1 megawatt (MW) of critical power. The Louisville data center sits on 30 acres while the Simpsonville data center occupies 21 acres. LG&E provides energy services to the Louisville facility, while Kentucky Utilities services the Simpsonville property.
Merritt Properties Fully Leases Phase II of Imeson Landing Business Park in Jacksonville
by John Nelson
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Merritt Properties has fully leased the second phase of Imeson Landing Business Park, an industrial park in Jacksonville that will span nearly 400,000 square feet upon completion. The first two phases of Imeson Landing house 24 tenants whose spaces range from 3,000 to 30,000 square feet in size. Merritt is planning to soon launch Phase III, which will add 120,000 square feet of new industrial space to the park along Zoo Parkway.
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS — Locally based investment firm M2G Ventures has acquired a 188,000-square-foot industrial complex in the northern Dallas suburb of Lewisville. Known as Lewisville 121 by virtue of its location along State Highway 121, the property comprises six buildings on an 11-acre site. The buildings were constructed between 1991 and 2007 and feature 19- to 33-foot clear heights. M2G Ventures acquired Lewisville 121, which was 96 percent leased at the time of sale, in partnership with Austin-based Evergen Equity. The new ownership will implement a value-add program and has tapped Stream Realty Partners as the leasing agent.