HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — TriOut Advisory Group plans to develop a 223,500-square-foot industrial project in Huntsville. The project will be situated near I-565 on an 18-acre site along Sparkman Drive within Cummings Research Park. The project team includes locally based civil engineer Johnson & Associates. NAI Chase Commercial Real Estate is handling the leasing assignment on behalf of TriOut.
CERRITOS, CALIF. — A joint venture between Capital 360 and Charlotte-based Barings has completed the disposition of Extra Space Storage in Cerritos to Houston-based Hines for $91 million. Nick Walker and Trevor Roberts of CBRE’s Self Storage Advisory Group represented the seller in in the transaction. Capital 360 and Barings originally acquired the site in 2018. Situated on 4.9 acres at 17900 Crusader Ave., the three-story, 260,273-square-foot facility offers 2,460 storage units. Constructed in 2020, the facility was more than 88 percent occupied at the time of sale.
SAN DIEGO — Miramar Acquisitions has acquired 7191 Carroll Road, a 3.6-acre industrial outdoor storage (IOS) facility in San Diego’s Miramar submarket, from TFI International for $14.6 million. Evan McDonald, Kurtis Blanchard and Mark Lewkowitz of Colliers represented the buyer and seller in the deal. The low-coverage site features a 6,300-square-foot cross-dock facility with excess paved and secured yard space. The property’s zoning allows for an array of outdoor industrial uses, including equipment and material storage, vehicle equipment and supplies sales and rentals, and trucking and transportation facilities.
MILWAUKEE — Crow Holdings has expanded the scope of its South Cargo Logistics Hub project at the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Wisconsin. The development is a public-private partnership whereby most of the $75 million in capital cost and resources necessary to complete the project will come from private sources. The developer signed a ground lease with the county. At the end of the term, the county will have the option for all improvements to become its property. Crow has expanded the size of the new facility by nearly 50,000 square feet for a total of 337,000 square feet, which is consistent with the 2022 Airport Master Plan prepared by Milwaukee County. Crow will also deliver a new garage for the Milwaukee County Highway department. The project scope has also grown to include large-scale repairs to the roughly 16 acres of public taxiway area directly adjacent to the project. This added work will enable modern wide-body cargo traffic to operate in this part of the airport on a consistent basis for the first time, according to a release. The increased size will facilitate the simultaneous parking of up to five Boeing 777-8F, or equivalent, plane parking positions along with a …
DALLAS — JLL has arranged a loan of an undisclosed amount for the refinancing of three industrial buildings totaling 1.9 million square feet at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The buildings in question are part of Phases II and III of the larger development known as DFW Commerce Center and feature 32- to 40-foot clear heights, 180- to 185-foot truck court depths and 399 total dock doors. Campbell Roche, Lauren Dow, Kristi Leonard, Ryan Pollack and Campbell Swango of JLL arranged the floating-rate debt through Ares Management Corp. on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Goldman Sachs Alternatives and CLX Ventures.
HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — Dallas-based MYCON General Contractors has broken ground on an approximately 1,600-unit self-storage facility for U-Haul in Haltom City, located north of Fort Worth. The facility will consist of a 28,866-square-foot pre-engineered metal building designated for U-Box storage, a 81,978-square-foot self-storage building and five drive-up storage buildings totaling 15,500 square feet. The project marks MYCON’s eighth collaboration with U-Haul and follows the groundbreaking of an 800-unit facility in Denton. Completion is slated for a March 2025 completion.
CORBIN, KY. — NAI Isaac has facilitated the sale-leaseback of a 127,373-square-foot industrial facility located at 1401 N. Kentucky Route 3041 in Corbin, a city in south Kentucky situated along I-75. Bruce Isaac of NAI Isaac represented the buyer, an entity doing business as MISCKY Industrial 24 LLC, in the transaction. Kevin Grove and Alex Grove of CBRE represented the seller/tenant, Minnesota-based cabinet manufacturer Northern Contours. Terms of the transaction were also not disclosed.
HAMBURG, PA. — JLL has negotiated the sale of a 518,140-square-foot industrial facility in Hamburg, about 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Hamburg Logistics Center features a cross-dock configuration, a clear height of 40 feet, ESFR sprinkler system, 185-foot truck court depths, 100 dock doors, four drive-in doors and speculative office space. John Plower, Ryan Cottone, Zach Maguire, Jeff Lockard and Paul Torosian of JLL represented the seller, a joint venture between Transwestern Development Co. and QuadReal Property Group, in the transaction. Chad Orcutt, Jon Mikula and Jim Cadranell, also with JLL, arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer, Los Angeles-based PCCP LLC.
LAS VEGAS — Northmarq has arranged $18 million in refinancing for two-building industrial portfolio, totaling more than 246,000 square feet, in Las Vegas. The portfolio includes an industrial warehouse that was built in 1992 and situated on 7.5 acres along Pilot Road, as well as a property that was built in 2017 on 5.5 acres along East Craig Road. The buildings are occupied by a vitamin and supplements retail and e-commerce store and a fabric/linens supplier. David Blum of Northmarq’s Newport Beach, Calif., Debt + Equity team secured the permanent fixed-rate loan for the undisclosed borrower through a correspondent life company lender. The transaction was structured on a seven-year, interest-only term.
LEBANON, IND. — Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) has unveiled plans to invest $4.5 billion to create the Lilly Medicine Foundry, a new center for advanced manufacturing and drug development in Lebanon, about 27 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The Medicine Foundry, slated to open in late 2027, will be located in Indiana’s LEAP Research and Innovation District. The project brings Lilly’s total investment in the area to more than $13 billion. Earlier this year, Lilly released plans for a $5.3 billion expansion of its pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Lebanon. “As we accelerate our work to discover new medicines for the toughest diseases, we’re continuing to invest in state-of-the-art infrastructure to support our growing pipeline,” says David Ricks, Lilly’s chair and CEO. “In addition to supplying high-quality medicine for our clinical studies, this new complex will further strengthen our process development and scale up our manufacturing capabilities to speed delivery of next-generation medicines to patients around the world.” Lilly says the flexible design of the new facility will enable production of various molecular therapies, including drug substances for small molecules, biologics and nucleic acid therapies. New technologies developed at the Medicine Foundry will be transferred to Lilly’s other manufacturing sites …