FLORIDA, N.Y. — Amazon has purchased a 143-acre industrial development site in Florida, located about 65 miles northwest of New York City near the New York-New Jersey border. The fully entitled site is located along State Highway 5 and has all major utilities already in place. Amazon did not announce specific development plans for the site, but the facility will be known as Mohawk Valley Industrial Center. Jim Panczykowski of JLL led a team that marketed the site on behalf of the seller, regional investment and development firm Winstanley Enterprises.
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MORRISVILLE, PA. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 973,200-square-foot industrial lease in Morrisville, located near Trenton along the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border. The tenant is an undisclosed provider of warehouse services. The deal is for the entirety of the building located at 2300 S. Pennsylvania Ave., which is known as South Penn Logistics Center and features a clear height of 40 feet. John Gartland, Kevin Hagenberg and Chris Butera of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Chicago-based Logistics Property Co., in the lease negotiations. Kevin Dudley of CBRE represented the tenant.
NILES, ILL. — PREMIER has broken ground on a manufacturing facility for Linx Global in Niles. The 82,125-square-foot building features an additional 18,000-square-foot production mezzanine. Linx is a global product development and contract manufacturing company. The new facility will grow Linx’s R&D operations and deepen its footprint in medical, advanced packaging and electromechanical assembly space. The project will house a range of specialized manufacturing and research spaces, including a wet lab, quality control lab, 3D print room and dedicated support areas. The office areas will include conference rooms, private offices, breakout rooms and open workspaces. Employees will have access to a café and green roof deck with a walking path, outdoor kitchen and gas fire pit. The project team includes Heitman Architects, Spaceco Inc., MK Industries Inc., Swift Structural Design and Connelly Electric. Substantial completion is slated for the first quarter of 2027.
CROWLEY, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale ofDry Dock & Lock, a 466-unit self-storage facility in Crowley, a southern suburb of Fort Worth. Built on 20 acres in 2021, Dry Dock & Lock totals 200,940 rentable square feet of space across a mix of enclosed, covered and uncovered parking spaces for boats and RVs, as well as traditional storage units. Danny Cunningham, Brandon Karr and Jon Danklefs of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Cunningham and Karr also procured the Canadian buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.
GOODLETTSVILLE AND SMYRNA, TENN. — CBRE has arranged $58 million in acquisition financing for a last-mile industrial portfolio in metro Nashville spanning more than 600,000 square feet. Mike Ryan, Richard Henry, J.P. Cordeiro and Taylor Crowder of CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance team arranged the financing through Starwood on behalf of the borrower, Raith Capital Partners. The properties in the portfolio include: 300 Oak Bluff Lane in Goodlettsville (207,080 square feet); 100 Northfork Lane in Goodlettsville (67,000 square feet); 200 Northfork Lane in Goodlettsville (100,500 square feet); and 801 Swan Drive in Smyrna (229,504 square feet). Delivered between 1993 and 1998, the properties were fully leased at the time to five tenants and feature clear heights ranging from 24 to 30 feet.
MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. — Premier Fence, a provider of fencing and outdoor home goods, has acquired a 25.8-acre industrial facility in Middleborough, located south of Boston. The property at 370 Wareham St. features four approximately 20,000-square-foot buildings. Two buildings will house uses such as manufacturing, warehousing of raw materials, storage of finished goods and office, showroom and employee training space. Premier Fence will market the other two buildings for lease. The company expects to open its new facility this spring. MassDevelopment provided $11.7 million in bond financing, some of which is tax-exempt, for the purchase and build-out of the facility. Cambridge Savings Bank purchased the bond.
NEW YORK CITY AND RADNOR, PA. — Mapletree, a global real estate development, investment, capital and property management company, has completed the sale of an industrial portfolio located along the East Coast for $575 million. EQT Real Estate, an industrial owner-operator based in Radnor, was the buyer. Totaling 4.4 million square feet, the logistics portfolio comprises 25 warehouse properties located in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Of the assets, 24 were held under Mapletree US & EU Logistics Private Trust (MUSEL), a closed-end private fund established in 2019. MUSEL launched with $4.3 billion in assets under management. The additional property included in the portfolio was held under the Mapletree US Logistics Private Trust (MUSLOG), a closed-end private fund launched in 2021 with a portfolio of 155 logistics properties totaling $3.3 billion in value. “This divestment reflects the successful execution of our closed-end fund strategy and illustrates the strength of our U.S. industrial platform,” says Richard Prokup, CEO, U.S., at Mapletree. “Looking ahead, we remain confident in the logistics sector’s long-term fundamentals as we advance new development opportunities nationwide to grow our pipeline.” Last year, Mapletree sold another portfolio to EQT for $242 million. …
BEDINGTON, W.VA. — Penzance plans to develop a $4 billion data center campus in Bedington, a city in Berkeley County on the east side of West Virginia. The 600-megawatt (MW) hyperscale campus will be situated on 548 acres and will span 1.9 million square feet at full build-out, with the ability to scale further to meet future demand. Penzance made the announcement last week in the West Virginia State Capitol with Gov. Patrick Morrisey and other state and local government staffers. The Berkeley County site marks the first high-impact data center project approved under West Virginia’s House Bill 2014. Penzance plans to begin construction before the end of the year, with delivery of the first megawatts of capacity targeted for the end of 2028. In addition to the Bedington project, Penzance recently broke ground on a 45 MW, 240,000-square-foot data center in Chantilly, Va.
FONTANA, CALIF. — DAUM Commercial Real Estate Services has arranged the sale of an industrial distribution building located at 6260 Mango Ave. in Fontana. Magellan Value Partners sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $30.2 million. The end user is a clothing-based distribution company based out of New Jersey. The property offers 113,930 square feet of Class A space with a clear height of 32 feet, 19 dock-high doors and options for expandable power. Noah Samarin, David Gores and Gary Womack of DAUM represented the seller, while DAUM’s Steve Haston, along with LA Commercial’s John Lasiter, represented the buyer in the transaction.
PLATTE CITY, MO. — Colliers has brokered the sale of a 748,833-square-foot industrial facility in Platte City within metro Kansas City. Constructed in 2024, the distribution building is fully leased to Central Power Systems & Services under a long-term lease. The property features a clear height of 36 feet, 463 auto parking stalls, 74 dock doors and seven drive-in doors. Alex Cantu, Alex Davenport, Jeff Devine, Steve Disse, Tyler Ziebel and John Stafford of Colliers represented the seller, VanTrust Real Estate. The buyer was undisclosed.