BELVIDERE, ILL. — MAG Capital Partners has purchased a 336,204-square-foot manufacturing facility in Belvidere near Rockford for an undisclosed price. Located at 775 Logistics Drive and built in 2017, the property was designed for heavy manufacturing needs and features clear heights ranging from 27 to 35 feet, 24 fully equipped raised docks and three grade-level doors. Upon closing, Piranha, a manufacturer and assembler of metal cutting, fabrication and bending equipment, signed a long-term lease for the space. MAG Capital Partners, led by principals Dax Mitchell and Andrew Gi, invests in industrial real estate and operating companies throughout the continental U.S. JC Asensio, Andrew Sandquist and Briggs Goldberg of Newmark represented the seller, STAG Industrial Holdings LLC.
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PepsiCo Beverages North America Opens 400,000 SF Distribution Center in Smyrna, Tennessee
by John Nelson
SMYRNA, TENN. — PepsiCo Beverages North America has opened a new distribution center and warehouse facility located at 2020 Midway Lane in Smyrna, a southeast suburb of Nashville. The 400,000-square-foot facility is the company’s largest Southeast distribution center and its second largest in the country. PepsiCo formerly operated from a downtown Nashville distribution facility roughly a third the size of the new Smyrna property. The new facility is certified LEED Silver and features all-electric warehousing equipment, open office spaces, enhanced safety technology and a climate-controlled warehouse. The property, which serves 14 counties in the Nashville metropolitan area, has the capacity to distribute 20 million cases of PepsiCo beverages annually, including Pepsi, Mountain Dew, bubly, Gatorade and Rockstar.
BOSTON — JLL has arranged $27.3 million in acquisition financing for a portfolio of two industrial buildings totaling approximately 315,000 square feet in New England. The addresses were not disclosed, but the buildings are located in Central Massachusetts and the greater Hartford area. Andrew Gray and Ryan Parker of JLL originated the nonrecourse financing through an undisclosed life insurance company. The borrower was locally based investment firm Northbridge Partners. Both buildings are leased to tenants on long-term deals.
FREMONT, CALIF. — Boston-based Longpoint has acquired a three-building light industrial portfolio in Fremont for $31.5 million. Known as The Silicon Valley Portfolio, the 122,168-square-foot asset is Longpoint’s first acquisition in the Bay Area. The portfolio is situated on the East Bay area near the major transportation corridors of Interstates 680 and 880. Steven Golubchik, Edmund Najera, Jonathan Schaefler and Darren Hollak of Newmark’s Western region team handled the transaction. The name of the seller was not released. Joe Kelly of Newmark serves as the leasing advisor for the portfolio.
Cushman & Wakefield Negotiates Sale of Auburn Park 167 Industrial Property in Metro Seattle
by Amy Works
AUBURN, WASH. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Auburn Park 167, an industrial park at 3703 and 3941 I Street NW in Auburn, approximately 20 miles south of Seattle. Terms of the transaction were not released. Situated on 17.6 acres, the 385,986-square-foot Auburn Park 167 features two industrial warehouses with a variety of bay sizes, 30-foot clear heights and grade/dock-high loading doors. Currently, Auburn Park 167 is 100 percent leased. Bryce Aberg, Jeff Chiate, Jeffrey Cole and Matthew Leupold of Cushman & Wakefield’s national industrial investment advisory group represented the seller in the transaction.
WAYNE, PA. — Tremont Realty Capital, a division of metro Boston-based investment firm RMR Group, has provided a $27 million loan for the refinancing of a 138,065-square-foot industrial property in Wayne, a northwestern suburb of Philadelphia. The building at 400 Devon Park Drive was originally constructed in 1969 and features clear heights of 20 to 24 feet. JLL arranged the loan, which was structured with a three-year initial term with two one-year extension options. The borrower was a joint venture between Mainstreet Capital Partners and Contrarian Capital Management.
EXTON, PA. — Locally based developer Hankin Group has broken ground on Phase II of Haywood Business Park, a 70,000-square-foot industrial flex project in Exton, about 35 miles west of Philadelphia. Phase II of Haywood Business Park is being developed on a speculative basis and will consist of two 35,000-square-foot buildings that can support light manufacturing, warehousing and research-and-development uses. Leasing is underway on the first building, which features a clear height of 20 feet, four dock doors and 54 parking spaces. Construction of that building is slated for an early 2025 completion. Phase I of Haywood Business Park delivered 105,000 square feet of product.
EDISON, N.J. — Colliers has brokered the $8 million sale of a 29,000-square-foot warehouse in the Central New Jersey community of Edison. The building at 6 Olsen Ave. includes 3,000 square feet of office space and 100 parking spaces. Jacklene Chesler and Patrick Norris represented the seller in the transaction. Christopher Galiano of NAI DiLeo-Bram represented the buyer, which also plans to occupy the building. Both parties requested anonymity.
SL Nusbaum Brokers $9M Sale of Former James River Transportation Building in Richmond
by John Nelson
RICHMOND, VA. — S.L. Nusbaum Realty Co. has brokered the $9 million sale of an industrial property located at 915 N. Allen Ave. in Richmond. James River Transportation formerly occupied the property, which totals 16,560 square feet situated on 4.3 acres. Jefferson Street Partners II LLC, an affiliate of Academy Bus Lines that acquired James River Transportation last year, was the buyer. Douglas Tice III of S.L. Nusbaum represented the seller, Storyland Properties, in the transaction.
HOUSTON — A partnership between Standard Real Estate Investments, a development and investment firm with offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and locally based firm Investment & Development Ventures (IDV) will develop Veterans Memorial Business Park. The 463,000-square-foot speculative industrial project will be located in northwest Houston and will consist of three front-load buildings that will span 219,000, 151,000 and 93,000 square feet. The buildings will feature 32-foot clear heights and will be able to accommodate users with requirements as small as 46,000 square feet. Construction is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter. JLL arranged the partnership between the two developers.