CORONA, CALIF. — BDK Logistics Intelligence has signed a deal to lease an entire industrial facility located at 1161 Olympic Drive in Corona. Monterey Rancho Mirage LLC owns the property. Terms of the lease were not released. Situated on 4.8 acres, the 114,190-square-foot building features 20 dock-high loading doors. Brett Lockwood and Rick Ellison of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord in the lease.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Holt Lunsford Commercial has negotiated a 54,552-square-foot industrial lease in the Blue Mound/Saginaw area of Fort Worth. Blake Rogers of JLL represented the tenant, Strato Inc., a manufacturer of various industrial parts, in the lease negotiations. George Jennings, Trey Goodspeed and William Wilson of Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Blue Ridge Industrial.
DALLAS — Fort Worth-based brokerage firm LanCarte Commercial has arranged the sale of a 50,138-square-foot industrial property located at 11126 Shady Trail Parkway in northwest Dallas. The property consists of three buildings that house 18 units on a 2.9-acre site. Sarah LanCarte of LanCarte Commercial represented the undisclosed seller, which acquired the property in 2020 and implemented a value-add program, in the transaction. The buyer and sales price were also not disclosed.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — CBRE has brokered the portfolio sale of two industrial properties in Jacksonville totaling nearly 1.4 million square feet. Dallas-based Hillwood Investment Properties purchased the portfolio from Atlanta-based Invesco Real Estate for an undisclosed price. Jose Lobon, Trey Barry, Frank Fallon, Royce Rose, Alain Bonvecchio and Ben Stewart of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The properties include a 772,210-square-foot facility at 1200 Presidents Court that is leased to Unilever. Built in 2008, the property features 32-foot clear heights, 90 dock doors, ESFR sprinklers, 186 car parking spaces and 255 trailer parking spaces. The other asset is a 601,500-square-foot facility located at 2300 Pickettville Road that is leased to Keurig Dr. Pepper. Built in 2009, the building features 32-foot clear heights, 128 dock doors, ESFR sprinklers, 326 car parking spaces and 118 trailer parking spaces. Both facilities feature cross-dock loading and are situated in Jacksonville’s Westside industrial submarket.
VIOLET TOWNSHIP, OHIO — DHL Supply Chain has broken ground on a new 755,000-square-foot distribution center in Violet Township, an eastern suburb of Columbus. The facility, which will be located near DHL Supply Chain’s U.S. headquarters in Westerville, is slated to open in the second quarter of 2024 and create approximately 200 jobs in the region. The project brings DHL’s total footprint to more than 15 million square feet in its home state and 161 million square feet in North America. The Violet Township facility will leverage the latest robotics technology and automation processes as well as sustainable building planning and construction. DHL Supply Chain’s expansion of its warehousing footprint is led by DHL Real Estate Solutions.
ETNA, OHIO — The I-70 Logistics Center, located at 9157 Mink St. SW in the Columbus suburb of Etna, has traded hands for an undisclosed price. Hines Global Income Trust Inc. was the buyer. The 700,000-square-foot property is fully leased to a third-party logistics provider and features a clear height of 40 feet. The facility offers convenient access to two rail providers, reaching roughly 60 percent of the North American population within a one-day drive. Ed Halaburt and Ross Bratcher of JLL represented the seller, Core5 Industrial Partners.
By John Cassidy and Calvin Gunn, Lee & Associates If you love a good groundbreaking photo — full of shiny shovels, hard hats and smiling development teams — you may be disappointed this year, for all the best reasons. With Chicago’s most recent wave of speculative industrial projects currently being delivered, the market now actually has space to offer industrial tenants — a refreshing change from the past few years. With construction costs and interest rates continuing to rise and credit availability shrinking, many developers with ties to Chicago are pausing new projects as exit cap rates are becoming more difficult to predict. At the same time, market fundamentals are starting to cool from the pandemic-era eruption of demand. The good news: Chicago’s industrial market may be down from the clouds, but it’s still historically quite healthy. Vacancy rate in perspective According to Lee & Associates of Illinois’ second-quarter industrial snapshot, construction deliveries caused the Chicago industrial vacancy rate to tick upward for the second consecutive quarter. However, a 3.68 percent vacant market is still considered a historically low vacancy environment. As a comparison, that vacancy rate measured about 12 percent at the end of 2009 and 6.6 percent in …
Due diligence — particularly land surveying — can be a slow, cumbersome process if a project lacks strong guidelines based on the owner or developer’s particular needs. It can be easy to overprepare for the wrong site or underprepare for the succession of steps needed for the right site. REBusiness spoke to two land surveying experts, Billy Logsdon, divisional director of surveying, and Tom Teabo, associate and regional survey manager. Both work for Bohler, a land development consulting and site design firm, and both have strong insights on how to incorporate each step in the due diligence process elegantly within a well-planned approach. Due diligence such as American Land Title Association (ALTA) surveys and gathering topographic information can be time-consuming and expensive steps — making it beneficial to fit their timing into the larger project in a way that reflects the client’s needs — from the purchase of land to development completion. Logsdon and Teabo highlight the importance of streamlining the survey process and getting owners and developers better results based on their desired outcomes, often starting with the information already available about the site early in the process. REBusiness: What is slowing down survey due diligence, in your experience, and do …
ROCKDALE, TEXAS — Dallas-based developer Xebec will build a 3,300-acre manufacturing and logistics campus in Rockdale, located about 60 miles northeast of Austin. The rail-served site is known locally as Sandow Lakes Ranch and was previously used for aluminum smelting, lignite coal mining and coal power generation. The campus, which will ultimately feature between 30 million and 50 million square feet of manufacturing and logistics space, represents the first phase of multi-stage development that will include workforce housing, solar farms, retail, commercial, industrial and hospitality uses, as well as recreational facilities. Xebec expects to the development to be ready for occupancy by mid-2025.
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — Talley Riggins Construction Group has expanded its headquarters facility at Campbell Creative Center, a 96,991-square-foot industrial flex property located in the northeastern Dallas suburb of Richardson. The general contractor now occupies 13,858 square feet after signing a co-terminus lease for 3,832 square feet of contiguous space. Jared Laake and Brian Pafford of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented the landlord, an entity doing business as Kennington Campbell LLC, in the lease negotiations. Chris Wright of JLL represented Talley Riggins.
