TEXARKANA, TEXAS — Renew Trucks has signed a 2,604-square-foot industrial lease expansion at TexAmericas Center, a 12,000-acre mixed-use and industrial park located near the Arkansas-Texas border in Texarkana. The site spans 2.3 acres at 139 Miller St. and is adjacent to Renew’s existing facility. The deal brings the company’s total footprint at TexAmericas Center to 16,673 square feet.
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIF. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $130 million in first-lien financing for a 21-property industrial portfolio in Southern California. Greg Brown, Allie Black and Nick Englhard of JLL Capital Markets secured the five-year, fixed-rate loan through an insurance company on behalf of the borrower, Sukut Real Properties. Totaling 1.1 million square feet, the portfolio includes 17 industrial buildings, a self-storage facility, an industrial outdoor storage property, a medical property and a flex office/industrial building. Built from 1968 to 2016, the properties span San Diego County, Orange County, Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire.
CANBY, ORE. — Trammell Crow Co. (TCC) and Affinius Capital have broken ground on Sequoia Logistics Center, a Class A speculative logistics facility in Canby, approximately 20 miles south of Portland. Slated for completion by January 2027, the 778,720-square-foot Sequoia Logistics Center will feature 4,000 amps of power capacity, 143 loading docks, 224 trailer spaces and 798 auto parking spaces. Project partners include Mackenzie as architect and Perlo Construction as general contractor. Teams from KBC Advisors in Seattle and Kidder Mathews in Portland, Ore., are marketing the project for lease.
KENOSHA, WIS. — McShane Construction Co. will build a 174,367-square-foot manufacturing build-to-suit project in Kenosha. The undisclosed tenant will utilize the space for manufacturing and warehousing metal products. Positioned on an 86-acre site, the precast building will include 77,100 square feet of manufacturing space and 52,500 square feet of warehouse space with a clear height of 40 feet, 10 truck docks and four drive-in doors. The building will also feature 9,000 square feet of office space and 171 parking stalls. As part of the project, McShane will build a bridge, bringing railroad tracks to the site. Completion is slated for June 2026. Harris Architects Inc. is the project architect.
HOUSTON — In the span of eight months — a blip in the life cycles of most commercial real estate deals and projects — lenders in the Houston industrial space have gone from enthusiastic to tepid to back to borderline optimistic. This pendulum-like pattern that has reflected the vacillating appetites of capital providers to deploy funds is not unique to the Houston industrial market. At the start of the year, commercial lenders across a range of asset classes and markets expressed positive expectations for 2025. A new, pro-business presidential administration, the building on short-term interest rate cuts in late 2024, a widespread sense that it was simply time to get back into the game — all of these notions played into an ebullient outlook for commercial deal volume in the new year. Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a division of France Media Inc., produces networking and educational conferences for commercial real estate executives. To sign up for email announcements about specific events, visit www.interfaceconferencegroup.com/subscribe. It would not last very long. Unconventional, sweeping policies implemented by the second Trump administration, including mass layoffs of federal employees and implementation of tariffs on major American trading partners, deeply rattled investors and capital providers. Even as the administration …
GALVESTON, TEXAS — An American affiliate of Canadian shipbuilder Davie will open a $1 billion ‘icebreaker’ factory in the southeastern coastal Texas city of Galveston, according to reports from multiple publications that cover that industry, including The Maritime Executive and Marine Insight. According to the former publication, the factory will be located within the city’s Gulf Copper Yard and will be purpose-built for manufacturing ships for the U.S. Department of Defense and its polar exploration initiatives. The latter publication reports that Davie is developing the factory in partnership with Pearlson, a Florida-based specialist in shipyard design and program management. Marine Insight also reports that the project could support more than 7,000 jobs across Texas and have a regional economic impact of about $9 billion.
HOUSTON — Crow Holdings Development is underway on construction of Rushcreek Business Park, a 446,123-square-foot industrial project in North Houston. The development will consist of two front-load buildings that will span 137,588 and 308,535 square feet. The buildings will feature 32- and 36-foot clear heights, respectively, and a combined 101 dock-high doors, six drive-in ramps and 259 car parking spaces. CBRE has been tapped as the leasing agent. Construction is slated for a summer 2026 completion.
BAYTOWN, TEXAS — Locally based developer BCS has broken ground on Grove Business Park, a 438,960-square-foot industrial project that will be located in the eastern Houston suburb of Baytown. The site spans 46 acres, and the development will feature nine buildings that will range in size from 30,000 to 120,120 square feet. Urban Cos. has been selected as the design-build firm for the project, and Altar Group will be the civil engineer. Partners Real Estate is the leasing agent. Completion is slated for the third quarter of 2026.
HOUSTON — Stream Realty Partners has arranged a 36,340-square-foot industrial lease expansion at 7121 Brittmoore Road in northwest Houston. Information on the property was not available on LoopNet Inc. Garret Geaccone, Boone Smith and Jack Rathe of Stream represented the landlord, DRA Advisors, in the lease negotiations. Nile Copeland of World Wide Realty represented the tenant, ChiChi Trade.
ADDISON, TEXAS — Emultec Inc. has signed an 18,675-square-foot industrial lease renewal in the northern Dallas metro of Addison. The provider of distribution services will remain a tenant at Building 1 at Marsh Business Park West. Brian Pafford of Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services represented the landlord, GKI Industrial LLC, in the lease negotiations. The tenant representative was not disclosed.