CAROL STREAM AND ELMHURST, ILL. — JLL Capital Markets has negotiated the sales of two Class A industrial assets in Chicago’s North DuPage County submarket for undisclosed prices. Carol Stream Logistics Center in Carol Stream totals 185,796 square feet, while I-290 Distribution Center in Elmhurst spans 150,010 square feet. Kurt Sarbaugh, Ed Halaburt, Sean Devaney and John Huguenard of JLL represented the seller in both transactions. Brian Walsh, Lucas Borges and Matt Stewart of JLL arranged acquisition financing through a life insurance company for I-290 Distribution Center. Constructed in 2020, Carol Stream Logistics Center features a clear height of 32 feet, 190-foot truck court depth, full concrete parking lots, ESFR fire protection and ample trailer parking capacity. The building, situated in the Carol Point Business Center, is fully leased to a single tenant with approximately five years of lease term remaining. Prologis was the buyer. The I-290 Distribution Center, completed in 2022, features a clear height of 32 feet, separate ingress/egress for truck and car traffic, ESFR fire protection, LED motion sensors, a 130-foot truck court, 15 dock-high doors and 138 parking spaces. The property is fully leased to a global packaging manufacturing company.
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BOLINGBROOK, ILL. — Colliers has brokered the sale of a three-building industrial portfolio totaling 187,485 square feet in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook for an undisclosed price. The properties are located on Territorial Drive within the heart of the I-55 Corridor, which links the Joliet intermodal yards to metro Chicago. The buildings are fully leased to two tenants with a weighted average lease term just under two years. Jeff Devine, Steve Disse and Tyler Ziebel of Colliers represented the seller, an institutional real estate investor. The buyer was an institutional real estate private equity fund.
DALLAS — Grey Swan I, a general partner equity fund backed by North Texas-based development and investment firm M2G Ventures, has purchased a two-building, 150,000-square-foot industrial portfolio in southwest Dallas. The multi-tenant, shallow-bay buildings are situated on a seven-acre site at 4647 Mint Way. According to LoopNet Inc., the site is located within Mint Way Business Park, and the buildings were constructed in 1975 and feature 20-foot clear heights. Chase Miller of NAI Robert Lynn represented M2G Ventures in the transaction. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — A partnership between Hopewell Development and MBK Industrial Properties has broken ground on Lakeside Business Center, a 123,910-square-foot building in Flower Mound, a city located in the northern-central part of the metroplex. Lakeside Business Center will consist of two buildings with 32-foot clear heights, a 200-foot shared truck court, ESFR sprinkler systems and a total 16 dock doors and two ramped doors. Lee & Associates is marketing the development for lease and/or sale. Completion is scheduled for summer 2025.
HOUSTON — Alterra IOS has acquired two industrial outdoor storage sites totaling 7.2 acres in the eastern Houston suburb of Baytown. The sites at 8121 and 8223 Parkside Ave. are located within Bay 10 Business Park and house a combined 50,000 square feet of warehouse space. Lee & Associates brokered the sale. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Alterra IOS plans to make capital improvements into the sites, including adding speculative office space and a reinforced concrete yard at 8121 Parkside.
BAYONNE, N.J. — Locally based developer Lincoln Equities Group has completed a 332,640-square-foot speculative industrial project in Northern New Jersey. Lincoln Logistics Bayonne sits on a 24-acre tract within a 153-acre waterfront site that also houses an 886,256-square-foot UPS shipping hub. In addition to a clear height of 40 feet and 66 dock doors, the property features five acres of parking space that can support 195 trailers and 225 cars, or 45 trailers and 800 cars. Construction began in May 2022. Cushman & Wakefield is marketing the project for lease.
CYNTHIANA, KY. — NAI Isaac has arranged the sale of a 100,000-square-foot industrial facility located at 736 US Highway 27 in Cynthiana, roughly 30 miles northeast of Lexington. Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Herdegen Commercial Equipment LLC, a liquidator of corporate equipment and other fixed assets, purchased the facility for an undisclosed price. Bruce Isaac of NAI Isaac represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. According to LoopNet Inc., the facility is a single-tenant building that was delivered on a 7.5-acre site in 1964. The property features 19-foot clear heights, two dock doors and four drive-in doors. The acquisition also includes a separate 7,000-square-foot facility at the site.
EASTON, PA. — NAI Summit has arranged the $3 million sale of the historic former Crayola warehouse and distribution center in the Lehigh Valley community of Easton. Originally built in the 1890s as a manufacturing facility by Crayola predecessor Binney & Smith, the property consists of four buildings totaling 94,000 square feet on an 8.9-acre site. Matt Sprung of NAI Summit represented the seller, an out-of-state investor, in the deal. A local developer purchased the property with plans to implement a residential conversion.
LAFAYETTE, N.J. — The Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges will open a 10,200-square-foot pickleball facility in the Northern New Jersey community of Lafayette. The six-court facility will be located within a freestanding industrial flex building at 11 Millpond Drive and is expected to open in November. John Schilp of NAI James E. Hanson represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. HQW Architects is designing the space, and Berardi Building Co. is handling the build-out.
CHICAGO — Chicago-based Logistics Property Co. LLC has received a $205 million permanent loan from PGIM Real Estate. The loan included five projects within the firm’s first develop-to-core fund, LPC Logistics Venture One LP. The five projects total nearly 2.7 million square feet across seven buildings. Frederickson ONE, Building 4 and Building 7 are in the Seattle market, 94 Logistics Park is in the Chicago market and Logistics 83 and North Penn Logistics Center are in the Southeast Pennsylvania/New Jersey market.