Industrial

JURUPA VALLEY, CALIF. — Intersection Equities and Blue Vista Capital Management have acquired Riverside Business Park, a 122,000-square-foot industrial park in Jurupa Valley, for $19.5 million.  The park contains 30 suites ranging from 1,500 square feet to 11,000 square feet, offering a total of 30 drive-up doors.  Intersection Equities plans to leverage its value-add strategy to make strategic capital improvements aimed at enhancing the attractiveness of the park for both existing and future tenants.  Barret Woods of Lee & Associates represented the seller, Transition Properties, while Stefan Pastor of Stream Realty represented the buyers.

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By Jeremy Spillman and Corey Sedrel, Capstone Commercial In a setting where I-80 and I-35 intersect to make up one of the busiest truck traffic intersections in the Midwest, Des Moines is well positioned to harness the power of manufacturing in Iowa to support several larger Midwest cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis and Omaha.  As we see change in our global supply chains, manufacturers and distributors look to states like Iowa to support these changing environments where we see these organizations moving away from the just-in-time model to just-in-case.  The transition to a just-in-case supply chain model began to form due to several supply chain-related issues we encountered during the pandemic. This led to higher demand for additional warehousing to be constructed.  Availability of large cube warehousing had been historically tight in Iowa since 2012 where most years carried vacancy rates of 2.5 to 4.5 percent annually.  During 2022, there was 2.97 million square feet of warehouse/distribution space delivered to meet the increase in demand of rising inventories.  “From the construction standpoint, supply chain issues are subsiding, but there are still longer than normal lead times for certain trades and equipment. These lead times are still …

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JAMES CITY COUNTY, VA. — Lovett Industrial has acquired 328 acres in James City County, a county between Port of Virginia and I-95 near Williamsburg, Va. The Houston-based developer plans to build Enterprise Logistics Park, a 2.2 million-square-foot industrial park, on the site. In addition to the port and I-95, the speculative development will have direct access to I-64. Design is underway on the park, which will feature a variety of building sizes ranging from 100,000 to 1 million square feet and capabilities from light-industrial to manufacturing, as well as amenity space and conveniences for workers. Lovett plans to break ground in first-quarter 2024. Once completed, Enterprise Logistics Park will be the largest speculative industrial park developed on the I-64 corridor between Norfolk and Richmond, according to Lovett. Geoff Poston and Ellis Colthorpe of Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer will handle marketing and leasing efforts at the park.

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SEATTLE — SecureSpace has acquired Northlynn Mini-Storage in the Lynnwood area of Seattle.  The facility is located at 15620 Highway 99. It contains a total of 57,700 net rentable square feet. The ground-floor units consist of drive-up and interior units, with two dozen rentable parking spaces.  SecureSpace plans a substantial renovation to enhance the appeal of the facility for the 134,000 residents residing within a three-mile radius.  The property will be rebranded as SecureSpace Self Storage Lynnwood, becoming the eighth store under that brand in the Seattle MSA. 

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SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Lee & Associates Orange has leased a freestanding industrial building spanning 40,586 square feet. The lease agreement, which is for more than 60 months, amounts to a total consideration of around $4.3 million.  Located at 1651 E. Saint Andrew Place in Santa Ana, the property offers a ground-level loading door, two dock-high loading doors, 28-foot clear height and 1,200 amps, 277/480V of power.  Greg Diab and Jack Haley of Lee & Associates’ Orange office represented the tenant in the negotiations.

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CONYERS, GA. — Ackerman & Co. has purchased a newly built, 212,232-square-foot distribution center located at 2020 E. Park Drive in Conyers, about 30 miles east of downtown Atlanta. The developer, Dayton Street Partners, sold the property to the locally based developer for an undisclosed price. Built in late 2022, the facility is located in Atlanta’s I-20 East submarket in Rockdale County. The rear-load building features 32-foot clear heights, two drive-in dock doors, more than 200 car parking spaces and a truck court with 41 parking spaces. Brett Buckner and Chris Miller of Ackerman & Co. will direct leasing efforts at the property, which offers options starting at 50,000 square feet.

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HOUSTON — Partners Real Estate has negotiated a 5,000-square-foot industrial lease in northwest Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the property at 12826 Hempstead Road was built in 1979, totals 20,077 square feet and offers four dock doors and two drive-in bays. Devin Hawkins of Partners represented the tenant, Choice Botanicals Inc., in the lease negotiations. Mickey Brown of Bernell & Associates represented the landlord, an entity doing business as RB Warehouses 290.

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ST. PETERS, MO. — Contegra Construction has broken ground on the first of five planned buildings at Lakeside Logistics Center, a $129 million industrial project in St. Peters, a northwest suburb of St. Louis. NorthPoint Development is developing the 190-acre project. The first building, slated for completion by the end of this year, will total 490,000 square feet. It will feature a clear height of 36 feet, 51 dock doors, seven drive-in doors, four office spaces and parking for 490 cars and 134 trailers. Lakeside Logistics Center will ultimately consist of up to five speculative buildings totaling 1.6 million square feet.

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AURORA, ILL. — Colliers has brokered the sale of the I-88 Logistics Center in Aurora for an undisclosed price. Built on a speculative basis by Opus North Development in 2015, the 604,556-square-foot facility features a clear height of 32 feet and parking for 63 trailers. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to Ryder Logistics, whose lease runs through 2027. Jeff Devine and Steve Disse of Colliers represented the seller, an institutional real estate advisor. An undisclosed financial institution purchased the asset.

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SPRING GROVE, ILL. — Entre Commercial Realty has arranged the sale of a 101,323-square-foot industrial building in Spring Grove, a city in Northeast Illinois. The building sits on 10 acres at 3106 N. Route 12. Spring Grove-based All-Rite Spring Co. acquired the facility with plans to consolidate operations from multiple buildings. Dan Jones, Dan Benassi and Sam Deihs of Entre represented the buyer. The sales price and seller were undisclosed.

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