KANSAS CITY, MO. — Vertical Cold Storage, a developer and operator of temperature-controlled distribution centers sponsored by real estate investment firm Platform Ventures, has broken ground on a 300,000-square-foot facility in south Kansas City. The facility is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2024 and employ up to 130 full-time team members. The project site is located adjacent to the CPKC intermodal terminal. The property will offer roughly 50,000 pallet positions, blast freezing technology and four rooms convertible to -20 degrees Fahrenheit. Primus Builders is the general contractor.
ROSSFORD, OHIO — Colliers has arranged the sale of a 182,000-square-foot distribution center in Rossford near Toledo for an undisclosed price. UPS Mail Innovations Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of UPS Inc., occupies the facility on a new seven-year double net lease with two five-year renewal options. Located at 29940 Glenwood Road directly off I-75, the newly built property features a clear height of 32 feet and 32 dock doors. Alex Cantu and Alex Davenport of Colliers represented the buyer, an entity doing business as Congaree River LLC. Scannell Properties, which developed the facility in 2022, was the seller.
BLOOMINGTON, MINN. — A joint venture between Clear Height Properties and Harbert US Real Estate has acquired a 121,684-square-foot industrial property in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. Located at 9201 E. Bloomington Freeway, the complex is home to 14 tenants. The facility features 20 dock-high doors and five drive-in doors. Bentley Smith and Judd Welliver of CBRE brokered the transaction. The sales price and seller were undisclosed.
SANTA FE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a portfolio of four self-storage facilities totaling 682 units in Santa Fe, located southeast of Houston in Galveston County. The Santa Fe Storage Portfolio spans 4.3 acres and consists of 17 single-story buildings and one two-story building that house 654 non-climate-controlled units and 24 outdoor parking spaces. The portfolio also features two office spaces, a billboard and an efficiency apartment for a total of 682 rentable spaces. Dave Knobler and Charles LeClaire of Marcus & Millichap represented the Texas-based seller and procured the Delaware-based buyer in the transaction. Both parties were limited liability companies that requested anonymity.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Newmark has negotiated a 50,000-square-foot industrial lease at Riverbend Business Park in northeast Fort Worth. The development spans approximately 1.4 million square feet across 32 buildings. Frank Puskarich and Louis Pascuzzi of Newmark represented the tenant, foam products provider Neveon USA, in the lease negotiations. Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord.
HOUSTON — Canadian water treatment firm H20 Innovation has signed a 24,500-square-foot industrial flex lease in Houston. The company will relocate to Building 1 at Old Town Spring Business Park, a 196,000-square-foot development located on the city’s north side, later this month. Nathan Donahue of Transwestern represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Todd Jurek of Keen Realty Group represented the undisclosed landlord.
IRVING, TEXAS — Henry S. Miller Cos. has arranged the sale of a 19,470-square-foot warehouse that sits on a 1.4-acre site at 205 Sharon Road in Irving. According to LoopNet Inc., the building was constructed in 1959, renovated in 1980 and features a 21-foot clear height. Adair Fant and Nicholas Robinson of Henry S. Miller represented the buyer, elevator parts provider Sees Inc., in the transaction. Additional terms of sale were not disclosed.
RENO, NEV. — Westcore has purchased a distribution facility within the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Reno from an undisclosed seller for $82.5 million. Situated on 34 acres at 700 Milan Drive, the cross-loaded property features 632,130 square feet of distribution space, more than 200 trailer stalls, LEED Gold certification, ESFR sprinklers, energy-efficient lighting and recycled steel. At the time of sale, the facility was fully leased. The property offers one-day truck service to seven states and proximity to Reno Tahoe International Airport and Union Pacific Intermodal Hub. The asset is adjacent to Gigafactory Nevada, Tesla’s $6.2 billion electric vehicle plant in the area.
EL MIRAGE, ARIZ. — Melbourne, Fla.-based Ti Cold, as designer and builder, has completed the construction of Phoenix Cold Storage Facility, a nearly 300,000-square-foot cold storage property in El Mirage, approximately 20 miles northwest of Phoenix. Arcadia Cold Storage and Logistics fully occupies the property, which serves as the company’s hub for the Southwest United States with access to key metropolitan markets in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. The fully racked facility features five fully convertible rooms with the ability to handle frozen and chilled temperatures from negative 10 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit; 60-foot-deep refrigerated dock; and doors to manage distribution and handling services. The property also features 40,500 pallet positions situated in a 50-foot clear height rooms and utilizes the ALTA EXPERT Industrial Freon Refrigeration System. This facility represents one of the first large-scale, third-party logistics cold storage facilities in the Phoenix market.
BURLINGTON, N.J. — United Fulfillment Solutions Inc. has signed a 217,986-square-foot industrial lease in the Southern New Jersey community of Burlington. The e-commerce company will occupy the entirety of Building 1 at Rancocas 5 Industrial Park, which features a clear height of 36 feet, 42 loading docks, 183 car parking spaces and 28 trailer drops. Nate Demetsky, Dean Torosian and Matt Kemery of JLL represented the landlord, regional developer Endurance Real Estate Group, in the lease negotiations. Allen Ding of Visionaire Real Estate represented the tenant.