Industrial

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MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Locally based brokerage firm Citadel Partners has arranged the sale of a 279,180-square-foot logistics facility in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. Scott Jessen and Andy Goldston of Citadel Partners represented the seller and developer, Atlanta-based Core5 Industrial Partners, in the transaction. Dan Spika of Henry S. Miller represented the buyer, United Pacific Industries, which will also occupy the facility. The automotive design and manufacturing firm plans to move in during the second quarter. The sales price was not disclosed.

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MESQUITE, TEXAS — Lowe’s Home Improvement has signed a 78,000-square-foot industrial lease at Landmark at the Meadows, a speculative project that is under construction in the eastern Dallas suburb of Mesquite. The North Carolina-based retailer is taking more than half the space at Building II, which totals 139,319 square feet and features 32-foot clear heights. Kurt Griffin and Nathan Orbin of JLL negotiated the lease on behalf of the landlord, Florida-based Landmark Cos.

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NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS — Holt Lunsford Commercial has negotiated a 51,961-square-foot industrial lease at Corporate Centre at the Crossing in North Richland Hills, a northern suburb of Fort Worth. Matt Carthey and Jake Neal with Holt Lunsford Commercial represented the landlord, Capital Commercial, in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant, third-party logistics firm Con-Way Freight, was not disclosed.

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LAS VEGAS; LOS ANGELES; AND PORTLAND, ORE. — BKM Capital Partners has purchased 10 properties in four recent transactions valued at more than $280 million.  The deals involve more than 1.1 million square feet of light industrial space across 35 buildings in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Portland.  The bulk of the activity occurred in Las Vegas, where BKM significantly expanded its holdings through two off-market transactions involving eight properties totaling nearly 830,000 square feet. The 22 small-bay industrial buildings consist of 321 units and are located near the Las Vegas Strip and McCarran Airport in Clark County’s Southwest submarket. 

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GARDENA, CALIF. — Ingredients distributor Vivion has leased 49,545 square feet at 15500 S. Main Street, Building B in Gardena.  Located in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, the property will be used as Vivion’s regional distribution hub. A subsidiary of Operio Group,  Vivion is an ingredients distributor that specializes in products for application in the solid dose, pharmaceutical, nutritional, food and beverage, cosmetics, personal care, agricultural and industrial markets. The company’s Gardena distribution hub will be 30,000 square feet larger than its current facility in Vernon.  Vivion expects to occupy its new space in June 2023. Grant Huff of Transwestern represented Vivion in the transaction. 

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MAPLE GROVE, MINN. — A joint venture between PCCP and Endeavor Development has begun Phase II of Arbor Lakes Business Park in the Minneapolis suburb of Maple Grove. This second phase includes two buildings totaling 406,000 square feet. The buildings will each feature a clear height of 32 feet along with dock doors, drive-in doors, ample car parking and a shared 180-foot truck court. RJ Ryan is the general contractor. First National Bank of Omaha provided the construction loan. Phase I, which encompasses two buildings totaling 443,097 square feet, is slated for completion soon.

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By Ted Branson, Landmark Commercial Real Estate There continues to be strong demand and a resulting shortage of industrial buildings in Wichita from 1,000 to 100,000 square feet for lease or for sale, not dissimilar from the fierce competition for housing, with prospects paying well above market rates just to keep from losing out “again” on an available property.  With that, Wichita is seeing vacancies continue near 5 to 6 percent, an increase in average lease rates from $4 to $6 per square foot, and average sales prices increasing from $35 to $50 per square foot. New construction prices carry that considerably higher. That demand for space, and the increasing prices that prospects will pay, often leads to land sales and new construction. Many of the supply chain issues that caused construction to take up to two years have been improved or resolved, and several projects are underway. Developers have built several speculative warehouses, most notably in the new ICT21 Industrial Park, the former location of the Derby Oil refinery. Ron and Marty Cornejo did a masterful job of clearing the site of structural obstacles and rendering pollution issues innocuous, with Conco erecting three first-class, tilt-up concrete, high-bay warehouses, with …

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — American Airlines and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport have entered into a use-and-lease agreement that includes $4.8 billion in pre-approved capital investments. The lease term is 10 years. Projects that have been approved under the agreement include the construction of the new Terminal F, the renovation of Terminal C and the expansions of gates at Terminals A and C. The construction of Terminal F, which will have a 15-gate concourse, is expected to cost about $1.6 billion. The expansion of the Central Terminal Area, which will include a major reimagining of Terminal C and gate expansions extending from Terminals A and C, as well as significant upgrades to roadways and terminal access, is valued at roughly $2.7 billion. The deal replaces a 2010 use-and-lease agreement with American Airlines, whose customers account for about 85 percent of the airport’s annual passenger traffic. The airline employs about 35,000 people across the airport and its 300-acre headquarters campus in Fort Worth.

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CARROLLTON, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 37,373-square-foot industrial lease in the northern Dallas metro of Carrollton. According to LoopNet Inc., the property at 2545 Golden Bear Drive was built in 2005 and totals 49,591 square feet. Johnny Anderson and Mark Graybill of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, an entity doing business as SL6 Logistics LP, in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant, packaging and fastener distributor SouthernCarlson, was not disclosed.

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STAFFORD, TEXAS — Zeno Truck Parts has signed a 12,564-square-foot industrial lease renewal and expansion at 4007 Greenbriar Drive in Stafford, a southwestern suburb of Houston. According to commercialcafé.com, the multi-tenant building totals 34,705 square feet and was constructed on 2.1 acres in 1982. Dylan Stiteler of Oxford Partners represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. William Carpenter of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, DRA Advisors.

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