NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based Simone Development Cos. has purchased a retail building in the Morris Park area of The Bronx with plans to convert the property into a 186,298-square-foot industrial facility. The site at 1720 Eastchester Road, which previously housed a 63,000-square-foot Stop & Shop grocery store, liquor store and a Subway restaurant, is adjacent to Hutchinson Metro Center, Simone’s 1.4 million-square-foot mixed-use development. Jonathan Squires and Josh King of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Madison International Realty, in the transaction. Megan Guy, Brian Reardon, Josh Gopan, Dina Gupta and Sean Heneghan represented Simone Development on an internal basis.
CONROE, TEXAS — Colliers has brokered the sale of a 43,200-square-foot, single-tenant industrial building in Conroe, about 40 miles north of Houston. The site spans 9.9 acres and fronts I-45. Michelle Soderberg of Colliers represented the seller, an entity doing business as JMBG Ltd., in the transaction. Wade Nelson of Nelson Properties represented the buyer, Spring Glass & Mirror Ltd., which will use the building as its new headquarters. The sales price was not disclosed.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 26,082-square-foot industrial lease in Arlington. According to LoopNet Inc., the building at 2030 E. Arbrook Blvd. was constructed in 2019 and totals 75,712 square feet. Reid Bassinger and Michael Lee of Lee & Associates represented the tenant, US Elogistics Service Corp., in the lease negotiations. Mark Graybill, also with Lee & Associates, represented the landlord, Mississippi-based EastGroup Properties Inc.
DORAL, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 131,411-square-foot industrial lease at Bridge Point Doral, a 175-acre industrial park in Doral, a suburb of Miami. The tenant, an unnamed Fortune 50 food distributor, will fully occupy Building 6 upon its completion in mid-2024. Multiple media outlets are reporting that the tenant is snack giant Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. Wayne Ramoski, Gian Rodriguez, Skylar Stein and Ivanna Leitner Perez of Cushman & Wakefield represented the developer and owner, Bridge Industrial, in the lease negotiations. Jeff Hartsook and Adam Talbot of Cresa represented the tenant. Bridge Point Doral will ultimately span 2.6 million square feet, the first phase of which will feature 1.2 million square feet.
MICHIGAN CITY, IND. — StorSafe is expanding its self-storage facility in Michigan City by 10,665 square feet with an additional 82 climate-controlled units. The project also includes a new onsite water management system to collect and clean stormwater coupled with a loading dock for semi-trucks and moving vans. After the expansion, the facility will include 384 climate-controlled units. The property is located at 2600 S. Franklin St. in Northwest Indiana. StorSafe, established in 2021, offers mobile technology, advanced management software, online tools, facility automation and state-of-the-art security equipment.
Principle Construction to Build 22,245 SF Maintenance Facility for Alvil Trucking in Elgin, Illinois
ELGIN, ILL. — Principle Construction Corp. is building a 22,245-square-foot warehouse for Alvil Trucking in Elgin. The trucking company will use the building at 2450 Millennium Drive for maintenance and repairs of its fleet. The project will feature a clear height of 24 feet, 48 parking spaces, six docks and two drive-in doors. Harris Architects is the project architect, and Jacob & Hefner is the civil engineer. The project marks the second building that Principle has constructed for Alvil.
North Carolina taxes both real estate and personal property, but differing valuation schedules and processes for the two types can lead to confusion and inflated tax bills for industrial property owners. Understanding how assessors value industrial properties can help those taxpayers detect issues and contest unfair assessments. Dual processes North Carolina requires assessors to revalue real property at least every eight years. The value as of Jan. 1 of the valuation year then remains constant until the next valuation, unless specified changes in the property occur to trigger a change in the assessment. Many counties revalue every four years, and a few, even more frequently. Assessors use a market analysis to determine real property’s taxable or fair market value. This involves applying one or more of the three valuation approaches: cost, comparable sales, or income. The state requires annual valuation of personal property based on installed cost, which is subject to the applicable trending and depreciation schedules. For the most part, taxing authorities rely on the taxpayer’s annual business personal property listing to determine what items of personal property are present, the installed cost, and the trending and depreciation schedule applied. The counties follow schedules for auditing the property tax …
YOUNGSVILLE, N.C. — Summit Real Estate Group has broken ground on US-1 North Commerce Center, a $164 million industrial park underway in Youngsville, about 25 miles north of Raleigh. The St. Louis-based developer is planning to build the nearly 1.4 million-square-foot campus in three phases. Situated off U.S. Highway 1 along Long Mill Road, US-1 North Commerce Center will span five multi-tenant warehouse buildings upon full build-out. Phase I, which will comprise two facilities, is expected to be delivered in first-quarter 2024. Summit Real Estate Group purchased the 106-acre site in fourth-quarter 2022 on behalf of its Arrowrock US Industrial Fund IV. Matthew Lederman, managing director of capital and investor relations at Summit, says that the project has had strong civic support since its inception. “Franklin County government has been a strong supporter of the project since the beginning,” says Lederman. Foundry Commercial is marketing US-1 North Commerce Center for lease. — John Nelson
— By Nellie Day — Everyone is tired of hearing about the challenging lending climate — no one more so than investors and developers who would like to keep the gravy train moving. “I think the glory days of the last four to five years are now tempered with the increased interest rates,” says Jordan Schnitzer, president of Portland, Ore.-headquartered Schnitzer Properties. “I also believe the hyper growth of big box industrial developments over 500,000 square feet is grinding to a slower halt. A significant amount of that growth has been from Walmart, Amazon and other large retailers that now may have enough space for the next several years before they enter a growth phase again.” So, what’s an industrial player to do when interest rates are high and the industry darlings that have been so active for so long now say their needs have been met? You pivot. “While it’s easier to collect a single check from a 500,000-square-foot tenant, we would rather roll up our sleeves and work harder to get 50 tenants from a 500,000-square-foot building,” Schnitzer continues. New Strategies For A New Era Schnitzer notes that his firm began to see cap rate compression on Western-based industrial …
HOPKINSVILLE, KY. — Toyota Boshoku America, a Toyota supplier based in Erlanger, Ky., will invest $225 million in the development of a new automotive parts manufacturing facility in Hopkinsville, a city in southwest Kentucky. Upon completion, the 327,000-square-foot property will be situated on 48 acres within the South Park Development. Construction began in June, and operations are scheduled to begin at the facility in 2025. The project is expected to create 157 jobs. Additionally, Toyota Motor North America announced last week that it has entered into a $3 billion partnership agreement with LG Energy Solution for lithium-ion battery modules to be used in Toyota battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Under terms of the arrangement, the modules will be produced by LG at its Michigan facility and will support Toyota’s expanding line of BEVs, including a new model that will be assembled at the Toyota Manufacturing Kentucky plant in Georgetown, Ky., in 2025.