HOUSTON — Silver Star Properties REIT Inc., an entity formerly known as Hartman Short Term Income Properties XX Inc., has sold a 12-building, 377,752-square-foot industrial flex property in northwest Houston. Silver Star Properties originally acquired the property, which was built in 1977, in 2014. The property was 95 percent leased at the time of sale. An affiliate of Partners Real Estate, the Houston-based investment and brokerage firm formerly known as NAI Partners, purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. Origin Bank provided financing for the off-market transaction.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS — Self-storage brokerage firm Versal has negotiated the sale of U Store, a 270-unit facility in Corpus Christi. The property, which comprises 75,835 net rentable square feet of non-climate-controlled space, includes six retail spaces and was fully occupied at the time of sale. Bill Bellomy, Michael Johnson, Logan Foster and Hugh Horne of Versal represented the seller, a Texas-based limited liability company, in the transaction. The team also procured the Texas-based buyer.
SELMA, TEXAS — Westport Axle Co., a provider of automotive assembly services, has signed a 115,760-square-foot industrial lease at Building 2 at Selma Industrial Park, located on the northeastern outskirts of San Antonio. Delivered in July 2022, Selma 2 is a 305,760-square-foot, cross-dock facility that features 36-foot clear heights, 74 dock-high doors and four drive-in ramps. Jon Dandurand with Burr & Temkin represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. John Colglazier, Carlos Marquez and Kyle Kennan of Partners Real Estate represented the landlord, a partnership between Titan Development and Atlanta-based Robinson Weeks Partners.
By Tyler Ziebel, Colliers Following one of the most active and aggressive periods in Chicago’s industrial capital markets history, 2022 ended as a year most market participants would rather forget. As the buying community returned to their desks and fastened their seatbelts for another year of fun in 2023, industrial sales brokers across the country are starting the year posed with a question from investors that hasn’t been asked in some time: “What are we going to be able to buy this year?” It’s easy to assume that investors will remain content to sit out of the turbulent market, but the answer to where we are, and aren’t, seeing liquidity requires a nuanced answer. In order to do that, we must take a quick look at 2022 and what set this uncertain market in motion. After several record-setting years for industrial leasing and sales in 2020 and 2021, accelerated by the COVID pandemic and a historically low interest rate environment, 2022 opened with the same frenzied pace and enthusiasm of 2021. But as the Federal Reserve pivoted its focus from keeping the economy stable to taming the resulting inflation, rapidly rising interest rates grounded institutional industrial transactions and development deals …
HOUSTON — Locally based developer Vault Partners has begun construction on a 185,250-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in South Houston. The rear-load building will be divisible up to 40,000 square feet and will feature 32-foot clear heights, 34 dock-high doors, two drive-in ramps, and parking spaces for 137 vehicles and 23 trailers. Stream Realty Partners has been tapped as the leasing agent. Shell delivery of the building is scheduled for the fourth quarter.
NEW YORK CITY — JLL has negotiated the $23 million sale of an industrial property in the Long Island City area of Queens. The site currently houses a 55,000-square-foot warehouse and is zoned for an additional 320,000 square feet of new development. The existing facility features a clear height of 17 feet, three overhead drive-in doors and private office space. Michael Mazzara, Ethan Stanton, Winfield Clifford, Stephen Palmese and Brendan Maddigan of JLL represented the seller, New York City-based Titan Contracting Corp., in the transaction. The buyer was San Francisco-based Terreno Realty Corp. A construction timeline for the next phase of development was not disclosed.
JONESTOWN, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a portfolio of two self-storage facilities totaling 266 units in Jonestown, about 23 miles northeast of Harrisburg. The facilities, both of which were recently renovated, offer a total of 42,380 net rentable square feet of non-climate-controlled space. Luke Dawley, Nathan Coe, Brett Hatcher and Gabriel Coe of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. Sean Beuche of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the deal as the broker of record. Additional terms of sale were not disclosed.
WHITELAND, IND. — Mohr Capital has completed the development of an 846,260-square-foot industrial facility at its Mohr Logistics Park in the Indianapolis suburb of Whiteland. The property at 5365 N. Graham Road features a clear height of 40 feet. So far, one tenant has signed a lease for 513,000 square feet. A lease for the remaining space is currently under negotiation. Both tenants are expected to occupy the building this summer. The project team included Pepper Construction, Curran Architecture and American Structurepoint. Mark Writt of CBRE handles the leasing.
BROOKLYN PARK, MINN. — Sealy & Co. has acquired a newly constructed industrial building totaling 221,128 square feet in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park. The purchase price was undisclosed. Located at 10600 Xylon Ave. N., the facility is fully leased to multiple tenants. The property features a clear height of 32 feet, 50 dock-high doors, two drive-in doors and abundant auto and trailer parking. Jason Gandy and Davis Gibbs represented Sealy on an internal basis. Scannell Properties was the seller.
LOS ANGELES — A fund sponsored by CBRE Investment Management has acquired a portfolio of 14 self-storage assets located in Southern California and Utah that totals 8,697 units. The fund now owns 100 self-storage properties across the U.S., totaling 55,477 units. The seller and price were not disclosed. The self-storage assets, which will operate under the StorQuest brand, are primarily single-story, drive-up units in the key infill markets of Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, San Diego and Salt Lake City. The portfolio includes a mix of indoor, climate-controlled units and outdoor units. The properties are currently 95 percent leased. Nick Walker of CBRE’s National Self Storage Advisory Group represented the seller in the transaction. Tom Traynor and James Millon of CBRE’s Large Loans division, along with Talonvest, arranged the financing in the transaction.