CLIFTON, N.J. — Lee & Associates has brokered the sale of a 20,000-square-foot warehouse in the Northern New Jersey community of Clifton. The building at 25 Styertowne Road is a single-tenant property that was fully leased to food manufacturer Pereg Gourmet at the time of sale. Josh Krantz of Lee & Associates represented the seller, New Jersey-based Kessler-Schwartz Associates, and procured the undisclosed buyer in the off-market deal.
Industrial
Beacon, HM Partners Ink 363,200 SF of Industrial Leases at Beacon Commerce Park in Metro Raleigh
by John Nelson
GARNER, N.C. — Beacon Partners and HM Partners have signed four leases with separate tenants in the past 60 days at Beacon Commerce Park, a 48-acre industrial park in the Raleigh suburb of Garner. Situated within one mile of I-40 and 6.5 miles from downtown Raleigh, the park will span 631,000 square feet upon completion and feature clear heights ranging from 30 to 36 feet and full concrete truck courts. The four leases included Greentech Renewables-Solar Distribution, an affiliate of Consolidated Electrical Distributors, leasing 68,700 square feet at Building 3, a 260,000-square-foot facility. Also coming to Building 3 is an undisclosed tenant taking 164,956 square feet. At Building 1, Alcami Corp. will occupy 65,002 square feet, and an undisclosed third-party logistics firm will take 64,549 square feet. Ann Stewart Patterson and Austin Nagy of CBRE | Raleigh represented the landlord in all four lease transactions.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — New York-based brokerage firm Keen-Summit Capital Partners has arranged the $102.2 million bankruptcy sale of a portfolio of 13 office buildings, which are collectively known as Braker Metric Business Park, and one retail strip center in Austin. The sales price represents a cap rate of 5.7 percent. According to the Austin Business Journal, the portfolio was previously owned by locally based investment firm World Class Holdings. The buyer was MIG Real Estate Partners. The office component totals 544,497 square feet, and the retail property spans 15,302 square feet. The properties are located at the intersections of West Braker Lane, Kramer Lane and Metric Boulevard on the city’s north-central side.
SAN ANTONIO — Cold Creek Solutions, a cold storage developer based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, has sold a roughly 300,000-square-foot facility located at the intersection of I-10 and Loop 410 in San Antonio. The newly built facility features convertible spaces with temperatures ranging from -20 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit to accommodate a range of food uses. Additional building features include 48-foot clear heights, 45,000 pallet positions and 6,000 square feet of office space. ARCO National Construction served as the general contractor for the project.
HOUSTON — Stream Realty Partners has completed Raceway Northwest Distribution Center, a 156,483-square-foot speculative industrial project in northwest Houston. The front-load building features 36-foot clear heights, 35 dock-high doors, 109 car parking spaces and 22 trailer parking stalls. In addition, Raceway Northwest Distribution Center offers office space, fully fenced truck courts and quick access to the Sam Houston Tollway and U.S. Highway 290. Stream is also the project’s leasing agent.
HOUSTON — Cypressbrook Co. has negotiated the sale of a 25,000-square-foot industrial building that sits on a two-acre site within Central Green Business Park in North Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the single-tenant property at 1950 S. Starpoint Drive was built in 1982. John Hornbuckle of Cypressbrook Co. represented the seller, LuAnn Houston Properties, in the transaction. Wes Cole of Rubicon Representation represented the buyer, an entity doing business as Coral Sea Holdco LLC.
DALLAS — An undisclosed, international aviation firm has signed a 23,040-square-foot industrial lease at PROTO Park, a 250,000-square-foot industrial facility in the Brookhollow neighborhood of Dallas. Sarah Ozanne and Lena Pierce of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, a partnership between Dallas-based M2G Ventures and Austin-based Pennybacker Capital, in the lease negotiations. Ryan Buchanan of CBRE represented the tenant. PROTO Park is now 90 percent leased.
PLAINSBORO, N.J. — Locally based brokerage firm Fennelly Associates has negotiated the $7.7 million sale of an industrial property in Plainsboro, about 50 miles southwest of Manhattan. The facility, which sits on a 31-acre site and totals 50,150 square feet, was originally built in 1957 as a nuclear research facility and subsequently used for pharmaceutical research and development. Jerry Fennelly and Matt Fennelly of Fennelly Associates represented the seller, Turkey Island Corp., in the transaction and procured the buyer, Princeton Life Science Park.
SANTA ANA, CALIF. — Dunleer, a Los Angeles-based private real estate investment and development firm, has completed the disposition of a 2.5-acre industrial outdoor storage parcel that includes a single-story building, located at 4404 W. First St. in Santa Ana. The City of Santa Ana acquired the asset for $10.5 million and plans to use the property for city-related public services. The property features a fenced and secured yard area, a 3,900-square-foot building and quick access to interstates 5 and 405. Keith Greer, Ben Seybold, Sean Ward and Joshua Samuels of CBRE represented Dunleer, while the buyer was self-represented in the transaction.
AURORA, COLO. — Newmark has arranged the sale of Valet Living, an industrial property located at 15761 E. Centretech Parkway in Aurora. Brandev LLC sold the building to TenBar Inc. for $1.8 million. The asset features 10,048 square feet of industrial space. Chris Nordling of Newmark represented the seller, while Unique Properties represented the buyer in the transaction.