MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. — Dalfen Industrial has purchased Moreno Valley Logistics Center, an industrial property situated less than three miles from Interstate 215 in Moreno Valley. Terms of the transaction were not released. Moreno Valley Logistics Center features 95,922 square feet of industrial space. The asset is in close proximity to State Route 60 and State Route 91, enabling east-west connectivity including to the Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles.
FOREST GROVE, ORE. — Crane Data Centers Inc. and Principal Asset Management plan to develop a data center campus in Forest Grove, a suburb of Portland. The campus will be situated near the Hillsboro data center ecosystem, which houses data centers for users including Meta, Twitter and Microsoft, among others. The estimated development cost for the project was not disclosed. “We’re honored to partner with Principal Real Estate Investors to develop a new data center campus in the Portland market,” says Matt Pfile, CEO of Crane. “This strategic partnership with Crane and data center investment in the Portland area is an exciting project for all parties involved and makes for an excellent addition to our current portfolio of data centers,” says Ben Wobschall, managing director of real estate at Principal Asset Management. The first phase of the project includes a data center spanning approximately 300,000 square feet on a 35-acre site. The facility will have an initial capacity of 50 megawatts (MW) with plans to expand to over 100 MW, according to the developers. The two-story property will have 30-foot clear heights with flooring that can support 400 pounds per square foot, according to Crane. The construction timeline for Phase …
By David Ebro, president of Levey Group Despite the nearly 6.4 million square feet of new project starts during the fourth quarter of 2022, which grew the volume of Houston’s industrial space currently under construction to 33.5 million square feet, the market posted a record 30.3 million square feet of net absorption for the year. This activity drove Houston’s vacancy rate down to 3.8 percent — a decline of 220 basis points from the end of 2021. The remarkable growth throughout the Houston MSA — the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area — has developers racing to find buildable sites both within and beyond the city limits. As a result, industrial development is bulging out of the city and into submarkets such as Baytown, Richmond and Brookshire as developers pursue more economically feasible land among these growing population centers. Beyond favorable land opportunities, Houston’s outlying submarkets offer the workforces that tenants require for their warehouse and distribution operations. These growing submarkets are also generating an increasing amount of demand from e-commerce users in the consumer goods sector. Record Growth East of Houston Much of the industrial growth can be found east of town, near and along the Houston Ship Channel. For the …
SHANNON, GA. — MDH Partners and Hight Knox Properties have delivered Hillman Group Building, a 420,750-square-foot warehouse situated on nearly 60 acres at 6695 New Calhoun Highway NE in Shannon. The property was a build-to-suit for The Hillman Group, a building solutions and hardware supplier firm based in Cincinnati. Currently the firm operates three separate facilities in the Georgia cities of Rome, Smyrna and Adairsville. The new Shannon warehouse will support 200 jobs, including 144 transferring from an existing location. Hillman Group Building features 210 parking spaces, 107 exterior dock doors and 36-foot clear heights.
EVERETT, WASH. — Woodinville, Wash.-based Formost Fuji, a manufacturer in the packaging industry, has purchased a manufacturing and industrial building located at 905 80th St. SW in Everett. MTorres America sold the asset for $20 million. Situated on 14.9 acres, the property features a 65,344-square-foot building with capacity for warehouse expansion of up to 32,000 square feet. MTorres America, an aerospace manufacturing company, previously occupied the building. Zach Vall-Spinosa and James Leptich of Kidder Mathews represented the buyer in the deal.
MUKILTEO, WASH. — Sienna Technologies has acquired an industrial property located in the Harbour Pointe neighborhood of Mukilteo, approximately 25 miles north of Seattle. UMC Inc., a medical contractor, sold the asset for $8.2 million. Zach Vall-Spinosa and Ryan Foster of Kidder Mathews represented the buyer in the deal. Located at 11611 49th Place W., the property features 36,000 square feet of standalone industrial flex space on two acres. Based in Woodinville, Sienna Technologies manufactures aluminum nitride ceramics, including some used for electric propulsion in space exploration appliances.
DALLAS, MESQUITE AND GARLAND, TEXAS — Locally based investment firm CanTex Capital has sold a portfolio of five industrial properties totaling 689,497 square feet in East Dallas. Two of the properties are located within the city limits, and the other three are located in the nearby suburbs of Mesquite and Garland. The portfolio comprises a mix of single- and multi-tenant buildings ranging in size from 19,000 to 184,000 square feet. Stephen Bailey, Dustin Volz, Dom Espinosa, Zach Riebe and Pauli Kerr of JLL represented CanTex Capital in the deal. The buyer was not disclosed. At the time of sale, the portfolio was fully leased to tenants such as ADCO Industries and ProLift Rigging Co.
PLEASANTON, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Budget Self Storage, a 234-unit facility in Pleasanton, about 35 miles south of San Antonio. The facility was built in 1995 and totals 28,275 net rentable square feet of non-climate-controlled space. Jon Danklefs of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were limited liability companies that requested anonymity, in the transaction.
CLAYMONT, DEL. — Chicago-based REIT First Industrial Realty Trust has acquired 28 acres in Claymont, about 25 miles south of Philadelphia, for the development of a 358,000-square-foot distribution center. The site is located within the 425-acre First State Crossing mixed-use development. The rear-load facility will offer a clear height of 40 feet, 68 dock positions and 241 trailer parking stalls. St. Louis-based Commercial Development Co. sold the land on which the facility will be built. Completion is slated for October.
VALLEY COTTAGE, N.Y. — Walker & Dunlop has arranged a $37.7 million construction loan for Lincoln Logistics, a 220,000-square-foot industrial project in Valley Cottage, about 25 miles north of New York City. The property will feature a clear height of 36 feet, 55 dock doors and 123 parking spaces. Aaron Appel, Keith Kurland, Jonathan Schwartz, Adam Schwartz and Mo Beler arranged the debt on behalf of the borrower, a partnership between Lincoln Equities Group and PCCP. The direct lender was not disclosed.
