Industrial

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CHAMBERSBURG, PA. — Pennsylvania-based investment and development firm Endurance Real Estate Group has broken ground on Chambersburg Logistics Park, a 1 million-square-foot industrial project that will be located about 55 miles southwest of Harrisburg. The site spans 93 acres and is located immediately off Exit 10 of I-81. Building features will include a clear height of 40 feet, 166 overhead dock positions, four drive-in doors, 213 trailer stalls (expandable to 303), 375 car parking spaces (expandable to 561) and an ESFR sprinkler system. PNC Bank provided construction financing for the project, which is slated for a fourth-quarter 2023 completion. Endurance is developing Chambersburg Logistics Park in partnership with an affiliate of Guardian Life Insurance Co. and has tapped Cushman & Wakefield to lease the facility. Cushman & Wakefield also advised on Endurance’s capitalization of the project.

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Maryland-based industrial investment firm Realterm has acquired two buildings totaling 41,500 square feet in the Northern New Jersey community of East Rutherford. The adjacent buildings at 880 and 890 Paterson Plank Road sit on a combined 4.4 acres and respectively total 5,000 and 36,500 square feet. Scott Perkins, Chris Todd and William Ericksen of NAI James E. Hanson represented Realterm in the transaction. The seller was not disclosed.

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ALABAMA, N.Y. — Edwards Vacuum, a British-based manufacturer of vacuum and abatement equipment and part of the Atlas Copco Group, plans to develop a new $319 million manufacturing facility in Western New York. The 240,000-square-foot project will be situated within Western New York Science & Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP), a 1,250-acre industrial park located in the Genesee County town of Alabama. The facility will house manufacturing, storage and administration for the production of dry pump equipment for the U.S. semiconductor industry. Edwards Vacuum will create 600 jobs for the larger Buffalo-Rochester Tech Corridor. The announcement builds on Micron’s recent $100 billion investment in Central New York, as well as the as New York’s recently signed Green CHIPS legislation and the federal CHIPS and Science Act, to make New York a central figure in the global semiconductor industry. “We are now seeing energy flow into Upstate’s manufacturing sector like never before, and this investment will further cement that the future of microchips will be built with American made products, crafted by New York workers,” says Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer. As part of the agreement with Edwards Vacuum, New York’s chief economic development agency, Empire State Development, has offered up …

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Industrial sector Lee Associates

Lee & Associates’ newly released 2022 Q3 North America Market Report examines third-quarter 2022 industrial, office, retail and multifamily outlooks throughout the United States. This sector-based review of commercial real estate trends for the third quarter of the year examines the difficulties facing each asset class and where opportunities in the commercial real estate landscape may be emerging. Lee & Associates has made the full market report available here (with further breakdowns of factors like vacancy rates, market rents, inventory square footage and cap rates by city), but the summaries below provide high-level considerations of the overall health and obstacles for the industrial, office, retail and multifamily sectors. Industrial Overview: High Rent, Low Vacancy Everywhere North American industrial space availability is tight everywhere while rent growth and property prices remain near or have moved beyond historic highs. Through the third quarter, the United States’ vacancy rate settled at 4 percent, up 10 basis points from second quarter 2022. Average rents increased 11.4 percent year over year with gains of 19 percent in Miami, 18.7 percent in Southern California’s Inland Empire, 16 percent in Phoenix and 14.6 percent in Atlanta. Since the COVID lockdown in March of 2020, developers of U.S. logistics space have been …

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HOUSTON — Partners, the brokerage and investment firm formerly known as NAI Partners, has arranged the sale of a 50,000-square-foot industrial property in North Houston. Cary Latham and Hunter Stockard of Partners represented the seller, an entity doing business as Isham Interests Ltd., in the transaction. Fort Worth-based investment firm Fort Capital purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.

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DANVILLE, KY. — Campari Group, a global spirits distributor based in Milan, has agreed to purchase Wilderness Trail Distillery, a bourbon and rye whiskey distiller based in Danville. Campari purchased an initial 70 percent stake in the company for $420 million, and in 2031 will have the option to purchase the remaining 30 percent interest for $180 million. Wilderness Trail was founded in 2012 and in 2018 launched two new whiskey brands: Wilderness Trail Bourbon and Wilderness Trail Rye Whiskey. The company operates a 168-acre campus in Danville and has approximately 100,000 barrels aging in its six rickhouses, according to the company’s website. This is the second largest acquisition for Campari, with its 2016 purchase of Grand Marnier being the largest, according to Reuters. The Wilderness Trail transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close before the end of 2022. Wilderness Trail will continue to operate independently until the transaction closes. William Blair & Co. acted as exclusive financial advisor to Wilderness Trail, and Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff LLP acted as its legal advisor. McDermott Will & Emery LLP acted as tax and legal advisor to Campari Group, whose other whiskey labels include Wild Turkey …

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CHESAPEAKE, VA. — MDH Partners has acquired Chesapeake Industrial Park, a two-building, 182,000-square-foot industrial property located at 3804 and 3808 Cook Blvd. in Chesapeake. This is Atlanta-based MDH’s second Virginia purchase this year, following the purchase of AeroFarms Danville in May. Chamie Burroughs and Ricky Anderson of Colliers represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Joe DeHaven and Makenna Barbara served as the acquisition leads for MDH Partners. The sales price was not disclosed. The park’s two 90,000-square-foot facilities were fully leased at the time of sale and feature 30-foot clear heights and 23 dock-high doors.

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SAN DIEGO — Lincoln Property Co. and a real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital have completed the disposition of Kearny Mesa Logistics Center, a newly constructed Class A distribution facility in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa submarket. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located at 5650 Kearny Mesa Road, the 299,381-square-foot facility features 36-foot clear heights, cross-dock configuration, abundant dock-high loading capabilities, 120-foot concrete truck courts and the option to accommodate an extensive pool of logistics-oriented users. Kevin Shannon, Andrew Briner, Bret Hardy, Jim Linn, Brunson Howard and Ken White of Newmark represented the sellers in the deal. The name of the buyer was not released.

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ROMULUS, MICH. — Peak Construction Corp. is underway on construction of Building C at Romulus Corporate Park in Michigan. Scannell Properties is the developer. The speculative building will span 243,770 square feet with a clear height of 32 feet, 30 dock doors, two drive-in doors, 40 trailer parking spaces and 156 car parking spaces. The project team includes architect Ware Malcomb and civil engineer PEA Group. Completion is slated for April 2023.

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