GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Titan Development has broken ground on the 172,428-square-foot Building 3 as part of Phase II of Northpark35 Industrial Park, located in the northern Austin suburb of Georgetown. Phase I of the project centered on the development of Building 1, a 172,677-square-foot building that is now leased to Texas Speed & Performance, a supplier of automotive parts. Building 2 spans 157,300 square feet and is available for lease. Completion of Building 3 is slated for May 2022.
Industrial
HENDERSON, NEV. — RealComm has brokered the sale of an industrial property located at 7735 Commercial Way in Henderson. Yukon Waters LLC acquired the asset from BS Holdings for $10 million. The property features 42,311 square feet of industrial space. Greg Pancirov, Mike De Lew and Paul Hoyt of RealComm represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.
BORDENTOWN, N.J. — Chicago-based First Industrial Realty Trust will develop First Bordentown Logistics Center, a 208,000-square-foot speculative distribution center that will be located on the southern outskirts of Trenton. Building features will include a clear height of 36 feet, 45 trailer stalls, 42 dock doors, an ESFR sprinkler system and 2,950 square feet of office space. Jonathan Klear and Fred Meyer of NAI Mertz represented the undisclosed seller in the disposition of the 20-acre site on which the property will be located. Along with Cushman & Wakefield, NAI Mertz has also been tapped to market the facility for lease. Completion is slated for late 2022.
PHILADELPHIA — Gattuso Development Partners has broken ground on a 130,000-square-foot flex project at The Philadelphia Navy Yard that will be marketed to industrial and life sciences users. Designed by SITIO Architects, the property will feature a clear height of 30 feet, 14 loading bays and 360 parking spaces. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter. Citizens Bank provided construction financing for the project, with Boston-based The Baupost Group contributing joint venture equity. Ryan Ade and Brett Segal arranged and structured the debt and equity financing.
Partnership Buys 37-Acre Parcel in Mead, Colorado for Five-Building Spec Industrial Development
by Amy Works
MEAD, COLO. — A partnership between Denver-based Silver Point Development and an affiliate of Walker & Dunlop Investment Partners has purchased 37 acres of land for Phase I of Elevation25, a five-building, 578,240-square-foot speculative industrial warehouse development in Mead. Terms of the transaction were not released. The team plans to break ground on the first two buildings later this month, with completion slated for fall 2022. Building 1, totaling 94,076 square feet, is 40 percent pre-leased to Premier Manufacturing with 56,642 square feet of remaining available space. Building 2 will total 109,676 square feet. The developer is positioned to acquire an adjacent 36-acre land parcel within the next three years for the development of Phase 2 of Elevation25, which will include four buildings totaling 422,000 square feet. Dawn McCombs and Kevin Hann of Avison Young’s Industrial Services team in Denver represented the buyers. Clayton Pristou of Avison Young’s Denver-based Structured Finance Group arranged acquisition and construction financing with CIBC Bank USA for the ownership team.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIF. — Faris Lee Investments has arranged the sale of Hermosa Technology Center, an incubator industrial park located at Hermosa Avenue and Sixth Street in Rancho Cucamonga. A private family office based out of Riverside County, Calif., sold the asset to a Los Angeles-based family office for $11.4 million, or $271 per square foot. Nick Miller and Shaun Riley of Faris Lee represented the seller in the deal. At the time of sale, the 42,119-square-foot property was fully leased.
ONTELAUNEE, PA. — Crow Holdings Industrial will develop Route 61 Logistics Center, a 652,080-square-foot industrial project in Ontelaunee, located near Reading in the southern part of the state. The property will feature a clear height of 40 feet, 484 car parking spots, 182 trailer parking stalls and 124 loading docks. Crow Holdings acquired the nearly 60-acre site from the economic development arm of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA), which purchased the land in 2019 and subsequently rezoned it for industrial use. Construction will begin before the end of the year. JLL is marketing the property for lease. The project is Crow Holdings’ first in the Lehigh Valley.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Dallas-based Green Point Property Co. will develop GTX Logistics Park, an industrial project in the northern Austin suburb of Georgetown that will ultimately consist of roughly 3 million square feet of space on a 231-acre site. Phase I of the project will center on a 409,822-square-foot warehouse that will have 36-foot clear heights, 66 dock doors and 2,500 square feet of office space. Completion of this building, which will be located within a Qualified Opportunity Zone, is slated for the third quarter of 2022. Colliers has been tapped to lease GTX Logistics Park. Clint Coe, Chris McColpin and Dom Espinosa of JLL arranged construction financing through Community Bank of Texas on behalf of Green Point.
NORWICH, CONN. — Solar Seal, a manufacturer of insulated glass units, has signed a 201,000-square-foot industrial lease at 40 Wisconsin Ave. in Norwich, located in Connecticut’s New London County. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built on 25 acres in 1980 and features a clear height of 28 feet. Nicholas Morizio and Sean Kumnick of Colliers represented the tenant and the landlord, an affiliate of Massachusetts-based Grossman Cos., in the lease negotiations.
BRISTOL, CONN. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $5 million sale of a 69,494-square-foot industrial property in Bristol, located in Hartford County. The property was built in 1969 and renovated in 2020. Laurie Ann Drinkwater and Seth Richard of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.