TROY, OHIO — Plymouth Industrial REIT has purchased a three-building industrial portfolio totaling 396,800 square feet in Troy, about 20 miles north of Dayton. The purchase price was $22.5 million. The portfolio includes: a 160,000-square-foot building at 2180 Corporate Drive that is leased to F&P America; a 160,000-square-foot building at 1520 Experiment Farm Road that is leased to F&P America; and a 76,800-square-foot property at 952 Dorset Road that is home to Remedi SeniorCare and Cox Media Group. Steve Timmel, Jeff Johnston, Will Roberts, Chris Prosser and Doug Whitten of CBRE represented the seller, Culmen Real Estate Services.
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DALLAS — Billingsley Co. will develop a 234,395-square-foot, build-to-suit warehouse in North Dallas for Sherwood Bedding, a mattress manufacturer that is owned by Tempur Sealy. The property will be located within the 1,700-acre Austin Ranch master-planned community. Construction of the new building is scheduled to begin in February and to be complete in March 2023. Damian Rivera of ESRP represented Sherwood Bedding in the negotiations for the 10-year lease. George Billingsley represented the developer on an internal basis.
HOUSTON — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Easy Self Storage, a 236-unit facility in Houston. Built In 1984, the property spans 29,716 net rentable square feet across 172 non-climate-controlled units and 64 climate-controlled units. Dave Knobler of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. Knobler also secured the buyer, a limited liability company. Both parties requested anonymity.
BOSTON — Cabot Properties Inc. has sold its Value Fund V portfolio in two separate transactions for a total of $2.8 billion. Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust Inc. (BREIT) acquired the portfolio, which features logistics properties in the United States and Europe. The U.S. portfolio includes 102 properties totaling 15.2 million square feet located in major logistics markets such as the Inland Empire, California; Eastern Pennsylvania; South Florida; and the New York metropolitan area. In a separate transaction, Blackstone’s European Core Plus business and its affiliates acquired the remaining European properties, which feature 22 properties totaling 2.2 million square feet of industrial space. The properties are located in European markets such as the Midlands, North West and South East in the United Kingdom; Amsterdam; and Düsseldorf in Germany. “The sale of our Value Fund V portfolio completes our most ambitious logistics property investment program over the past 20 years,” says Franz Colloredo-Mansfeld, chairman and chief executive officer of Cabot. “This portfolio was created through 90 transactions, including 24 development projects throughout the U.S., U.K. and Europe completed over the past five years. We are pleased to have now completed approximately $5 billion in three transactions with Blackstone Real Estate over …
HOUSTON — A partnership between locally based developer Avera Cos. and AEW Capital Management will build Champions Park, a 242,021-square-foot industrial project that will be located in northwest Houston. The property will be situated on 14 acres and will feature 36-foot clear heights, ample car and trailer storage and build-to-suit office space. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter of next year. Cushman & Wakefield is leasing the development.
VISTA, CALIF. — KKR has acquired Vista Commerce, an industrial warehouse facility in Vista, from Westcore for an undisclosed price. Situated on an all-concrete site, the 197,000-square-foot Vista Commerce features 14 dock-high doors, six grade-level doors, 27-foot clear heights and ample power. The property is fully leased to an undisclosed, publicly listed healthcare diagnostic testing company. CBRE represented Westcore in the deal. KKR acquired Vista Commerce through its KKR Real Estate Partners Americas II fund.
CONNVERSVILLE, IND. — An affiliate of Phoenix Investors has purchased a 1.7 million-square-foot manufacturing plant in Connersville, about 65 miles east of Indianapolis. The purchase price and seller were not disclosed. The facility sits on 186 acres at 4747 N. Western Ave. Philco Corp. built the first phase of the property in 1953. In 1961, Ford Motor Co. acquired Philco — a pioneer in battery, radio and television production — and renamed the division Philco-Ford in 1966. Ford expanded the Connersville plant in various phases throughout the 1960s. Ford operated the plant from 1961 until it spun the division off as Visteon Corp. in 2000. Visteon closed the plant in 2007. Since 2013, CliqStudios Cabinets has occupied one-third of the plant, which features a clear height of 30 feet, 50 docks and drive-in doors, two rail sidings. Phoenix plans to make upgrades to the facility.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Capital Development Partners, a Savannah, Ga.-based industrial real estate and infrastructure development firm, has purchased 135 acres in North Charleston near the Port of Charleston’s newly opened Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal. The sales price for the land was $65 million. The Savannah, Ga.-based firm plans to develop Shipyard Creek Logistics Center, an industrial park exceeding $250 million in value. Construction on the site infrastructure and the initial cross-dock terminal will start immediately, with delivery expected in 2022. Shipyard Creek Logistics Center will include container storage, warehousing and logistics support facilities. The project is expected to create 200 direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs. The deep-water Leatherman Terminal offers highly efficient operations for import and export customers. The terminal can handle 700,000 twenty-foot equivalent units in Phase I with expansion capability to 2.4 million TEUs of capacity in Phase II, according to Capital Development Partners. The location of Shipyard Creek Logistics Center offers proximity to infrastructural access points designed to move containers to and from the Port of Charleston via the Leatherman Terminal, the South Carolina Ports Authority’s future dual rail-served intermodal cargo facility and Interstate 26.
IRVING, TEXAS — Locally based investment and development firm Dalfen Industrial has acquired Century Center, a 169,700-square-foot property located near Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport in Irving. Built in 2014, the property was fully leased to three tenants at the time of sale. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. Following this transaction, Dalfen owns more than 3 million square feet of industrial space in DFW and has more than 2 million square feet of product in its development pipeline.
DALLAS — Dallas-based Terrydale Capital has arranged a $24.2 million acquisition loan for a portfolio of self-storage properties located in South Texas. The portfolio consists of eight existing facilities, four vacant sites and one site that is under construction. Cody Baker of Terrydale Capital arranged the five-year loan, which carried a fixed interest rate of 3.25 percent, two years of interest-only payments and a 25-year amortization schedule. An undisclosed correspondent bank provided the loan. The borrower was also not disclosed.