LOMBARD, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $10.2 million sale of Oak Creek Center in Lombard, a western suburb of Chicago. The 79,462-square-foot industrial facility is located on Oak Creek Drive. Tenants include Home Depot and Kia Motors. Peter Doughty of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor. He also secured and represented the buyer, a private investor. Frank Montalto and Dean Giannakopoulos of Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. arranged acquisition financing on behalf of the buyer.
SAN DIEGO — CapRock Partners has completed the disposition of a newly renovated distribution center located at 1855 Dornoch Court in San Diego’s Otay Mesa submarket. An investment firm acquired the property for an undisclosed price. CapRock completed several million dollars in capital improvements to the 210,156-square-foot building, which was originally built in the late 1980s. Situated on 10.6 acres, the facility features functional divisibility with a variety of bay sizes, 26- to 28-foot clear heights, grade- and dock-high loading doors, ESFR sprinkler systems and concrete truck courts. Bryce Aberg, Jeff Chiate, Jeffrey Cole, Ed Hernandez, Mike Adey and Zach Harman of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the deal. Brant Aberg of Cushman & Wakefield along with Joe Anderson and Andy Irwin of JLL provided market leasing advisory.
REDMOND, WASH. — The Leibsohn Group of Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Oakridge Business Park One, an industrial property in Redmond. A local investor acquired the property from an undisclosed seller for $14.2 million. Located at 17965 NE 65th St., Oakridge Business Park One features 41,900 square feet of industrial space. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to a single tenant on a long-term lease. The buyer plans to eventually redevelop the asset. Brian Leibsohn and Raymond Vara of The Leibsohn Group in Marcus & Millichap’s Seattle office represented the seller and procured the buyer in the deal.
PERRIS, CALIF. — Dalfen Industrial has purchased Markham Distribution Center, an industrial property located at 212 Markham St. in Perris. Terms of the transaction were not released. The 80,527-square-foot property was built in 2019. The acquisition is the eighth West Coast purchase Dalfen has made in the past seven months.
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. — Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE) has broken ground on a 267,575-square-foot, build-to-suit cold storage project in the Northern New Jersey community of Woodbridge for FreezPak Logistics. The facility will consist of roughly 209,500 square feet of freezer space, a 45,760-square-foot cool dock and another 12,000 square feet of office space. The construction plan includes a clear height of 67 feet in the freezer and 30 feet in the cool dock area, as well as 34 dock doors, 70 trailer spaces and 167 automobile parking spaces. David Gheriani, William Waxman, Mindy Lissner and Kevin Dudley with CBRE, along with internal representative Ben Rosen, represented Duke Realty in the lease negotiations with FreezPak.
SOMERSET, N.J. — Denver-based EverWest Real Estate Investors has acquired a 125,790-square-foot industrial property in the Northern New Jersey community of Somerset for $27.7 million. Joel Lubin, John Buckley and Gary Politi of JLL, along with internal agent Stephen Feinberg, negotiated the deal on behalf of EverWest. The seller was Citgen Realty LLC. The Class A property was fully leased to drug developer Rising Pharma Holdings Inc. at the time of sale.
HARRISBURG, PA. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $12 million sale of a 927,828-square-foot industrial property in Harrisburg. The complex consists of eight buildings on a 21.3-acre site that are leased to tenants including PP&L Electric Utilities Corp., Capital Building Supply, Martin Logistics and Midwest Transport Inc. Craig Dunkle, Chad Thomason and Mher Vartanian of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller and buyer, both of which were limited liability companies that requested anonymity, in the deal. Sean Beuche of Marcus & Millichap assisted in closing the transaction as the broker of record.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 146,748-square-foot industrial lease at 2750 114th St. in Grand Prairie, located roughly midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 1998 and spans 196,012 square feet. Mark Graybill and Reed Parker of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, Prologis, in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant, third-party logistics firm Amplex Corp., was not disclosed.
PHARR, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Pharr Logistics Center, a 109,737-square-foot industrial building located in the Rio Grande Valley. The property was built on 7.7 acres in 1994 and was fully leased at the time of sale. Adam Abushagur of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, and procured the buyer, a private equity firm. Both parties involved in the deal requested anonymity.
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Lee & Associates Breaks Down Third-Quarter Economic Outlook by Sector
The calculus for which asset classes are likeliest to demonstrate strong growth continues to shift as the pandemic appears to be receding. Patterns in labor shortages, supply chain issues and material costs have managed to solidify through the third quarter of 2021. Lee & Associates’ newly released Q3 2021 North America Market Report dissects third-quarter 2021 industrial, office, retail and multifamily findings, with a focus on where demand is moving and the challenges facing each asset class. Lee & Associates has made the full market report available at this link (with further breakdowns of factors like vacancy rates, market rents, inventory square footage and cap rates by city). Below is a bird’s-eye overview of four commercial real estate asset classes as general categories, broken down to frame each through the trends and complications they faced up to the fourth quarter, according to Lee & Associates’ research. Industrial: Q3 Posts More Record Demand Pandemic-fueled consumer spending drove up third-quarter demand for warehouse and distribution facilities that eclipsed previous records. And despite a nationwide surge in new construction, some metros can barely accommodate the pace of tenant expansion. Additionally, year-over-year rent growth is at a record 6.7 percent for the industrial property sector …