PHOENIX — Colton Commercial has arranged the sale of the Ace Asphalt facility, a two-building property located at 3030 S. 7th St. in Phoenix. OP 3030 7th Property acquired the asset from Aceland LLC for $8.5 million. Situated on 29.4 acres, the property includes a 27,682-square-foot office building and an 11,788-square-foot service building. Ace Asphalt will continue its current lease at the site. Dan Colton of Colton Commercial represented the seller, while Pat Harlan of JLL’s Phoenix office represented the buyer in deal.
GROVEPORT, OHIO — The Pizzuti Cos. and development partner Olympus Ventures LLC are underway on the construction of Hamilton Road One Distribution Center, a 324,000-square-foot industrial building in central Ohio’s Groveport. The development team is undertaking the project on a speculative basis. Located on Hamilton Road, the site provides convenient access to I-270 and I-70. The building will feature a clear height of 32 feet, 57 dock doors, four grade doors, 212 auto parking spaces and 64 trailer parking spaces. Completion is slated for December. Jeff Lyons of CBRE is marketing the project for lease.
HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — Creation, a Phoenix-based investment and development firm, has broken ground on Northmark Commerce Center, a 234,000-square-foot industrial project in the Fort Worth suburb of Haltom City. Designed by LGE Design Build, the Class A logistics facility is expected to be complete in late 2022. Creation is developing Northmark Commerce Center in partnership with Crow Holdings Capital. Dallas-based Holt Lunsford Commercial has been tapped to lease the development.
HICKSVILLE, N.Y. — Simone Development Cos. has sold the 15-acre site of the former Rubber Co. of American Polymer Corp. manufacturing plant in the Long Island community of Hicksville. The facility was originally constructed in 1945 to produce plastics and latex and in subsequent years has been owned by various manufacturers, including Occidental Chemical Corp, Sybron Corp. and Bayer Corp. Paul Leone of CBRE represented the buyer, a fund backed by Brookfield Asset Management, in the transaction. Jim MacDonald negotiated the sale on an internal basis for Simone Development. The new ownership plans to develop a warehouse/distribution center on the site.
SURPRISE, ARIZ. — Baker Development Corp. (BDC) has acquired an 81-acre land site for the development of Cactus 303, an industrial park in Surprise. BDC purchased the land, located on the northeast corner of Cactus Road and Loop 303, for $20 million. The $150 million project will feature approximately 1 million square feet of industrial space spread across seven Class A buildings. The project will also feature a retail component along the Cactus Road frontage, with retail pads ranging from 0.75 acres to 16 acres. The industrial buildings will range from 82,000 square feet to 378,000 square feet with all buildings offering flexible single- or multi-tenant configurations; 32-foot to 40-foot clear heights; dock-high and grade-level doors; up to 200-foot truck courts; and extensive, expandable auto and trailer parking. The site can also accommodate build-to-suit users of up to 600,000 square feet. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2022, with the first phase slated for completion by year-end 2022. Butler Design is serving as architect and Layton Construction is serving as the general contractor. Cactus 303 is situated within the 3,300-acre Prasada master plan, which features single-family homes, a 180-acre auto mall and a 60-acre power center. Anthony Lydon, Marc …
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Taurus Investment Holdings LLC, a global private equity real estate firm, has acquired a light industrial portfolio in Kansas City for $55.2 million. Comprised of 20 buildings and more than 715,000 square feet, the portfolio will expand Taurus’ industrial platform to encompass 196 buildings totaling over 13 million square feet. Seller information and specific properties were not disclosed.
SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS — JLL has brokered the sale of Southlake Business Park, a 182,129-square-foot light industrial development located near Fort Worth. The three-building park was developed in 2020 and was fully leased at the time of sale. Building features include 24- to 28-foot clear heights, 63 dock-high doors, 15 percent office finishes, ESFR fire protection systems and ample vehicle parking. Dustin Volz, Stephen Bailey, Dom Espinosa, Matthew Barge and Wesley Gilmer of JLL represented the seller, Holt Lunsford Commercial Investments, in the transaction. CBRE Global Investors purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. The development was fully leased to six tenants at the time of sale.
DALLAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 174,932-square-foot industrial lease renewal at 4100 Platinum Way in South Dallas. Nathan Denton of Lee & Associates and Brett Owens of Transwestern represented the landlord, Platinum Way Holdings, in the lease negotiations. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY AND TORONTO — KKR, a global private equity firm based in New York City, has agreed to sell a national portfolio of warehouses and distribution centers to Oxford Properties Group, a real estate owner and manager based in Toronto. The $2.2 billion deal is expected to close in the coming months. The portfolio comprises 149 properties located across 12 major industrial U.S. markets, including the Inland Empire in California, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago, Houston, Tampa, Orlando, San Diego and the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. corridor. Since 2018, KKR and its management platform Alpha Industrial Properties assembled and maintained the portfolio across 50 individual transactions. The firm’s decision to focus on high-barrier-to-entry sites near major population centers attracted the strong offer from Oxford Properties, which is looking to allocate one-third of its global equity in industrial real estate. “Growing our U.S. industrial business is one of Oxford’s highest-conviction global investment strategies as we continue to build, buy and invest in the physical infrastructure that serves the digital economy,” says Ankit Bhatt, vice president of investments at Oxford Properties and leader of the firm’s U.S. industrial investment strategy. ”High-quality, infill, consumption-driven industrial portfolios of scale trade infrequently, so this transaction is …
BELTON, MO. — Pet supply company Chewy Inc. has opened its new 800,000-square-foot e-commerce fulfillment center in Belton, about 20 miles south of Kansas City. Chewy, an online retailer, says the investment will create more than 1,600 new jobs in the region. NorthPoint Development was the developer and Crossland Construction Co. was the general contractor for the project.