DARIEN, CONN. — Fantini & Gorga, a Boston-based mortgage banking firm, has arranged a $17.2 million loan for the refinancing of Hollow Tree Self Storage, a 90-unit facility in the southern coastal city of Darien. The facility spans 83,595 net rentable square feet and includes outdoor vehicle storage space. Casimir Groblewski of Fantini & Gorga arranged the loan through an undisclosed, locally based bank on behalf of the borrower, Connecticut-based Affordable Self Storage Inc.
HORN LAKE, MISS. — JLL has brokered the sale of DeSoto A2, a 328,355-square-foot bulk distribution facility in Horn Lake. The facility is triple-net-leased to Toshiba, a Tokyo-based computer and electronics retailer company. Dennis Mitchell, Matt Wirth, Britton Burdette, Jim Freeman, Mitchell Townsend and Jack Wohrman of JLL represented the seller, Preylock Holdings, in the transaction. Bixby Land Co. purchased the property for an undisclosed price. DeSoto A2 is part of DeSoto 55 Logistics Center, a business center developed in 2020 by Atlanta-based Core5 Industrial Partners. The single-tenant building features 36-foot clear heights, ESFR fire protection, a TPO roof, auto and trailer parking and dock-high doors with view windows. The facility is located at 1453 Commerce Parkway in a suburb less than 20 miles south of downtown Memphis. The infill location is just off Interstate 55, about 10 miles from Memphis International Airport. Additionally, the property has unparalleled regional access along with proximity to multiple intermodal facilities, including Canadian National Harrison Yard, BNSF Railway and Norfolk Southern.
TACOMA, WASH. — Dalfen Industrial has purchased Tacoma Supply Chain Center, a three-building industrial park in Tacoma. Terms of the off-market transaction were not released. The newly developed property features 711,855 square feet of industrial space and close proximity to Interstate 5, State Route 512 and the Port of Tacoma. Over the last 12 months, Dalfen Industrial has acquired and developed more than $1.5 billion of industrial properties in key metros across the United States.
MESQUITE, TEXAS — Developer Dalfen Industrial has broken ground on Phase I of Mesquite Airport Logistics Center, a 2 million-square-foot project that will be located on the eastern outskirts of Dallas. The property will feature proximity to Mesquite Metro Airport, as well as a FedEx Ground facility, a UPS Customer Center facility and the Union Pacific Intermodal railroad. Phase I of the project will consist of two buildings with 36-foot clear heights and a combined 200 dock doors and 130 trailer parking stalls. Building A will be available for a maximum of 379,620 square feet, with Building B topping out at 626,718 square feet. Completion is slated for the second quarter of 2022.
ROMULUS, MICH. — Ford Motor Co. has selected Romulus, a southwest suburb of Detroit and home of the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, as the location of its new global battery center named Ford Ion Park. The $100 million project will help accelerate research and development of battery and battery cell technology. Ford Ion Park is part of Ford’s $185 million investment in developing, testing and building vehicle battery cells and cell arrays. Ford will refurbish an existing 270,000-square-foot facility to house up to 200 engineers.
GRANITE CITY, ILL. — Contegra Construction Co. has completed the new 40,800-square-foot headquarters for icon Mechanical in Granite City, just north of St. Louis. icon Mechanical is a full-service mechanical contractor, engineering and construction firm specializing in the design, fabrication and installation of process piping, power piping, industrial ventilation and commercial HVAC. The company employs more than 150 people in addition to hundreds of trade workers on projects. The two-story property is located at 1616 Cleveland Blvd. and features an atrium, glass-walled offices, LED lighting, two stairways and open interior workspaces. Joining icon and Contegra on the project team were civil engineer Juneau Associates, architect Gray Design Group and structural engineer Alper Audi, all of which are St. Louis-area firms.
BETHESDA, MD. — Talonvest Capital Inc. has secured a $45.5 million construction loan to fund the ground-up development of a self-storage facility in Bethesda. Upon completion, the self-storage facility will feature a 131,559 net rentable square feet of climate-controlled space in approximately 1,560 units across nine levels. The project is expected to be completed in 2022. The loan features a low interest rate, a three-year term with an extension option and prepayment flexibility. Jim Davies, Erich Pryor, Mason Brusseau and Tom Sherlock of Talonvest secured the loan on behalf of the borrower, 1784 Capital Holdings, which is a self-storage developer based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Talonvest Capital is an Irvine, Calif.-based real estate firm that provides advisory services to self-storage and commercial real estate investors, owners and developers nationally.
BUFFALO GROVE, ILL. — Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria, famous for its Chicago deep-dish pizza, will consolidate several local properties and open a 125,000-square-foot headquarters in Buffalo Grove, a northern suburb of Chicago. The company will occupy space at 900-950 Busch Parkway in Lake County’s Corporate Grove Business Park. The property will serve as the company’s home office, e-commerce site, manufacturing plant and fulfillment center. Owned by The Missner Group, the building features 15,000 square feet of office space, eight docks and a clear height of 16 feet. Lou Malnati’s plans to occupy the space in spring 2022 following an extensive buildout. Ned Frank and Pat Hake of Colliers Chicago represented The Malnati Organization in the lease transaction. Brett Kroner of Cushman & Wakefield represented ownership.
LAS VEGAS — Harsch Investment Properties has broken ground on Sunset Airport Center II, a four-building industrial complex in Las Vegas’ airport submarket. Slated for completion in summer 2022, Sunset Airport Center II will be an addition to the 269,853-square-foot Sunset Airport Center property that Harsch purchased in 2016. Located on Sunset and Pecos roads, Buildings A and B combined will total 185,000 square feet and offer up to 19 tenant spaces that range from 6,000 square feet to 16,000 square feet. Each space features both dock-high and grade-level loading. The buildings range from 26-foot to 30-foot minimum warehouse clear heights, 160-foot minimum truck court, ESFR sprinklers and Sunset Road frontage. The project team includes R&O Construction, VLMK Engineering + Design and VTN Consulting Engineers. MDL’s Jarrad Katz and Galit Kimerling-Moreau are overseeing leasing of the property.
MADISONVILLE, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of D&J Storage, a 292-unit self-storage facility in Madisonville, about 100 miles north of Houston. The property spans 41,740 square feet. Dave Knobler of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private investor, in the transaction. Jordan Farrer, Charles LeClaire and Adam Schlosser, also with Marcus & Millichap, represented the buyer, an individual/personal trust. Both parties requested anonymity.