UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. — CRG and Venture One Real Estate have broken ground on an 897,000-square-foot industrial build-to-suit for Central Steel & Wire Co. (CS&W) at Gateway 57 Business Park in University Park, a southern suburb of Chicago. The new facility will serve as the headquarters and operations hub for CS&W, which is a metals distributor and fabricator. The project is the third development within Gateway 57, a 355-acre industrial park located at the southeast corner of Steger and Central roads. Clayco will serve as the design-builder, Lamar Johnson Collaborative will serve as architect and Jacob & Hefner Associates is the civil engineer. Dirk Riekse, Jordan Rovito and Sean Henrick of Cushman & Wakefield represented CS&W, while Jason West and Ryan Klink of Cushman & Wakefield represented the developers. Completion is slated for spring 2023.
LA VISTA, NEB. — Cushman & Wakefield/The Lund Co. has negotiated both the lease renewal and sale of 11720 Peel Circle in La Vista, a suburb just south of Omaha. The 178,368-square-foot industrial property sits on 16 acres within the Sarpy West submarket. Denny Sciscoe of Cushman & Wakefield/Lund represented the current tenant in its lease renewal. Upon completion of the lease transaction, Sciscoe also marketed the building for sale. The total consideration for both the lease renewal and the sale was $23 million.
YORK, PA. — Nevada-based Dermody Properties has acquired the former Glen-Gery Corp. manufacturing site in York with plans to redevelop the property into a 342,720-square-foot logistics center. Glen-Gery, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of building products, has occupied the 29.5-acre site for more than 50 years and will lease back the facility for the next two years. Dermody will begin construction of the logistics center at that time. The company also intends to complete roadwork improvements to the adjoining intersection.
SHELTON, CONN. — Avison Young has brokered the $9 million sale of a 102,545-square-foot industrial property in Shelton, located in the southern coastal part of the state. The property was 61 percent leased to four tenants at the time of sale. Sean Cahill and Will Suarez of Avison Young represented the seller, Cambridge Hanover Inc., in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, an entity doing business as DG One Parrot Shelton LLC.
This past year, many commercial real estate sectors and geographies that had been affected by the initial impact of pandemic-induced shutdowns demonstrated improvement. Across Missouri, we saw very robust levels of sales activity, as well as new construction and development — with more than $2.4 billion in overall commercial real estate sales volume through the end of third-quarter 2021. Although statewide growth was reported across all property types and sectors, industrial was especially strong, while retail emerged with slightly less consistency, but was positive nonetheless. The forecast for 2022 is bright, especially as retailers announce expansion plans and developers break ground on new projects. St. Louis is central to growth As an important secondary U.S. market, St. Louis and the surrounding areas are experiencing high levels of demand and activity. In the first three quarters of 2021, the St. Louis market reported $1.7 billion of overall commercial real estate sales volume, representing more than 70 percent of statewide activity. These statistics illustrate the sentiment of today’s active buyers who agree that St. Louis is a stable and attractive market for investment. Within the metro area, St. Charles County stands out as one of the fastest-growing counties in the country, reporting …
FORT PIERCE, FLA. — Atlanta-based Stonemont Financial Group has broken ground on South Florida Logistics Center 95, a two-building, 1.3-million-square-foot speculative industrial development in Fort Pierce. Construction is slated to be complete by the fourth quarter. South Florida Logistics Center 95 is a Class A development that will include one cross-dock facility totaling 1.1 million square feet with a 40-foot clear heights, along with a rear-load facility totaling 202,400 square feet with 32-foot clear heights. Located at the intersection of South Kings Highway and Orange Avenue, the project is situated adjacent to Interstate 95. The site and buildings are being developed for possible future e-commerce and third-party logistics tenants. JLL is overseeing leasing for the project, which will have spaces ranging from 50,000 to 1.1 million square feet available for lease. The project marks Stonemont’s first venture in the South Florida region, with the firm already active in Jacksonville, Orlando, Lakeland and Tampa. The firm currently has nearly 4 million square feet of new industrial space under construction across Florida.
BRIGHTON, COLO. — CBRE has arranged the sale of Buildings 4 and 5 within 76 Commerce Center, a logistics park in Denver’s I-76 corridor. Principal Real Estate Advisors acquired the assets from Mortenson Properties and Hyde Development for an undisclosed price. Tyler Carner, Jeremy Ballenger, Jessica Ostermick, Judson Welliver, Sonja Dusil and Bentley Smith of CBRE represented the sellers in the transaction. Located at 22600 and 22700 E. I-76 Frontage Road in Brighton, Buildings 4 and 5 total 618,480 square feet and are fully leased. Building 5 was constructed in 2018 and Building 4 in 2020. The buildings have Class A features throughout, in addition to fenced outside storage, trailer parking and office space. 76 Commerce Center is a 155-acre regional distribution center with one full mile of Interstate 76 frontage and immediate interstate access. At full build out, the project will have four buildings totaling 1.7 million square feet.
SOUTHFIELD, MICH. — Colliers Detroit has negotiated the sale of a 51,954-square-foot industrial flex building in Southfield for an undisclosed price. The property is located at 26545 American Drive. John Fricke, Peter Kepic and Jonathon Loos of Colliers represented the seller, Veoneer, which previously used the building as office space. Oakland Family Centers, a family mental health services organization with existing locations in Michigan, was the buyer. Oakland plans to take occupancy this quarter.
EDISON, N.J. — JLL has arranged three loans totaling $16.1 million for the refinancing of a portfolio of four industrial properties totaling 389,501 square feet in Northern New Jersey. The buildings, which were 93 percent leased at the time of the loan closing, are situated within Raritan Center Business Park in Edison. Michael Klein, Max Custer and Ryan Carroll of JLL placed the fixed-rate, nonrecourse loans with two different life insurance companies on behalf of the borrower, Summit Associates Inc.
HOUSTON — CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell four of its data centers in Houston for approximately $670 million. Under the terms of the agreement, DataBank Holdings Ltd. will acquire Houston West I, II and III, as well as Houston Galleria. The four facilities total more than 300,000 square feet. Additionally, CyrusOne will lease back the Houston West III shell to support a lease signed with a customer in the fourth quarter of 2021. The transaction is expected to close by the end of this quarter. Proceeds from the sale will be utilized to fund future development projects. “We are excited to execute on our capital recycling initiative to fund our continued growth,” says David Ferdman, interim president and CEO of Dallas-based CyrusOne. “This divestiture further optimizes our portfolio as we redeploy capital into accretive developments across core markets with diverse hyperscale and enterprise demand in the U.S. and Europe.” The transaction marks DataBank’s entry into the Houston market. “With our deep roots in Texas, [Houston] was a logical metro for us to expand into and allows us to bring our digital infrastructure and interconnection solutions to the fourth-largest metro in the U.S.,” says …