AMHERST, N.H. — Empire Moulding & Millwork, a division of Novo Building Products, has signed a 217,000-square-foot industrial lease in Amherst, located outside of Nashua in the southern part of the Granite State. The facility is expected to open in the fourth quarter and to employ at least 70 people. Novo Building Products is a Michigan-based manufacturer and distributor of stair parts, mouldings, doors and specialty millwork, along with a variety of board products.
ORLANDO, FLA. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of Park Center, a 200,400-square-foot industrial complex in Orlando. The Geneva Group, a real estate investment and property services firm based in Deerfield Beach, Fla., has purchased the property for $19 million. A private investor group doing business as Park Center Properties LLC was the seller. Park Center, which was fully leased at the time of sale, is located west of North John Young Parkway and north of Lake Breeze Drive, in Orlando’s Northwest Orange submarket. The transaction included eight parcels with a total of 16.7 acres. In addition to one vacant lot, the property includes six single-story small bay warehouses and one dock-high warehouse and assembly building. Geneva Group has begun on renovations of Park Center, including new paint and roofs, enhanced lighting, a parking lot overlay and new signage. Park Center was leased to 44 tenants at the time of the sale to predominantly local and regional businesses. Joe Rossi and Nick Hanson of Colliers brokered the transaction. With the acquisition of Park Center, Geneva Group now owns 631,352 square feet of industrial space in Central Florida.
HUMBLE, TEXAS — Montgomery, Texas-based brokerage firm West Star Marketing Group has arranged the sale of Airport Commerce Park, a 305,000-square-foot office flex property in the northern Houston suburb of Humble. The property is situated on 16.3 acres at 5950 Sam Houston Parkway. Fort Worth-based Fort Acquisitions purchased the property from Houston-based Redhorn Capital for an undisclosed price. Tom Clarkson of West Star brokered the deal.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — Bradford Commercial Real Estate Services has negotiated the sale of Parkway Business Center, a 73,600-square-foot flex property in Grand Prairie. Shane Benner and Josh Meraz of Bradford represented the seller, a California-based entity doing business as WC Parkway Business Center LLC, in the transaction. Rich Young Jr. of Rich Young Cos. represented the buyer, a Los Angeles-based limited liability company. Parkway Business Center was 97 percent leased at the time of sale.
PORTLAND, ORE., AND VANCOUVER, WASH. — Talonvest Capital has arranged a $16 million loan for Get Space. The life insurance company-backed, 10-year loan is secured by two self-storage facilities in Portland and Vancouver. The loan provided the borrower permanent financing prior to economic stabilization at the properties. The properties offer a total of 122,000 rentable square feet and 1,257 storage units in a mix of climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled units. The Vancouver property was built in 2018, while the Portland location was expanded and renovated in 2018. Erich Pryor, David DiRienzo, Jim Davies and Tom Sherlock of Talonvest Capital handled the financing.
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From Hype to Hyperscalers: NAI Global Discusses Trends for Data Centers
Data centers have exploded in importance over the last year and a half. Kevin Goeller, principal, NAI KLNB, has over 21 years of experience in the field of data center development, sales and leasing, but says that, lately, exponential change is driving demand in this asset class. He spoke to REBusinessOnline about the booming need and limiting factors for data centers. REBusiness: Tell us about the sudden, increased demand for data centers. What amount of this demand is due to the pandemic driving people to work from home? What amount of the demand is here to stay? Goeller: Prior to the pandemic, we were already in an upward curve because of the added disciplines of 5G and edge data centers contributing to the already competitive growth of the hyperscalers and multitenant data centers. Data center development didn’t have the interest from institutional investors that it does today; these assets were just starting to get these institutions to chase them as a real estate discipline. Fast forward to the pandemic, which added Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other video conferencing and work-from-home needs. These put additional pressure on an already pressurized discipline, an asset class already trying to adapt and grow. REBusiness: …
MELROSE PARK, ILL. — Bridge Industrial has acquired a former Navistar manufacturing site in Melrose Park for the development of Bridge Point Melrose Park, a 1.5 million-square-foot industrial park. Navistar sold the 86-acre site to the Chicago-based developer. Plans call for three Class A, speculative buildings, two of which will each span 415,918 square feet. The third building will measure 707,953 square feet. The facilities will feature clear heights ranging from 36 to 40 feet, 130-foot truck courts, a total of 234 exterior docks, eight drive-in doors, 1,481 car stalls and 282 trailer stalls. Completion is slated for mid-2023. Dan McGillicuddy of JLL represented Navistar in the sale.
GARDNER, KAN. — Newmark Zimmer has brokered the sale of a 1.1 million-square-foot distribution center in Gardner, about 30 miles southwest of Kansas City. The sales price was undisclosed. Located at 17150 Mercury St., the 72-acre property is one of the largest distribution facilities in metro Kansas City, according to Newmark Zimmer. It is fully leased to outdoor recreation company Coleman Co. Inc., which has occupied the facility since 2009. Mark Long, John Hassler and Jim Linn of Newmark Zimmer brokered the transaction, further details of which were undisclosed.
DELAWARE, OHIO — The Kroger Co. and KNAPP have unveiled plans to modernize and expand the grocer’s Great Lakes Distribution Center in Delaware, about 30 miles north of Columbus. The property opened in 2003 and currently services 115 Kroger stores in central and northwest Ohio as well as southeast Michigan and the Ohio River Valley region. Plans call for the addition of modern technology and a 130,000-square-foot expansion. KNAPP provides logistics solutions and specialized software for production and distribution. “The expansion of the facility is part of the ongoing transformation of our supply chain network, and this project will more than double our capacity while delivering innovation and scalability that can grow with demand,” says Tony Lucchino, Kroger’s vice president of supply chain and network strategy.
CHARLESTOWN, MASS. — CBRE has negotiated the $74.5 million sale of The Town Industrial Portfolio, a collection of three industrial and self-storage buildings totaling 110,898 square feet in Charlestown. The buildings are situated on a combined 4.3 acres near Interstates 90 and 93 on the north side of Boston. The portfolio consists of a 21,586-square-foot industrial building, a CubeSmart-branded self-storage facility with 617 interior storage units and 28 exterior storage units and a fully leased flex/R&D facility. Scott Dragos, Chris Skeffington, Doug Jacoby, Tony Hayes, Tim Mulhall, Roy Sandeman and Dan Hines of CBRE represented the seller, Center Court, in the transaction. The buyer was The Related Cos.