PASADENA, TEXAS — Developer i3 Interests has broken ground on 3° Red Bluff, a 148,900-square-foot cold storage facility that will be located in the eastern Houston suburb of Pasadena. The Class A property will consist of two buildings on a 12-acre site that can be customized to fit a variety of cold storage needs, from bulk distribution to food processing. About 62 percent of the first building is preleased to Houston Meat Distributors. Colliers International is leasing the development, completion of which is slated for late in the third quarter.
ROME, N.Y. — In a sale-leaseback transaction, W. P. Carey has acquired a 779,000-square-foot distribution center in Rome, about 40 miles northeast of Syracuse. The purchase price was $45 million. Orgill, an independent hardware distributor, occupies the newly constructed property, which is located near Interstate 90. Orgill uses the facility as its primary regional distribution center. W. P. Carey now owns four of Orgill’s seven U.S. distribution centers. The property is triple-net leased for a period of 26 years with fixed rent escalations.
PLYMOUTH, MINN. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $82.3 million sale of Plymouth Ponds Business Park in Plymouth, about 15 miles west of downtown Minneapolis. The eight-building light industrial park sits on 60 acres at 17100 Media Road. The asset is located at the intersection of Highway 55 and County Road, providing convenient access to I-394 and I-494. Colin Ryan and David Berglund of JLL led the team that represented the buyer, Link Logistics, which was established by Blackstone in 2019. The seller was undisclosed.
ELMHURST, ILL. — Sterling Bay has begun development of a 150,000-square-foot speculative industrial building in Elmhurst. PREMIER Design + Build Group is serving as general contractor for the Class A project, which is located at 545 Lamont Road. The nine-acre site currently houses a 79,600-square-foot office building that will be razed. Completion of the project is slated for January 2022.
SAN DIEGO — An entity controlled by a joint venture between Hill Properties and Westport Capital Partners has purchased Camino Santa Fe Business Park, a seven-building industrial asset located in San Diego’s Miramar submarket. A global investment manager sold the campus for an undisclosed price. The sale also includes an 0.8-acre developable land parcel. Developed between 1983 and 1990, Camino Santa Fe Business Park consists of six multi-tenant industrial buildings and one office building located at 8320, 8340, 8360, 8375, 8380, 8395 and 8445 Camino Santa Fe. Totaling 172,743 square feet, the park features efficient ingress/egress, functional warehouse and office layouts, docks and grade loading and ample parking. Suites range from 835 square feet to 22,290 square feet. At the time of sale, the property was 91 percent leased to multiple tenants. Bryce Aberg, Jeff Cole, Jeff Chiate and Zach Harman of Cushman & Wakefield’s Industrial Investment Advisory Group in Southern California, together with Rick Reeder and Brad Tecca of the firm’s Capital Markets Group in San Diego, represented the buyer and seller in the deal. Additionally, Cushman & Wakefield’s Brant Aberg and Ryan Downing provided market leasing advisory for the transaction.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE AND NILES, ILL. — Colliers International Chicago has brokered the sale-leaseback of three industrial facilities totaling 496,744 square feet for an undisclosed price. GHP Group Inc. sold the properties to W. P. Carey. The portfolio includes a 225,006-square-foot facility at 1501 Nicholas Blvd. in Elk Grove Village and a 161,770-square-foot property at 6440 W. Howard St. in Niles. Additionally, the portfolio includes a 109,968-square-foot building in Guelph, Ontario near Toronto. Jeff Devine, Steve Disse, Brendan Green and Ron Jansen of Colliers represented Niles-based GHP Group, which is a manufacturer of seasonal products such as barbecues, heaters, fireplaces, water dispensers and filtration products.
MOUNT COMFORT, IND. — The Opus Group and Clarion Partners LLC have broken ground on two speculative industrial buildings at Point 70 Logistics Park in Mount Comfort, a northeast suburb of Indianapolis. Building A and Building B will span 802,907 square feet and 298,823 square feet, respectively. Building A will feature a clear height of 40 feet, 184 dock positions, 208 trailer stalls and 460 parking stalls. Building B will feature a clear height of 32 feet, 68 dock positions, 89 trailer stalls and 216 parking stalls. Completion of the buildings, which will sit on 88 acres, is slated for summer 2022. Opus is serving as developer, design-builder, interior designer, architect and structural engineer. Luke Wessell of Cushman & Wakefield will market the buildings for lease.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — JLL has brokered the sale of Springwood Self Storage, a 426-unit facility located at 9206 Anderson Mill Road on Austin’s north side. The three-story building was completed in 2017. All units are climate-controlled. Brian Somoza and Steve Mellon of JLL represented the seller, an entity doing business as Springwood Self Storage LLC, in the transaction. Wasatch Storage Partners purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.
HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — Henry S. Miller Brokerage has negotiated a 36,616-square-foot industrial lease in Haltom City, a suburb of Fort Worth. Dan Spika and Scott Axelrod of Henry S. Miller represented the tenant, Chicago-based L & W Supply Corp., in the lease negotiations. The representative of the landlord, Fort Worth-based Key Partners Ltd., was not disclosed.
By Tom Johnson, NAI Martens The overall Wichita economy is not out of the woods yet, but numerous factors point to a continuation of the recovery from both the Great Recession and the impact of the pandemic. Since the significant employment downturn during the second quarter of 2020, the Wichita metro area has markedly recovered but remains well below 2019 non-farm employment. The seesaw unemployment rate has now declined to just over 5 percent. All employment sectors are expected to increase from 3 to 6 percent in 2021 with retail, leisure and hospitality leading the way as restaurants and travel return to pre-pandemic levels. In the background of all the pandemic noise have been significant gains in urban development with over $1 billion of public and private sector investment since the recession. ● Residential has grown exponentially with 21 new and renovated properties representing 1,228 units with some of the highest rental rates in the city. ● With over 100 restaurants and local shops, retail has increased significantly, adding almost 500,000 square feet, a 39 percent increase with more to come. ● Starting with the Ambassador Hotel renovation, the hospitality sector has added 375 rooms with another 95 rooms in …