WILMINGTON AND METHUEN, MASS. — Locally based investment firm The Davis Cos. has purchased a portfolio of four industrial flex properties totaling 156,276 square feet in Wilmington and Methuen, two northern suburbs of Boston, for $44.2 million. The sale also included a fully entitled development site that can support up to 235,000 square feet of new product. Kerry Hawkins of JLL represented the seller, PGA Realty Co., a family-owned investment firm based in Massachusetts. The portfolio was 100 percent leased at the time of sale.
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BEDFORD PARK, ILL. — Garage Door Supplies has subleased 30,000 square feet of industrial space at 6558 W. 73rd St. in Bedford Park, a southwest suburb of Chicago. The 35,000-square-foot building features a clear height of 23 feet, five exterior dock doors and 300 car parking spaces. Jeffrey Provenza and Rollo Dace of Darwin Realty/CORFAC International represented Garage Door Supplies, which manufactures and distributes garage doors and related parts. William Strey of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sublandlord, Jerich USA. The sublease is for 18 months.
HOUSTON — A fund backed by BV Capital and Archway Properties has acquired a 79,684-square-foot showroom and warehouse in Houston that is triple-net leased to home improvement merchandiser Floor & Décor. The property is located within Park Air 59, Archway’s mixed-use development near George Bush Intercontinental Airport that was completed in late 2019. The fund will continue to target single-tenant, triple-net-leased assets in Texas.
HOUSTON — Commando Pressure Control Inc., a provider of pressure solutions for the hydraulic fracturing industry, has signed a 14,100-square-foot industrial lease renewal within Four Seasons Business Park in northwest Houston. Jack Gaffney and John Buckley of Houston-based Finial Group represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. The representative of the tenant was not disclosed.
AURORA, ILL. — Dalfen Industrial has acquired a 174,300-square-foot industrial facility located at 1103 Butterfield Road in Aurora. Built in 2004, the property is known as Butterfield Logistics Center and offers convenient access to I-88. Brendan Sheahan and Nick Krejci of Darwin Realty/CORFAC International represented Dalfen in the transaction and will lead marketing efforts for the building. Seller information and the purchase price were undisclosed. A Dallas-based industrial owner and operator, Dalfen focuses on urban infill warehouses and distribution buildings.
FREMONT, CALIF. — TA Realty has completed the sale of Fremont Research Center, a two-building portfolio in Fremont, to Kennedy Wilson Fund VI for $32.3 million. Located at 47200 Bayside Parkway and 3500 W. Warren Ave., the portfolio offers a total of 115,537 square feet of office, research and life sciences space. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to two life sciences and aerospace defense users. Intuity Medical, a medical device company, occupies the 61,824-square-foot property at 3500 W. Warren Ave., and Mercury Systems, a multinational aerospace and defense company, occupies the 53,713-square-foot property at 47200 Bayside Parkway. Steven Golubchik, Edmund Naiera, Jonathan Schaelfer, Darren Hollak and Jack Phipps of Newmark Knight Frank’s Northern California Capital Markets team represented the seller in the deal.
BridgeCore Capital Funds $8.2M Refinancing for Industrial Building in Chino, California
by Amy Works
CHINO, CALIF. — BridgeCore Capital has funded a $8.2 million loan for the refinancing of an industrial property in Chino. The undisclosed borrower required a bridge loan to refinance a maturing loan and to fund a partnership buy-out. The non-recourse loan features a 6.5 percent pay-rate during the entire loan term, with the remaining interest accruing to loan pay-off without compounding. The pay-rate structure allowed the borrower to decrease the amount of the interest reserve in order to allocate the needed loan proceeds to fund the partnership buy-out. The 76,421-square-foot property is owner-occupied by a multi-generational luxury furniture manufacturing family.
BAAR, SWITZERLAND — Partners Group has sold an industrial portfolio on the East Coast in excess of $1 billion on behalf of its institutional clients. The 8.6 million-square-foot portfolio comprises 88 shallow-bay and bulk distribution centers located across five markets: Raleigh-Durham, Atlanta, Nashville, Norfolk and Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. “We are proud to see the transformational results of the work we have done during the past three years and believe this exit represents an excellent outcome for our clients,” says Ron Lamontagne, managing director and co-head of private real estate for the Americas at Partners Group. Partners Group originally purchased the portfolio across three separate investments with Equus Capital Partners, an investment management firm based in metro Philadelphia. The buyer, an undisclosed life insurance company, is entering into two joint ventures with Equus Capital Partners to recapitalize the portfolio. The recapitalization will include one joint venture that holds assets within the portfolio with a long-term, income-focused return profile. The second joint venture will include assets suited to a shorter term, total return-driven strategy. The shallow-bay portion of the portfolio totals 3.8 million square feet and comprises 54 buildings within six industrial parks in Raleigh-Durham, as well as 19 buildings in …
RMR Mortgage Trust Arranges $34.3M Refinancing for Office/Industrial Property in Colorado Springs
by Amy Works
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — RMR Mortgage Trust (NASDAQ: RMRM) has arranged a $34.3 million first mortgage, floating-rate bridge loan for the refinancing of an office and industrial asset in Colorado Springs. The property includes a 191,000-square-foot office building and a 97,000-square-foot industrial building located at 10125 and 10205 Federal Drive. RMRM’s manager, Tremont Realty Capital, was introduced to the transaction by Essex Financial Group, which advised the sponsor, Flywheel Capital of Denver. An initial advance of $29 million was funded at closing with future advances of up to $5.3 million available for tenant improvements, leasing commissions and capital expenditures. The loan features a three-year initial term and a one-year extension option, subject to the borrower meeting certain requirements.
TEXARKANA, TEXAS — TexAmericas Center (TAC) has completed the remediation of 6,800 acres in Texarkana, located near the Texas-Arkansas border, to meet standards for commercial and industrial development. Last week, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality removed the U.S. Army’s Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) permit from the property, thus opening up the acreage for development. The land is a portion of the former Lone Star Army Ammunition plant. Remediation efforts began in 2010, and in recent years, TAC and its partners have invested more than $40 million in remediation activities and improved infrastructure to advance job and capital creation in the region. TAC is an owner-operator of one of the country’s largest industrial parks, with roughly 12,000 development-ready acres and 3.5 million square feet of commercial and industrial product serving four states.