Industrial

WEST DUNDEE, ILL. — The Opus Group has completed the headquarters for WEN Power Tools in West Dundee, a far northwest Chicago suburb. The 180,623-square-foot build-to-suit features 4,000 square feet of office space, a 1,900-square-foot showroom, 21 dock doors, two drive-in doors and a clear height of 32 feet. Additionally, there is a 2,000-square-foot office buildout on the north side of the building that WEN will lease out on a short-term basis. WEN consolidated its three local facilities and workforce to streamline warehouse and distribution operations at the new headquarters. Opus provided development services and also served as design-builder, interior designer, architect and structural engineer. This is the eighth project that Opus has completed in Oakview Corporate Park.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Stan Johnson Co. has arranged the sale-leaseback of a 50,000-square-foot industrial facility located at 705 S. Girls School Road in Indianapolis. The sales price was undisclosed. Katie Elliott of Stan Johnson marketed the property with Chip Sipple of Lincoln Property Co. on behalf of the seller, Applied Composites Inc. A New York-based investor group was the buyer. The seller is a manufacturer of composites with expertise in the commercial aerospace, defense and space industry. Composites are formed from the combination of two or more constituent materials. The seller executed a long-term triple net lease at closing.

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HANOVER, MD. — HLNP LLC has sold Last-Mile @ BWI, an industrial outdoor storage site located at 1200 Stoney Run Road in Hanover, for $21.1 million. The industrial-zoned land is 100 percent leased and was sold to NorthBridge Partners. Cris Abramson, Brian Kruger, Ben McCarty and Nicholas Signor of Newmark brokered the sale. Located directly adjacent to Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI), Last Mile @ BWI sits on 13.6 acres within Baltimore Commons Industrial Park, a 34-building campus spanning 4.1 million square feet. The site includes about nine acres of paved parking and storage and offers the potential to build Class A industrial product in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor.

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DALLAS — CA Industrial, a subsidiary of Chicago-based development and investment firm CA Ventures, will build a 200,000-square-foot logistics and last-mile delivery facility in the Great Southwest submarket of Dallas. The project, which will be branded 2700 Avenue K, will feature 36-foot clear heights, 33 dock doors, 190-foot truck court depths and abundant trailer parking. Construction is expected to begin this summer and to be complete in the second half of 2022. Stream Realty Partners represented CA Industrial in its acquisition of the land and will also handle leasing of the facility upon completion.

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DALLAS — Gulf Relay, a third-party logistics company based in Mississippi, has signed a 350,150-square-foot industrial lease at Crossroads Trade Center 1 in South Dallas. The company currently operates out of Coppell, and the new lease raises its total footprint in the metroplex to roughly 460,000 square feet. Ward Richmond and James Ewing of Colliers International represented Gulf Relay in the lease negotiations. Kurt Griffin and Nathan Orbin of Cushman & Wakefield, along with internal agents Jack Stamets and Andy Lowe, represented the landlord, New York-based Clarion Partners.

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AURORA, ILL. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of Butterfield VI Distribution Center, a 503,244-square-foot facility in Aurora, located about 40 miles west of Chicago. Situated on 34.5 acres at 2350 Frieder Lane, the warehouse features a clear height of 36 feet and parking for 125 trailers and 286 cars. Built in 2020, the property is 66 percent leased to LGSTX Distribution Services. It is located within the larger Butterfield Center for Business and Industry. Jeff Devine and Steve Disse of Colliers represented the seller, a partnership between Sterling Bay Industrial, Development Resources Inc. and Levy Family Partners. An institutional investment advisor purchased the asset for an undisclosed price.

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LEXINGTON, MICH. — In a sale-leaseback transaction, MAG Capital Partners LLC has purchased a 196,000-square-foot industrial manufacturing facility in Lexington, part of Michigan’s Thumb region. The purchase price was undisclosed. Situated on 27.5 acres along Lake Huron and located approximately 80 miles northeast of Detroit, the facility provides direct access to Route 25. Built in 1960 and fully renovated in 2017, the property features nine dock doors, 10 drive-in doors and ceiling heights ranging from 18 to 26 feet. Mary Garnett and Jim Tuesley of Barnes & Thornburg LLP represented MAG Capital Partners in the transaction. Newmark’s JC Ascensio, Tyrell McGee, Andrew Sandquist and Briggs Goldberg represented the seller, an undisclosed manufacturing company. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, MAG Capital Partners is led by Dax Mitchell and Andrew Gi.

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CARTERET, N.J. — Crow Holdings Industrial will develop a 1.2 million-square-foot speculative industrial facility on a 126-acre site in the Northern New Jersey community of Carteret. The development will consist of three buildings ranging in size from 335,000 to 480,000 square feet that will feature 40-foot clear heights, 174 dock doors, 140 trailer parking spaces and six drive-in ramps. Crow Holdings acquired the site from Rahway Arch Properties and plans to begin construction this summer. Cushman & Wakefield has been tapped to lease the project.

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READING, PA. — North Carolina-based South Atlantic Packaging Corp. has signed a 133,055-square-foot industrial lease at 1091 Arnold Road in the Eastern Pennsylvania city of Reading. CBRE represented the landlord, an affiliate of Link Logistics Real Estate, in the lease negotiations. Del Markward of Markward Group represented the tenant.

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HENDERSON, NEV., AND AURORA, ILL. — PGIM Real Estate, on behalf of its U.S. core-plus debt fund, has provided a $41 million loan facility to Dalfen Industrial for the acquisition of a Class A industrial portfolio in the Las Vegas and Chicago metro areas. Totaling 438,000 square feet, the portfolio includes AirParc South and Suncrest Commerce Center in Henderson, plus Butterfield Logistics Center in Aurora. The loan features a three-year term with two one-year extension options. Trevor Arnholt of PGIM Real Estate originated the loan on the firm’s behalf.

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