BROOKSHIRE, TEXAS — Locally based developer Realty1 Partners has broken ground on Point West Distribution Center, a 133,900-square-foot industrial project in the western Houston suburb of Brookshire. The property will be situated on 10.5 acres and will feature 32-foot clear heights, extra trailer parking and an ESFR sprinkler system. Tramonte Design Studio is the architect for the project, and Arch-Con Corp. is the general contractor. Boyd Commercial is the leasing agent. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter.
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based development and investment firm Innovo Property Group (IPG) has received a $155 million construction loan for a 900,000-square-foot industrial project in the Long Island City area of Queens. The site previously housed the warehouse of online grocer FreshDirect. Innovo will redevelop the property to function as a last-mile distribution facility with elevated truck courts and a vertical parking structure. An affiliate of Starwood Property Trust provided the loan. IPG acquired the asset in January 2019 with Atalaya Capital Management and Nan Fung Group for $75 million. Since then, the partnership has demolished the existing warehouse.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — NAI Mertz has brokered the sale of a 61,000-square-foot industrial building in Mount Laurel, located outside Philadelphia in Bergen County. The property is located just off I-295 near the New Jersey Turnpike and Routes 70 and 73. Jonathan Klear, Fred Meyer, Roy Kardon, Jeff Licht and Jared Licht of NAI Mertz represented the buyer, industrial investment firm Faropoint, in the transaction. The seller was not disclosed.
CALABASAS, CALIF. — Gantry has arranged a total of $364 million in long-term refinancing for Calabasas-based The Ezralow Co. for 15 separate self-storage and industrial assets in California. Paige Serden, Peter Welsh, Braden Turnbull and Josh Natker of Gantry’s Los Angeles production office structured the loans, which were sourced from four separate life insurance companies, three of which are Gantry’s correspondent lenders. Totaling 1.75 million square feet, the 12 Price Self Storage-operated properties are located in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino and Contra Counties. The three industrial properties offer a total of 428,000 square feet of multi-tenant space in Southern California.
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — An undisclosed global provider of wireless telecommunications services has signed a 274,994-square-foot industrial lease at Lakeside Ranch Business Park in the Fort Worth suburb of Flower Mound. The tenant will occupy the entirety of Lakeside Ranch 350, a building that was developed speculatively by Indianapolis-based Duke Realty. Mark Miller, Rick Medinis and Randy Wood of NAI Robert Lynn, along with internal agent Matt Hyman, represented Duke Realty in the lease negotiations. Mitchell Wolf of Newmark represented the tenant.
BRANDON, FLA. — HGreg.com, a pre-owned automotive retailer, has expanded to a 10-acre property in the Tampa Bay Area. The retailer plans to open its new regional fulfillment center and dealership in Brandon this spring. Construction costs are estimated at more than $30 million. Located at 1207 E Brandon Blvd. in Hillsborough County, the new facility will feature a 42,000-square-foot building, a showroom and an inventory of more than 1,000 pre-owned vehicles. The new property will allow HGreg.com to expand its service offering, both digital and onsite, to car buyers throughout Central and West Coast Florida, as well as out-of-state markets. HGreg.com plans to fill 90 jobs in its new facility. HGreg.com is part of HGregoire, a network of 17 pre-owned and 13 new car dealerships throughout Canada and the United States. In December 2020, the company announced the expansion of HGreg.com into the West Coast with a major investment based in the Greater Los Angeles area.
WOODLAND PARK, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of Lackawanna Business Park, a 140,548-square-foot industrial complex located at 86 Lackawanna Ave. in Woodland Park in the northern part of the state. The sales price for the three-building complex was $10.2 million. Andrew Schwartz, David Bernhaut, Gary Gabriel, Kyle Schmidt, Frank DiTommaso and Jordan Sobel of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Lackawanna Associates LLC, and procured the buyer, Lackawanna Woodland LLC.
TOLLESON, ARIZ. — The Phoenix business unit of Trammel Crow, in partnership with Clarion Partners, has purchased a 25-acre site for the development of Tolleson 107 Logistics Center. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Located in Tolleson, the 332,075-square-foot logistics facility will include 4.6 acres dedicated to retail space. Butler Design Group designed the asset, which will feature 36-foot clear heights, concrete truck courts, four point of access, 52-foot by 52-foot column spacing with 60-foot speed bays, 266 car parking stalls, 54 trailer parking stalls and an ESFR sprinkler system. Groundbreaking is slated for April, with tenancy ready by year-end. Phil Haenel, Andy Markham and Mike Haenel of Cushman & Wakefield are handling leasing of the project.
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. — Global One Logistics has inked a deal to lease LogistiCenter at Park Meridian in Riverside. The third-party warehousing and distribution specialist serving the home fashion and apparel industry will occupy the Class A building located at 21822 Opportunity Way in the Inland Empire East submarket. The property totals 262,260 square feet. Phil Lombardo, Chuck Belden, Andrew Starnes and Cruise Adams of Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Dermody Partners, in the lease.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — CapRock Partners has acquired, leased or sold nearly 10 million square feet of industrial space across the Western United States and opened two offices in Phoenix and Northern California, welcoming 26 new employees, according to the Newport Beach-based firm. CapRock Partners signed 10 leases totaling more than 5.3 million square feet; acquired eight properties and land sites totaling 4.2 million square feet; and sold 196,534 square feet across two properties. Additionally, an institutional investor retained the company to manage a six-asset, 1.9 million-square-foot industrial real estate portfolio that spans four markets. These transactions bring CapRock’s total investment, development and asset management pipeline to more than 25 million total square feet since inception in 2009. On the development side, the company completed more than 4.1 million square feet of Class A industrial product across the Las Vegas basin and Inland Empire, including the 3 million-square-foot Commerce Center in Ontario, California, which CapRock developed on behalf of Ivanhoé Cambridge. Since March 2020, the company started construction of an additional 2.8 million square feet and successfully received entitlements for over 3 million square feet in multiple projects across the Inland Empire. This brings CapRock’s total either recently constructed or …