KATY, TEXAS — JLL has negotiated the sale of an 805,601-square-foot industrial facility situated on 54.1 acres at 22525 Clay Road in Katy, a western suburb of Houston. The newly built facility was constructed as a build-to-suit for an e-commerce tenant, which the Houston Chronicle reports is Amazon. Building features include 40-foot clear heights, 190-foot truck court depths and an ESFR sprinkler system. Trent Agnew, Rusty Tamlyn, Charles Strauss, Tom Weber and Jack Britton of JLL represented the seller, an undisclosed publicly traded REIT, in the transaction. An affiliate of Chicago-based Walton Street Capital purchased the asset for an undisclosed price. Colby Mueck, Michael Johnson and Molly Leinsdorf of JLL placed floating-rate acquisition financing through Wells Fargo on behalf of the buyer.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Newmark has negotiated a 257,500-square-foot industrial lease extension at 4900 Alliance Gateway in Fort Worth. Louis Pascuzzi, Jim Cooksey, Trace Elrod, Chris Mason, John Beach, Reggie Beavan III, Andy Iversen, David Creiner, Brad Mason and Jack Brewer of Newmark represented the tenant, Ed Tucker Distributor Inc., in the lease negotiations.
CINCINNATI — TradeLane Properties has acquired Capital Center Industrial Park, a 14-building portfolio of light industrial assets in Cincinnati. The purchase price was $51.3 million. Spanning 896,523 square feet, the industrial park is 93.5 percent leased to 65 tenants. Mostly completed in the 1970s, the buildings have received substantial capital improvements over time. John Huguenard, Kurt Sarbaugh and Mark Volkman of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller, Dalfen Industrial. Erin Casey and Drew Wall of Colliers International have been selected as the listing agents for the properties.
SALT LAKE CITY — Industrial Outdoor Ventures (IOV) has purchased a vacant industrial facility located at 5 S. 5100 West in Salt Lake City. Standlee Premium Western Forage sold the asset for an undisclosed price. Situated on 23.2 acres and zoned M-1, the property features a 66,900-square-foot warehouse equipped with 11 dock doors and 2,000-square-foot of office space. IOV plans to make major site improvements to 16 acres of the property’s land area including grading, paving, fencing and site lighting. Additionally, the buyer plans to paint the exterior of the building, upfit warehouse lighting and prepare the office space for tenants. The transaction marks IOV’s entry to the Salt Lake City market. Mike Farmer and Phillip Eilers of Cushman & Wakefield brokered the transaction.
ELGIN, ILL. — Conor Commercial Real Estate has completed the lease-up of Building Two at Northwest Pointe III in Elgin. Continental Packaging leased 48,360 square feet on the west side, while an undisclosed plastics company leased 137,522 square feet on the east side. Both companies will use the property for warehouse and office space. Ken Franzese and John Cassidy of Lee & Associates represented Conor in the lease transactions. Dan Benassi of Entre Commercial Realty represented the plastics company while Jimmy Kowalczyk and David Saad of CBRE represented Continental Packaging. The 163,080-square-foot Building One is still available. Northwest Pointe III is Conor’s third development within Northwest Corporate Park.
NEW YORK CITY — Art logistics company Maquette Fine Art Services has signed an industrial lease expansion at The Matsil Building in the Long Island City area of Queens. The company has committed to an additional 56,200 square feet to bring its total footprint to 150,910 square feet. Chris Pachios and Forrest Mas of North River Co., which owns the 282,350-square-foot property in a joint venture with North Colony Asset Management, negotiated the lease. The deal brings the building, which also houses tenants such as Ralph Lauren and Motorola, to full occupancy. Maquette also recently opened a new storage and operating facility in metro Boston.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Commercial and multifamily mortgage loan originations were 18 percent lower in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to a year ago, and increased 76 percent from the third quarter of 2020, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Quarterly Survey of Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Bankers Originations. A decrease in originations for hotel, retail, office and healthcare properties led the overall decline in lending volumes when compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. There was a 79 percent year-over-year decrease in the dollar volume of loans for hotel properties, 72 percent dip for retail properties, 6 percent decline for office properties and a 12 percent decrease for healthcare properties. Industrial property loan originations increased 15 percent, while multifamily property lending rose 14 percent. Jamie Woodwell, MBA’s vice president of commercial research, says that unsurprisingly the data shows that the property types most affected by the pandemic struggled to transact. “Borrowing and lending remain weakest for the property types most impacted by the pandemic — particularly hotel and retail buildings,” says Woodwell. “Multifamily, led by government-backed financing from FHA, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, continued to see the strongest commercial mortgage activity.” Among investor types, the dollar volume of loans …
MCKINNEY, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated two industrial leases totaling 91,992 square feet at McKinney Trade Center, an industrial development by ML Realty that is located on 24 acres in the northern Dallas suburb of McKinney. Blount Fine Foods Corp. preleased 28,212 square feet, and L&S Plumbing Partnership Ltd. preleased 63,780 square feet. Adam Graham and Ken Wesson of Lee & Associates represented ML Realty in both sets of lease negotiations. Brett Lewis of Lee & Associates represented Blount Fine Foods, and Kent Smith and Stephen Cooper of NAI Robert Lynn represented L&S Plumbing.
MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN — Colliers International has brokered the sale of a six-building industrial portfolio spanning 1.2 million square feet in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The sales price was undisclosed. One of the buildings is in Lino Lakes, Minn.; two are in Pewaukee, Wis.; two are in Milwaukee; and one is in Menomonie, Wis. Tom Shepherd and Mark Kolsrud of Colliers brokered the transaction. All six properties are fully leased. Minneapolis-based Biynah Industrial Partners and Maryland-based Alex Brown Realty Inc. sold the portfolio to Kansas-based Platform Ventures.
BARTLETT, ILL. — Lee & Associates has arranged the sale of a newly constructed, 207,575-square-foot industrial building located at 1560 W. Stearns Road in Bartlett. The sales price was undisclosed. Situated in DuPage County’s Brewster Creek Logistics Park, the property features a clear height of 32 feet, 28 dock doors and parking for 246 cars. Mark Baumhart of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Platinum Converting, a provider of finishing services to the print and graphic arts industry. Platinum plans to relocate from its Itasca facility this summer. Adam Marshall and Mark Deady of Newmark represented the seller, Logistics Property Co.