CHICAGO — Peppercorn Capital, a Chicago-based commercial real estate development company, has sold a 70,000-square-foot warehouse in Chicago for $12 million to Prologis. The property is located at 455 N. Ashland Ave. and features a ceiling height of 22 feet and five docking systems. Peppercorn purchased the asset in 2017 and leased it to movie production and equipment companies.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A partnership between St. Louis-based developer Sansone Group and a fund backed by Brookfield Asset Management has acquired 85 acres in Northern New Jersey for the development of a 1.3 million-square-foot speculative industrial facility. The property will be located in between the townships of Monroe and South Brunswick and near the Port of Newark. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of next year and to take a year to complete.
ELIZABETH AND NEWARK, N.J. — Developers Fidelco Realty Group and Elberon Development Group will build a 140,000-square-foot cold storage facility on the Elizabeth-Newark border in Northern New Jersey. The property will be located at the site of the former Magruder Color dye and pigment manufacturing plant, which was vacated in 2006. The 10.5 million-cubic-foot building will include 18 docks and 30,000 pallet positions. New Jersey-based FreezPak Logistics will operate the facility, which is expected to be complete in fall 2021.
NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV. — Newport Beach, Calif.-based CapRock Partners has started construction on CapRock Tropical Logistics, a two-building logistics complex in North Las Vegas. Located at 5802 and 5902 E. Tropical Parkway, CapRock Tropical Logistics is situated on an 83-acre site that CapRock assembled through the acquisition of 24 parcels from 13 owners in first-quarter 2020. Totaling 1 million square feet, the park will feature a 857,060-square-foot building and a 271,262-square-foot building — both slated for delivery in the third quarter of 2021. The largest building is a build-to-suit for an undisclosed e-commerce retailer that signed a long-term lease. The tenant will also utilize approximately 17 acres of excess land south of the building that CapRock reconfigured to meet the tenant’s specifications, including providing additional parking. The smaller facility will feature 32-foot minimum clear heights, a 100 percent concrete truck court with 185-foot depth, above-standard trailer and automobile parking with 194 parking spaces and up to 57 trailer parking spaces, 54 dock-high loading doors, two drive-in doors, an ESFR sprinkler system and 3,000 amps of 277/480V, three-phase power. Rob Lujan, Xavier Wasiak and Jason Simon of JLL represented CapRock Partners in the acquisition of the land and have been …
MARION, OHIO — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of the Marion Industrial Center in Marion within central Ohio. The sales price was undisclosed. Located at 3007 Harding Highway East, the property includes more than 1.5 million square feet of warehouse and manufacturing space on 511 acres. Marion Industrial Center has direct access to the CSX rail network. There is enough land to facilitate the immediate construction of millions of square feet of new Class A warehouse space, according to Cushman & Wakefield. Whitney Kerr Jr., Michael Flynn and Mike Hurd of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, a privately held group. Grant Tidemann of J.P. Weigand Commercial partnered with the Cushman & Wakefield team on the transaction. Jaguar Transport, a transportation and logistics service company, was the buyer.
REPUBLIC, MO. — Amazon.com Inc. has unveiled plans to open a fulfillment center in Republic, about 14 miles southwest of Springfield. Construction of the 1 million-square-foot facility is expected to begin in 2021. Upon completion, Amazon expects to create more than 500 full-time jobs. Employees will pick, pack and ship bulky or lager-sized items such as patio furniture, outdoor equipment and rugs. Since 2010, Amazon has created more than 4,500 jobs in Missouri and invested more than $780 million across the state, including infrastructure and compensation to its employees.
HOUSTON — TAXA Outdoors, a provider of mobile camping trailers, has signed a 69,356-square-foot, full-building industrial lease at 7930 Blankenship Drive in northwest Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 1970 and features 22-foot clear heights and more than 10,000 square feet of office space, as well as fenced truck courts and outside storage capacity. Geoff Perrott and Jeff Venghaus of JLL represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. Nick Peterson and John Ferruzzo of Transwestern represented the landlord, Prologis.
NEW JERSEY — G.S. Wilcox & Co., a locally based mortgage banking firm, has arranged a $21 million loan for the refinancing of a 236,000-square-foot industrial property in Northern New Jersey. Gretchen Wilcox, Albert Raymond and Wesley Wilcox of G.S. Wilcox arranged the 20-year loan through Mutual of Omaha on behalf of the undisclosed borrower. The property name and location were also not disclosed.
STRATFORD, CONN. — Connecticut Distributors Inc., an importer and wholesaler of alcoholic beverages, has signed a 27,156-square-foot industrial lease at 280 Garfield Ave. in the coastal Connecticut city of Stratford. Bruce Wettenstein of Vidal/Wettenstein represented the landlord in the lease negotiations. Sean Cahill of Avison Young represented the tenant.
LOS ANGELES — Terreno Realty has purchased an industrial building, located at 2425 Porter St. in Los Angeles. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $4.4 million. Situated adjacent to Interstate 10 in downtown Los Angeles, the 13,000-square-foot building features seven dock-high loading positions and parking for 64 cars. At the time of sale, the property was fully leased to a single tenant.
