CHICAGO — Meade Inc. and Central States Trucking have signed leases to occupy space at a three-building industrial park located at 2217 S. Loomis St. in Chicago. Dayton Street Partners owns the property, which is now fully leased. Meade will occupy 25,326 square feet while Central States Trucking will lease 4,000 square feet. Kevin Segerson and Philip DeBoer of CBRE and Peter Poulos of Peter J. Real Estate represented the tenants.
DALLAS — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the sale of a portfolio of 80 office and light industrial buildings totaling approximately 2.3 million square feet that are located across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. About 75 percent, or 61 of the buildings totaling 1.7 million square feet, are light industrial facilities, and the remainder are office assets. Jud Clements, Robby Rieke, Taylor Starnes and Macki McKim of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, locally based investment firm Momentum Commercial Realty, in the transaction. California-based CIP Real Estate purchased the portfolio for an undisclosed price.
DENVER — IPI Partners has purchased a three-story primary data center located at 1500 Champa St. in downtown Denver. Morgan Reed Group sold the asset for an undisclosed price. IPI Partners plans to further develop the 138,000-square-foot center’s connectivity ecosystems and colocation capacity. Currently, the property can support approximately 10 megawatts of power and offer a robust “Meet-Me-Room,” a space telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data. Fred Mobley, Charles Borges and Andrew Gross of Matthews Real Estate Investment Services represented the buyer in the transaction.
PEABODY, MASS. — Locally based private equity firm Brookwood Financial Partners has sold 300 Jubilee, a 167,063-square-foot industrial building in Peabody, a northeastern suburb of Boston, for $43.1 million. Brookwood, which originally acquired the asset in 2009 for $8 million, sold the facility to an affiliate of Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. At the time of sale, the property was 97 percent leased to a tenant roster that includes Thermo Fisher Scientific, International Transportation Group and Barton Associates. Colliers represented Brookwood in the transaction.
LAWRENCE, MASS. — Locally based brokerage firm ABG Commercial Realty has negotiated the $15.7 million sale of a 90,692-square-foot industrial property in Lawrence, located north of Boston near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. The property was built on 6.2 acres in 1968 and renovated in 2014. At the time of sale, the facility was fully leased to logistics firm Mainstream Global. The buyer was a joint venture between Boston-based Oliver Street Capital and an undisclosed institutional investor. The seller was also not disclosed.
NEW YORK CITY — Global logistics operator Realterm has acquired a 130,000-square-foot warehouse located in the Maspeth neighborhood of Queens. The building, which has 15 loading positions, sits on 5.2 acres at 50-35 56th Road, roughly five miles from LaGuardia Airport. The property was fully leased at the time of sale. Eastdil Secured represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. Isaac Ilkhanov of Stelth Group represented Realterm.
By Dan MacDavid, Principal, AO Mixed-use industrial has become a significant economic driver in the Inland Empire. Cities are benefiting from business synergies, additional tax revenue, high-quality design and civic engagement that builds community. The recent mixed-use trend can be attributed to one key change: the significant growth in size and scale of industrial master plans over the past few decades, combined with a new approach to industrial as a partial result of the pandemic. After the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. economy has managed to make a comeback in ways that are unique and new to the commercial real estate industry, specifically in the mixed-use industrial sector. The Inland Empire — historically regarded as a key industrial market — saw record-level demand for industrial space as online sales surged during the pandemic. Some 19.1 million square feet of industrial space was leased in the fourth quarter of 2020. This was down slightly from 19.8 million square feet in the third quarter, according to JLL’s fourth-quarter market report. Despite 19.7 million square feet of new product being delivered in 2020, supply still lags demand. Data from the second quarter of 2020 shows there are no signs of slowing in this sector, particularly in …
MIAMI — JLL Capital Markets has secured a $73.4 million refinancing loan for a five-property industrial portfolio totaling 713,481 square feet in Doral, Medley, Miami and Cooper City. Greg Nalbandian, Jim Cadranell, Maxx Carney and Michael Lachs of JLL arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, metro Philadelphia-based Seagis Property Group LP. An undisclosed correspondent life insurance company provided the 10-year, fixed-rate, interest-only loan. The 12-building portfolio includes Class A and B properties located at 8305 NW 27th St. in Doral; 8150 NW 76th St. and 2101 NW 82nd St. in Medley; 3000 NW 125th St. in Miami; and the nine-building Cooper Commerce Center located at 2229-12260 SW 53rd St. and 12323 SW 55th St. in Cooper City. The portfolio was 99 percent leased at the time of the financing to 67 tenants. All the buildings feature efficient loading and clear heights ranging from 21 to 24 feet.
DALLAS — Dallas-based Rosewood Property Co. has acquired a portfolio of 16 self-storage facilities totaling approximately 1.3 million net rentable square feet across roughly 12,000 units. The locations of the properties are split among 12 states, with three facilities in Texas. Aaron Swerdlin, Kenneth Cox and Taucha Hogue of Newmark represented the seller, Utah-based REIT Extra Space Storage, in the transaction. Jim Davies, Erich Pryor and Tom Sherlock of Talonvest Capital represented Rosewood Property Co. Extra Space Storage will continue to manage the majority of the properties. The acquisition brings Rosewood’s self-storage portfolio to 73 facilities across 21 states totaling more than 5.8 million square feet and approximately 44,500 units.
DALLAS — A partnership between locally based development and investment firm Eider Creek Capital and a fund backed by Crow Holdings has broken ground on Mountain Creek East Logistics Center, a 467,541-square-foot speculative industrial project in southwest Dallas. Ricardo Quinones of Davidson Bogel Real Estate represented the development team in its acquisition of the four-parcel, 25-acre site on which the project will be developed. Completion is slated for August. CBRE has been tapped to lease the development.