DORAL, FLA. — Logistics firm Clover Systems has sold a 113,891-square-foot warehouse in Doral for $16.2 million. The family-owned company signed a short-term lease to remain at 1910 NW 97th Ave., which is situated nine miles east of Miami International Airport and 15 miles east of downtown Miami. The buyer was Los Angeles-based 1910 NW 97th Ave Owner LLC, an institutional investor registered in Delaware. The warehouse was originally built in 1979 and was most recently traded in 1996 for $4.7 million. Jose Sasson-Lerner of Axiom Capital Advisors represented the buyer in the transaction. Stephen DiGiacomo, Roger Zuniga and Patty Marquez of DiGiacomo Group represented the seller.
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GARLAND, TEXAS — A partnership between Dallas-based Westmount Realty Capital LLC and a fund managed by New York-based DRA Advisors has sold Dallas Food Center. The 1.1 million-square-foot cold storage facility is located in the northeastern Dallas metro of Garland. The property was originally built as a distribution center for grocer Safeway and has been renovated a number of times in subsequent decades. Westmount implemented a capital improvement program that raised the ceiling heights by 15 feet and added 90,000 square feet of freezer space. The property was 92 percent leased at the time of sale to a mix of tenants that includes Kraft Heinz. The tenants carry a weighted average of 8.75 years remaining on their leases. Jonathan Bryan and Randy Baird of CBRE represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
LAREDO, TEXAS — A partnership between Tailwind Real Estate Equities and Dallas-based Gulf Corp. is underway on construction of Tailwind II Logistics Center, a 300,000-square-foot speculative industrial facility in the South Texas city of Laredo. Tailwind II Logistics Center will feature 36-foot clear heights, 112 dock-high doors, 140 car parking spaces and 199 trailer parking spaces. CBRE is handling leasing of the project, which is expected to be complete in fall 2021.
DALLAS — Home goods discount retailer Tuesday Morning has entered into an agreement with Miami-based Rialto Capital to sell its Dallas headquarters building, located at 6250 LBJ Freeway, and three warehouses for $60 million. The deal comes several months after the Dallas-based retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing major financial losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Tuesday Morning is also closing 230 stores, or roughly a third of its total inventory, across the country. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.
WHITESTOWN, IND. — Colliers International has arranged the sale-leaseback of Whitestown Business Park Building 2, a 636,742-square-foot industrial building in Whitestown, about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The sales price was undisclosed. Constructed in 2019, the building is located at 3632 Perry Blvd. It is fully leased to Puma North America Inc. Alex Cantu, Jeff Devine and Steven Disse of Colliers represented the seller, Puma. An affiliate of Walton Street Capital, a Chicago-based real estate private equity firm, purchased the asset. The property serves as the largest of Puma’s two national distribution hubs, handling 75 percent of its e-commerce business. The sportswear retailer took occupancy of the facility in June of this year.
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.