AKRON, OHIO — Industrial Commercial Properties (ICP) has acquired the 635,000-square-foot Chapel Hill Mall in Akron for an undisclosed price. The mall is contiguous to the former Sears building and auto center, which ICP purchased last year. With the Sears property, the total acquisition amounts to 829,000 square feet on 60 acres. ICP is considering converting the mall into a multi-tenant campus or a series of industrial buildings, but detailed redevelopment plans have yet to be released. Chapel Hill Mall is ICP’s seventh acquisition in 2021, bringing the company’s portfolio to more than 150 properties in five states.
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ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Skybox Datacenters is underway on the development of Skybox Chicago I, a 189,000-square-foot data center in the suburban Chicago community of Elk Grove Village. The project is the first facility being developed as part of a new partnership between Skybox and Prologis Inc. The partnership will focus on data center markets across Chicagoland. Completion of the first facility is slated for November.
FAIRFIELD, N.J. — Ingram Micro, a California-based provider of IT products and services, has signed a 107,107-square-foot industrial lease at 116 Lehigh Drive in the Northern New Jersey community of Fairfield. Venture One Real Estate owns the single-tenant building, which was constructed on 8.2 acres in 1986. Thomas Mallaney, Nicholas Nitti, Denise Kokulak and David Remington of CBRE represented the tenant, which plans to take occupancy of the space in September, in its site selection and lease negotiations.
BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Creative Self Storage, a 391-unit facility in Brentwood, located in the southern part of the state. The property features 58,064 net rentable square feet across 357 non-climate-controlled units and 34 climate-controlled units. Nathan Coe, Brett Hatcher, Gabriel Coe and James Koury of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction. Additional terms of sale were not disclosed.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Google has announced plans to invest $7 billion in offices and data centers across the U.S. this year, creating 10,000 new full-time jobs across 19 states. The investment will include over $1 billion in the state of California; office expansions in Atlanta, Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C.; and data center expansions in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Texas. Further details on planned investments across the U.S. are below: South In the Southern U.S., Google will increase its investment in an existing South Carolina data center and its existing office campuses in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.; establish a new cloud engineering site in Durham, N.C.; open its first U.S. Google Operations Center in Southaven, Miss.; open a new office in Reston, Va.; and expand its data center in Virginia’s Loudon County. Midwest Earlier this year, Google established its first Minnesota office in Rochester and its new data centers in New Albany, Ohio, and Papillion, Neb., became operational. The company plans to expand its data center footprint in Nebraska over the course of 2021 and will begin further improvements at its Detroit, Chicago and Ann Arbor, Mich., offices. Texas Google’s new data center in Midlothian, …
DALLAS — Locally based investment firm CanTex Capital, in partnership with New York City-based Imperium Capital, has acquired a 135,000-square-foot industrial complex in Dallas. The infill property is situated on 19.2 acres in the West Brookhollow submarket, adjacent to the Dallas Design District. Jarrod McCabe and Campbell Roach of JLL arranged an undisclosed amount of acquisition financing on behalf of the partnership for the deal. The seller was not disclosed.
SAN ANTONIO — McLane Foodservice Distribution Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway-owned logistics firm McLane Co., has signed a 248,500-square-foot industrial lease at Foster Ridge Industrial Park in San Antonio. Fred Deal, Bob Luttrell, Michael Quint and Adam Faulk of Newmark represented the tenant, which is based in Temple, Texas, in the lease negotiations. Cavender & Hill represented the landlord, Foster Ridge M Owner LLC.
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. — NAI Mertz has negotiated the sale of a 116,284-square-foot industrial building located at 1700 Suckle Highway in Pennsauken, located outside of Philadelphia in the southern part of the state. The newly renovated building is situated on a 7.7-acre lot. Scott Mertz of NAI Mertz represented the landlord, The Seyon Group, in the transaction. The buyer, Scrub Daddy, a provider of cleaning tools known for its appearance on the TV show “Shark Tank,” purchased the building for $10.7 million.
ROMEOVILLE AND BEDFORD PARK, ILL. — Duke Realty (NYSE: DRE) is underway on construction of two build-to-suit industrial developments totaling 1.8 million square feet in metro Chicago. The first project is a 1.2 million-square-foot fulfillment center for Wayfair at Airport Logistics Center in Romeoville. The project is situated on nearly 82 acres at 1040 W. Renwick Road and is part of the business park’s second phase of development. Wayfair will fully occupy the facility and expects to employ as many as 500 workers during peak times of the year. Duke worked closely with tenant representative brokers John Suerth and Jon Varholak of CBRE and as well as listing brokers Jason West and Sean Henrick of Cushman & Wakefield. The second project is a 655,200-square-foot facility for a national home improvement retailer in Bedford Park. Located at 6600 W. 68th St., the property will service same-day and next-day delivery needs for customers with close proximity to I-294 and I-55. Plans call for 46 dock doors, 293 trailer spaces and 205 car spaces. Tony Kepano and Matt Mulvihill of CBRE served as the tenant representative and Chris Gary of NAI Hiffman served as the listing broker.
MICHIGAN CITY, IND. — Dallas-based privately held investment firm Mohr Capital has sold a 200,000-square-foot warehouse and outdoor storage facility in Michigan City for an undisclosed price. GAF Materials Corp. fully occupies the property, which is located at 130 Tri Quad Drive. Michigan City is situated on the south shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana. New Jersey-based Four Springs Capital Trust was the buyer. Mohr completed development of the facility in November for GAF, which is a roofing and waterproofing manufacturer.