Industrial

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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HENDERSON, NEV. — Rockstream Properties has purchased an industrial building located at 1172 Wigwam Parkway in Henderson. An undisclosed seller sold the asset for $1.3 million. Situated within Traverse Pointe Commerce Center, the property features 6,170 square feet of industrial space. Greg Pancirov and Mike De Lew of RealComm Advisors represented the buyer in the deal.

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Louisville is best known for the Kentucky Derby, the premier thoroughbred horse race that has occurred every year in the city since 1875. However, there is another continuous streak that is happening in Louisville, and that is 21 straight quarters of positive net absorption for industrial real estate as of second-quarter 2020. Louisville’s central location within the Southeast and Midwest, which gives area users the ability to reach two-thirds of the U.S. population within a one-day drive, is a major driver for industrial real estate. The UPS Worldport Hub in Louisville is its only “all-points” hub in the UPS network and provides warehouse and distribution businesses with the ability to process orders later and receive earlier deliveries. This is a tremendous benefit for e-commerce, pharmaceutical, laboratory and electronics companies, among many other industries. There is continual interest from West Coast companies seeking a central location to fulfill product as customer demand for shorter delivery times increases as part of the overall customer experience. UPS Supply Chain Solutions, the third-party, full-service fulfillment subsidiary of UPS, has a significant presence in Louisville. Many of the customers for which UPS Supply Chain provides fulfillment services are pharmaceutical-related businesses that require time-critical deliveries and …

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5151-Samuell-Blvd.-Mesquite

MESQUITE, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 442,035-square-foot industrial lease in the eastern Dallas suburb of Mesquite for Best Choice Products, an e-commerce firm that provides home furniture and other consumer goods. The company’s new fulfillment and distribution center will be located at 5151 Samuell Blvd., which is located near Interstate 30 and includes 7,600 square feet of office space. Reed Parker of Lee & Associates represented Best Choice Products in the lease negotiations. Nick Thomas represented the landlord, Prologis, on an internal basis. Nathan Orbin, Kurt Griffin and Ann Jaggers of Cushman & Wakefield marketed the property on behalf of Prologis. Best Choice Products has already hired 30 employees as part of the effort to make the facility operational in time for the holiday shopping season. The Tustin, Calif.-based firm expects to hire another 50 workers on a temporary, seasonal basis.

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ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Dot It Restaurant Fulfillment has signed a 134,272-square-foot industrial lease at 4200 Empire Road in Arlington. The company is more than doubling its footprint of 60,000 square feet at its previous space at 2001 E. Randol Mill Road. Luke Davis and Matt Dornak of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, ML Realty Partners, in the lease negotiations. John Brewer and Riley Maxwell of Transwestern represented Dot It, which provides food safety products and print fulfillment solutions for the food and beverage industry.  

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