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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
LANSING, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $2.5 million sale of a 45,000-square-foot industrial building located at 2200 Bernice Road in Lansing, a southern suburb of Chicago. National Express Transit occupies the property on a net-lease basis. The company operates and repairs buses for southern Cook County locally. It also operates public transportation services in North America, Europe and Africa. Peter Doughty of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. He also secured and represented the buyer, a private investor.
METHUEN, MASS. — CBRE has arranged the sale of two industrial buildings totaling 362,252 square feet in Methuen, located north of Boston near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border. The sales price was approximately $64.1 million. One of the buildings is a 291,400-square-foot cold storage facility that was built in 1985 and renovated in 1990. The other is a 70,872-square-foot property that was built in 1989. The buildings were fully leased at the time of sale to Shaw’s Supermarkets and McCollister’s Transportation Group, respectively. Scott Dragos, Douglas Jacoby, Chris Skeffington and Daniel Hines of CBRE represented the seller, Equity Industrial Properties, in the transaction.
VANCOUVER, WASH. — New Blueprint Partners and Rabina have purchased The Vancouver Technology Center located at 18110 SE 34th St. in East Vancouver. Terms of the transaction were not released. The new owners have renamed the 700,000-square-foot campus Vancouver Innovation Center and plan to implement a multi-million-dollar repositioning program to transform the property into a best-in-class office/industrial flex campus. Built in 1980, the current campus features six buildings with office, flex and light manufacturing space; an exterior courtyard; community garden; park area; and basketball and volleyball courts. The new owners plan to create new building entrances, new common areas, indoor and outdoor amenities and energy-efficient building systems. The partnership’s long-term plan includes the addition of new uses to the campus that will create a live-work-play environment that connects residential, office, manufacturing and retail uses with a network of public pathways, parks and common spaces. Once complete, the campus will be part of a connected community with all components within a 20-minute walk. Evan Pariser, Marko Kazanjian, Nicco Lupo and Casey Davidson of JLL Capital Markets arranged acquisition financing for the buyers.