AUSTIN AND SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS — Talonvest Capital Inc. has arranged two bridge loans totaling $12.7 million for the refinancing of two self-storage facilities in Texas. The properties total 1,339 units across 161,670 net rentable square feet. One of the properties is located at 11000 Lakeline Blvd. in Austin, and the other is located at 2030 E. Continental Blvd. in the Fort Worth suburb of Southlake. An undisclosed life insurance company provided the funds to the borrower, a partnership between Houston-based self-storage developer The Jenkins Organization and its private equity partner, Clark Investment Group.
SAN ANTONIO — Owner-operator H5 Data Centers will undertake a 5,000-square-foot expansion project at its 80,000-square-foot colocation facility located at 100 Taylor St. in San Antonio. The project will add Tier III infrastructure capacity to the facility. Data center tiers refer to the requirements of distribution paths, cooling and other components that are used to differentiate facilities. A timeline for the project was not released.
MALDEN, MASS. — JLL has negotiated the $7.3 million sale of a 50,000-square-foot industrial property in the northern Boston suburb of Malden. The property is located on 1.8 acres at 60 Winter St. in a Qualified Opportunity Zone and was fully leased at the time of sale of sale to aerospace and defense contractor Enjet Aero. Michael Restivo and Matthew Sherry of JLL represented the seller, a private family, in the transaction. Eastern Real Estate acquired the asset in an off-market transaction.
BOLINGBROOK AND WOODRIDGE, ILL. — Lee & Associates has negotiated three industrial transactions in Chicago’s I-55 corridor. In the first transaction, Tom Condon of Lee & Associates represented the buyer, Provender Partners, in the purchase of an 81,000-square-foot building located at 525 W. Crossroads Parkway in Bolingbrook. Vern Schultz of Colliers International represented the seller, West Liberty Foods. Second, Jeff Galante of Lee & Associates represented Champion Packaging in its 283,436-square-foot lease renewal and expansion at 2501 Internationale Parkway in Woodridge. Prologis owns the building. Last, Galante, along with colleagues Terry Grapenthin and Ryan Earley, represented owner Pritzker Realty Group on a 406,777-square-foot lease renewal at 555 Saint James Gate in Bolingbrook. The tenant was undisclosed.
As companies extend their work-from-home policies for many traditional office jobs, office leasing in general is undergoing re-evaluation and leasing is slowing. But one sector of office space continues growing as space remains essential: life sciences office, laboratory and manufacturing space. Nowhere does this hold truer than in the Research Triangle in North Carolina. The Triangle occupies a position of power as one of the top five major life sciences centers in the United States. STEM-oriented institutions including Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University provide education, research opportunities and employment for the area’s highly educated workforce. Large life sciences companies (including giants such as Glaxo Smith Kline, Biogen, Lilly and Pfizer) have taken advantage of the area’s lower cost of living to set up research labs and manufacturing space to support technology and healthcare work. A tenant and buyer representative for life sciences, technology and healthcare clients, Marlene Spritzer, Vice President of Lee & Associates Raleigh Durham, has witnessed firms from around the country relocate to the Triangle for years. Even before the pandemic, the area was attractive to businesses due to its wealth of resources and mild climate as well as …
MADISON, N.J. — New Jersey-based PGIM Real Estate has acquired a portfolio of 15 industrial buildings totaling 4.7 million square feet for $425 million. Four of the buildings are located in the Atlanta metros of Lithia Springs, Buford and Union City. Six of the buildings are located in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, and two are located in the Phoenix suburb of Avondale. The remaining three buildings are located in the Denver area, but the addresses and submarkets of those assets were not disclosed. All of these developments are newly constructed projects or are nearing completion. In addition, the properties all feature 32- to 36-foot clear heights and ample dock doors, which the new ownership cites as key features in marketing to e-commerce users. “COVID-19 has not only supported the continued rise of e-commerce and distribution demand across the United States, but it has also significantly accelerated the existing trend,” says Cathy Marcus, global chief operating officer and head of U.S. equity for PGIM Real Estate. “As many more retailers and international corporations enter the U.S. industrial market or expand their presence in the sector, these state-of-the-art properties will be an attractive component of our broader industrial portfolio.” “This transaction …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — RealOp Investments has sold an industrial property located at 11524 Wilmar Blvd. in southwest Charlotte for $14.1 million. Greenville, S.C.-based RealOp acquired the 298,753-square-foot property in 2018 and signed MSS Solutions to a lease. The HVAC service provider acquired the property from RealOp. The building is located 12 miles south of Charlotte Douglas International Airport and 11 miles south of downtown Charlotte.
HAMILTON, N.J. — PCCP has provided a $98 million senior loan for the construction of Mercer Industrial Park, a 1.2 million-square-foot industrial development in Hamilton Township, located just outside of Trenton. The borrower is a joint venture between Hilco Redevelopment Partners and Edge Principal Advisors, which acquired the 132-acre former power plant in late 2018 and embarked on intensive demolition and site work. Mercer Industrial Park will consist of an 846,078-square-foot cross-dock building as well as a 384,895-square-foot partial cross-dock building with a combined 358 trailer parking spaces and 1,248 car surface parking spaces. Both buildings will feature 40-foot clear heights. Completion is scheduled for early 2021.
YONKERS, N.Y. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged an $80 million loan for the refinancing of a 435,000-square-foot industrial asset located at 555 Tuckahoe Road in Yonkers, located north of New York City. The property was built in 1963. J.P. Morgan Asset Management provided the fixed-rate loan to the borrower, Alfred Weissman Real Estate LLC. Gideon Gil, Zachary Kraft and Meredith Donovan of Cushman & Wakefield handled the transaction.
HOUSTON — Davis Commercial Real Estate has brokered the sale of a 19,500-square-foot warehouse located at 3007 Crossview Drive in West Houston. According to LoopNet Inc., the property was built in 1975 and was most recently used as an automotive storage and repair facility. Ashley Casterlin of Davis Commercial represented the seller, private investor Juan Alonso, in the transaction. Additional terms of sale were not disclosed.