SAN FRANCISCO — JLL Capital Markets has secured $991.8 million in financing for a 17-property portfolio totaling more than 7 million square feet across seven states, including California, Arizona, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Massachusetts. The portfolio’s five office assets comprise the majority of the asset’s value, with the remaining properties consisting of nine industrial facilities and three multifamily communities. The commercial property portfolio is leased to a diverse mix of tenants from a variety of industries, including financial services, media, software, government, food, law, internet, e-commerce and healthcare. Further details on the assets were not disclosed. The JLL team worked on behalf of CalSTRS and its advisor, PCCP, to arrange the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with New York Life Insurance Co. Kevin MacKenzie, Bruce Ganong, Brian Torp, Spencer Bergthold, Sam Godfrey, Bercut Smith and Andie Fezell of JLL represented the borrower in the financing.
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DALLAS — Stream Realty Partners has brokered the sale of a 42,420-square-foot industrial warehouse located at 8400 Ambassador Row in northwest Dallas. The property was fully leased to two tenants at the time of sale. Jamie Jennings, Jason Moser and Andre Rabinovich of Stream Realty Partners represented the seller, a Dallas-based private partnership, in the transaction. The buyer was locally based investment firm PrattCo Creekway.
TOMBALL, TEXAS — PDGL Partners LP has purchased 2.8 acres in the northern Houston suburb of Tomball for the development of a 39,000-square-foot industrial project. The multi-tenant office/warehouse property will be constructed on a speculative basis and will be located within Tomball Business & Technology Park. The groundbreaking is slated for late 2020. Tom Condon Jr. of Colliers International represented the seller, Tomball Economic Development Corp., in the land sale.
NEW YORK CITY AND BOSTON — JLL has arranged the sale of three-property self-storage portfolio totaling 3,596 units. The facilities are located in the greater New York City and Boston areas. The assets were all constructed in 2018 or 2019 and are located at 5002 2nd Ave. in Brooklyn; 479 5th Ave. in New Rochelle; and 490 Eastern Ave. in metro Boston. Steve Mellon, Brian Somoza, Andrew Scandalios and Coleman Benedict of JLL represented the sellers, affiliates of Banner Real Estate Group. The team also procured the buyer, an affiliate of California-based REIT Public Storage.
WEST POINT, GA. — Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Inc. (KMMG) will temporarily halt production at its West Point facility starting Monday, March 30 and is planned to reopen Monday, April 13 in the face of the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak. While operations are suspended, KMMG will perform additional cleaning and disinfecting processes of workstations throughout the plant. The factory produces 340,000 vehicles annually, including the Telluride CUV, Sorento CUV and Optima midsize sedan. The facility spans 2,200 acres and operates 24 hours per day.
SCHERTZ, TEXAS — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated the $25.7 million sale of a 101,347-square-foot industrial building that is fully leased to FedEx Freight in the Central Texas city of Schertz. John Kuhn, David Tighe and Daniel McBride of Cushman & Wakefield represented the buyer, S&B Detrick LP, in the transaction. Mollie Alteri Joey Odom, Mike Sladich, and Maggie Holmes of Stan Johnson Co. represented the seller.
PASADENA, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has negotiated a 29,954-square-foot industrial lease at 4111 Greenshadow Drive in Pasadena, an eastern suburb of Houston. Reed Vestal and Taylor Schmidt of Lee & Associates represented the landlord, Vigavi Zen LLC, in the lease negotiations. Carlton Anderson of CBRE represented the tenant, plastics fabricator Johnson Controls Inc.
Trammell Crow, Diamond Realty to Develop 403,648 SF Industrial Property Near Atlanta
by Alex Tostado
NEWNAN, GA. — A joint venture between Trammell Crow Co. and Diamond Realty Investments will develop Innovation Business Center, a two-building, 403,648-square-foot industrial property in Newnan. The North Building will span 201,740 square feet and the South Building will include 201,908 square feet. The developers expect the property to be completed at the end of the year. The single-story buildings are situated at 185 and 195 Innovation Way, 36 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta and 27 miles from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Each building will feature 32-foot clear heights, 60-foot dock bays, a 185-foot truck court with 115 trailer spaces, 375 automobile parking spaces and an ESFR fire sprinkler system. Ware Malcomb is the project’s architect, Catamount Constructors is the general contractor, Eberly & Associates is the civil engineer and landscape architect, Haines Gipson & Associates is the structural engineer and Jordan & Skala Engineers is the MEP engineer. Mark Hawks, Todd Barton and Joanna Blaesing of CBRE are handling the marketing and leasing of the property.
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has not only impacted the physical health of humans around the world, but the health of the U.S. economy as well. While the stock market rallied over 11 percent on Tuesday, its biggest jump in nearly 90 years, on news that a federal stimulus bill to rescue the economy from the coronavirus was imminent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was still down 31 percent from its most recent high at the closing bell. Meanwhile, economists say weekly jobless claims — new filings for unemployment insurance — could hit 2 million or 3 million. The Labor Department will release the latest figures on Thursday morning. Before the coronavirus hit, weekly jobless claims hovered around 215,000. Though no one knows the true fallout yet — because we’re still in the thick of it. “The impact of the crisis on the commercial real estate market has been dramatic so far, and we are only in the beginning,” says Alex Zikakis, president and founder of Capstone Advisors, a real estate investment, development and asset management company in Carlsbad, Calif. “Many small businesses, especially in retail, are facing extreme pressure as people social distance and only shop for absolute necessities. I …
MANCHESTER, PENN. — Advanced Industrial Services Inc. has acquired a 25,000-square-foot property in Manchester, located approximately 20 miles south of Harrisburg. Located at 45 Devco Drive, the property was constructed in 1988 and offers convenient access to Interstate 83 and State Route 30. Ted Turnbull and Jason Turnbull of Rock Commercial Real Estate represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The team also procured Advanced Industrial as the buyer. The sales price was undisclosed.