Industrial

LOCKPORT, ILL. — Mesa West Capital has provided a $32.1 million loan for the acquisition of the I-355 Industrial Center in Lockport, 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Built in 2017, the 611,576-square-foot industrial property is situated on 33 acres and comprises two buildings. It features a clear height of 32 feet, 30 dock doors and a shared 185-foot truck court. The property is currently leased to one tenant, Berlin Packaging LLC, which occupies approximately 17 percent of the available space. Steve Roth of CBRE arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between High Street Realty Co. and Angelo Gordon. A portion of the five-year, floating-rate loan will be used to pay for tenant improvements and lease-up costs.

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PLAINFIELD, IND. — Aersopace firm Safran Nacelles Services Americas LLC has signed a 56,592-square-foot industrial lease at the Gateway V distribution center in Plainfield near the Indianapolis International Airport. HSA Commercial Real Estate owns the property, which is located at 845 Airtech Parkway. The firm, based in Paris, France, entered into a 10-year lease and plans to take occupancy in December after relocating from a smaller facility within the market. Terry Busch and Jared Scaringe of CBRE represented ownership in the lease transaction. Zak Mirkowski and Taylor Wood of Savills represented the tenant. Developed on a speculative basis, the 262,758-square-foot Gateway V features a clear height of 32 feet, 30 truck docks, four drive-in doors, 185 car parking stalls and 70 trailer positions. The facility is now 50 percent leased. LifeNet Health, a provider of transplant solutions, leased 68,175 square feet earlier this year.

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DENVER — Bradbury Properties and Confluent Development have broken ground on three additional buildings at HighField Business Park, an industrial park located at the intersection of E-470 and Peoria Street southeast of Centennial Airport in metro Denver. Upon completion, the three projects will bring the 100-acre near to full build-out, spanning approximately 10 years and totaling 1.25 million square feet of industrial space. Only 12 acres on the park’s north end will remain undeveloped. The new buildings include a 202,000-square-foot, single-story facility, slated for completion in second-quarter 2020; and 160,000-square-foot and 130,000-square-foot speculative buildings, slated for completion in first-quarter 2020. Brinkman Construction and Ware Malcomb are serving as general contractor and architect, respectively, for the FedEx property. Murray & Stafford and Intergroup Architects comprise the project team for the spec buildings. The spec facilities will feature front-park, rear-load design with shared truck courts. HighField Business Park currently features 750,000 square feet of fully leased industrial space. Upon completion of this phase of development, the park will consist of six buildings totaling 800,000 square feet of space. Current tenants at the park include Charter Communications, Gateway Classic Cars, EdgeConneX, Linn Star Transfer and Liteye Systems. Jim Bolt of CBRE leads the …

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PHILADELPHIA — CBRE has brokered the sale of a 283,500-square-foot industrial facility in Philadelphia. The buyer, a partnership between Wharton Industrial Partners and Walton Street Capital, plans to invest $10 million in an extensive repositioning of the site, which will be rebranded SoPhi Logistics Center. Improvements will include installation of a new roof and lights, as well as leveling the interior floors, expanding and upgrading the loading docks and repaving and repainting the entire site. Construction is expected to be complete in early 2020. CBRE’s Patrick Green and Michael Mullen represented the seller, an individual investor based in Switzerland who purchased the property in 2006. The sales price was undisclosed.

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The St. Louis industrial market continues to rally after posting 22 straight quarters of positive absorption. Record leasing activity and historically low vacancy have put the region on pace to deliver another 6.5 million square feet of Class A industrial space in 2019. This is in a market that averages deliveries of approximately 2.5 million square feet annually. Current drivers engendering this industrial activity include the following. Discipline Developers in St. Louis have long been known for their disciplined approach to building. Vacancy in a stable market hovers near 7 percent for the region. The vacancy rate for industrial space leading into the third quarter was 5 percent, up slightly from the previous quarter, according to CoStar. Continued speculative development, particularly in the Metro East, added to the increase. This, coupled with a large vacancy left in Lakeview Commerce Center by World Wide Technologies as it shuffles into a new 2 million-square-foot facility in Gateway Commerce Center East, were the most evident culprits. Expect vacancy to uptick slightly again in the third quarter as speculative deliveries by NorthPoint Development at Gateway Tradeport along with Exeter in Gateway Commerce Center come online. E-commerce No discussion surrounding the industrial market would be …

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DALLAS — Aligned Energy, a data center developer and operator, will build a 360,000-square-foot colocation facility in Dallas. The project represents an expansion of the company’s 19-acre DFW-01 campus and will increase the development’s critical power capacity by eight megawatts. Construction is underway and is expected to be complete by late November.

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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA. — Novaya Foxfield Industrial (NFI) has purchased 20 acres in Elizabethtown, located about 75 miles north of Baltimore. NFI is currently developing two industrial warehouses totaling 200,000 square feet on the site. The buildings will feature concrete panel construction and 32-foot clear heights. The property will be located within the 3.5 million-square-foot Conewago Industrial Park, which houses several large warehouse and industrial tenants. NFI expects to complete construction by the end of 2019.

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LONG ISLAND, N.Y. — Woodmont Industrial Partners has acquired 100 Precision Drive, a 130,565-square-foot industrial property on Long Island. Built in 2002, the single-story property features 25-foot clear heights and 325 parking spaces and is located less than a half mile from I-495. Woodmont Industrial will upgrade the building with a new sprinkler system, new roof, LED lighting and dock doors.

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NORTHVALE, N.J. — CBRE has brokered the $17.9 million sale of an industrial property in Northvale, a northern suburb of New York City. Built in 1970, the 207,000-square-foot property features 18-foot ceiling heights, 20 loading docks and 17,178 square feet of office space. Elli Klapper and Charles Berger of CBRE represented the buyer, Treetop Development, in the transaction. Kevin Dudley, Geoffrey Schubert and Justin Passaretti, also with CBRE, represented the seller, Vale 521 LLC.

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SPOKANE VALLEY, WASH. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Sprague & Sullivan Storage, a self-storage facility located in Spokane Valley. Dean and Elizabeth Grafos sold the asset for an undisclosed price. The name of the buyer was not released. Thomas Parsons and Adam Schlosser of The LaClaire Group of Marcus & Millichap represented the sellers in the transaction. The 126,710-square-foot facility offers drive-up self-storage units, outside uncovered boat/RV parking, Budget truck rentals and portable metal containers for off-site rental.

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