ACWORTH, GA. — Dermody Properties will break ground in July on LogistiCenter at New McEver, a 176,463-square-foot industrial building in Acworth. Dermody recently acquired the 12.3-acre plot on New McEver Road, two miles southeast of downtown Acworth and 30 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. The Cobb County property will offer build-to-suit office space and feature 34 dock-high doors, two drive-in doors, 32-foot clear heights, 168 car parking spaces, a 130- to 185-foot truck court, six-inch reinforced concrete floor, tilt-up concrete panel construction and an ESFR fire protection system. Austin Brannen and Matt Bentley of NAI Brannen Goddard represented Dermody Properties in the acquisition of land and will be the leasing brokers for the project. Terms of the land sale were not disclosed.
Industrial
PLANO, TEXAS — Stream Realty Partners has arranged the sale of a 114,150-square-foot industrial building located at 2801 Summit Ave. in Plano. OPEX Corp., doing business as Generation Y LLC, purchased the property for an undisclosed price and is currently the property’s sole tenant. According to LoopNet Inc., the facility was built in 1990 and features office space and 24-foot clear heights. Jason Moser and Ridley Culp of Stream Realty represented the buyer in the transaction. Kacy Jones and John Hendricks of CBRE represented the seller, AdvoCare. The weight loss and sports supplement producer recently built another facility in Plano where it has set up operations.
Cushman & Wakefield Arranges 152,390 SF Industrial Lease in Royal Palm Beach, Florida
by Alex Tostado
ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLA. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a 152,390-square-foot industrial lease renewal for Millwork Sales in Royal Palm Beach. The property spans 24 acres and is located at 700 103rd Ave., 13 miles west of downtown West Palm Beach. The building features 40-foot-by-48-foot column spacing, a 60-foot-by-48-foot loading bay, energy-efficient lighting and hurricane impact-resistant windows. Christopher Thomson, Rick Etner Jr., Chris Metzger and Matthew McAllister of Cushman & Wakefield represented the tenant in the transaction. Millwork Sales is a producer of doors, millwork and other interior housing products. The landlord was not disclosed.
SANDY, UTAH — The LeClaire Group of Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Hidden Creek Storage, a self-storage facility in Sandy. Jordan Farrer and Adam Schlosser of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a private self-storage investor and developer, and procured the undisclosed buyer in the deal. The acquisition price was not released. The 60-unit Hidden Creek Storage features 14,400 net rentable square feet. The self-storage property features garden-style doors and all units are drive-up accessible. The facility is located within The Villas at Hidden Creek Homeowners Association.
Buoyed by Industrial Sector, Market Confidence Improves Slightly Overall Among SIOR Survey Participants
by John Nelson
The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) has released its second edition of the monthly SIOR Snapshot Sentiment Survey, and overall the association’s industrial specialists felt better about their market’s outlook than their counterparts in the office sector. Patrick Sentner, president-elect of SIOR and executive vice president of CBRE’s Pittsburgh office, says that the growth of e-commerce and the grocery sector during the pandemic are helping boost confidence among industrial brokers. “Certain industrial market segments have seen business increase steadily during the pandemic,” says Sentner. “As such, there has been some solid movement in the industrial sector during the past three months.” The newly created survey provides a snapshot of the industry during a time when the COVID-19 outbreak has significantly impacted the industrial and office sectors. The monthly survey posed three questions to its members, of which around 500 answered for the May edition. The first question asked the progress of transactions currently taking place. The second question asked respondents to rank their level of confidence six months from now for their local markets. The final question let participants write open-ended responses relating to trends and market changes affecting the industrial and office real estate sectors. Overall market …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Albany Road Real Estate Partners has sold an industrial portfolio comprising four properties in metro Charlotte for $75.5 million. The first property, Overlook 77, totals three buildings at 5521 Lakeview Road in Charlotte. The portfolio includes two parks on the north side: International Corporate Center, a five-building property located at 4601 Corporate Drive in Concord, and the three-building Lakefield Corporate Center located at 307 Oates Road in Mooresville. The final property is the two-building SouthCross Corporate Center in Rock Hill, S.C. The property is situated at 3042 SouthCross Blvd., 21 miles southwest of downtown Charlotte. Patrick Gildea, Matt Smith, Anne Johnson, Bryan Crutcher, and Grayson Hawkins of CBRE represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer, CIP Real Estate, retained Anne Johnson and Bryan Crutcher of CBRE to handle leasing efforts for the portfolio.
CORONA, CALIF. — Denver-based EverWest Real Estate Investors has completed the $37 million sale-leaseback acquisition of Magnolia Point, a Class A industrial facility in Corona. Located at 1560 E. Sixth St., the 210,345-square-foot building features 32-foot clear heights, 21 dock-high doors, two ground-level doors, a 150-foot truck court and more than 27,300 square feet of office space. Amrapur Overseas occupies the entire warehouse/distribution building, which was constructed in 2014. Richard Schwartz, Joey Reaume and Tommy Gilmore of Colliers International represented the buyer, while Jim deRegt of Lee & Associates represented the seller in the transaction.
MOUNT OLIVE, N.J. — Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 102,839-square-foot industrial sublease for game publisher and manufacturer Breaking Games LLC in Mount Olive, located 50 miles west of New York City. The space is located within 200 International Drive, an approximately 217,500-square-foot industrial property that was constructed in 1984. The building features 24-foot clear heights, nine loading docks and approximately 6,000 square feet of office space. The property also offers convenient access to Interstate 80 and State Route 46. Stephen Sander of Cushman & Wakefield represented the sublandlord, Bosal USA, in the negotiations
DENVER — NAI Shames Makovsky has arranged the sale of an industrial asset located at 11100 E. 51st Ave. in Denver. Colorado Farms sold the property to GS 51st LLC for $7.3 million. The building consists of 60,758 square feet of industrial space. Jake Malman and Sandy Feld of NAI Shames Makovsky represented the seller in the deal.
HALTOM CITY, TEXAS — MAG Capital Partners LLC has acquired a 139,150-square-foot industrial portfolio in the Fort Worth suburb of Haltom City from San Francisco-based private equity firm P4G Capital. The eight-building portfolio, which was acquired in a sale-leaseback transaction, is leased to local aerospace firm Fore Aero. P4G Capital acquired Fore Aero and the real estate in 2017. Andy Rogers of Kelly Hart & Hallman and Mary Garnett of law firm Barnes & Thornburg represented MAG Capital Partners in the transaction. Bryan Huber of New York-based SAB Capital represented the seller. MAG Capital Partners is a Fort Worth-based development and investment firm formed in 2015 by Dax T.S. Mitchell and Andrew Gi.