OMAHA, NEB. — Investors Realty Inc. has negotiated the sale of the 680 Maple Mini Storage facility in Omaha for $8.2 million. The six-building facility is located at 3206 N. 102nd St. Of the 652 total units, 108 are temperature-controlled. John Heinne and RJ Neary of Investors Realty represented the seller. Trenton Magid and Grant Palmer of NAI NP Dodge represented the buyer.
PLANO, TEXAS — Metro Dallas-based brokerage firm ESRP has arranged the sale-leaseback of a 1 million-square-foot office and data center campus in Plano, a northeastern suburb of Dallas. The seller/tenant is NTT Data, a Japanese data systems integration company, and the buyer was an undisclosed, San Francisco-based private equity firm. The property includes two data centers and leasable office space and has the capacity for future data center development. Steve Jarvie, Darren Woodson, Karra Guess and Damian Rivera of ESRP represented the seller in he transaction. Paul Moser and Rob Kennedy of Stream Data Centers represented the buyer.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tampa, Fla.-based self-storage brokerage firm SkyView Advisors has brokered the sale of a 513-unit Extra Space Storage facility in Oklahoma City. The property features 110 climate-controlled units and 403 non-climate-controlled units across 78,295 square feet. Ryan Clark of SkyView represented the seller in the transaction. The buyer and other terms of sale were not disclosed.
SHARON, MASS. — Precision components manufacturer Senior Metal Bellows and construction management firm Dacon have broken ground on a two-story, 47,000-square-foot flex facility in Sharon. The property is an addition to an existing 65,000-square-foot facility at 1075 Boston Providence Highway in Sharon. The project consists of 25,700 square feet of manufacturing space on the first floor with 21,300 square feet of office space on the second floor. The expansion is Senior Metal Bellows’ sixth in the last 50 years due to growth in innovative capabilities, implementation of next-generation machinery and streamlining of operations. Norwood Engineering is the civil engineering firm of record. William Jackson of William Jackson Associates Inc. is serving as project manager. The project is slated for occupancy this summer.
PERRIS, CALIF. — Rockefeller Group has completed the sale of an industrial distribution building located within Optimus Logistics Center in Perris. KKR, through its Real Estate Partners Americas II Fund, acquired the newly constructed asset for $43.5 million. The 406,650-square-foot building is the second building to be completed and sold at Optimus Logistics Center, a 1.45 million-square-foot industrial complex. Rockefeller Group, in a joint venture with MBK Real Estate, completed the construction of Optimus Logistics Center in September 2018. Mike McCrary, Peter McWilliams, Sharon Wortmann and Scott Coyle of JLL represented both Rockefeller Group and KKR in the transaction.
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. — A joint venture between Shaw Development and Penwood Real Estate Investment Management has completed the disposition of a single-tenant industrial asset located at 5080 Hallmark Parkway in the San Bernardino submarket of the Inland Empire. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Situated on 7.6 acres, the 197,100-square-foot property is triple-net leased on a long-term basis to Tree Island Steel, a wire products producer. The facility features 25-foot to 30-foot clear heights, 16 dock-high loading doors, two grade-level doors, one door with ramp-to-grade level and low office finish. Andrew Briner and Michael Roberts of HFF, along with Frank Geraci and Juan Gutierrez of Voit Real Estate Services, represented the seller in the deal.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has negotiated the sale of a 59,206-square-foot manufacturing facility located at 801 Estes Ave. in Elk Grove Village. The sales price was not disclosed. Located on three acres, the property features three interior docks, three drive-in doors, 47 car parking spaces and a clear height of 18 feet. Adam Marshall, Tatsuru Kono and Mark Deady of NKF represented the seller, Tigerflex Corp. Cory Ramey and Shamus Coneely of John Greene Industrial represented the buyer, Diesel Radiator Co.
The St. Louis industrial market is in the middle of a significant construction boom. Total square footage under construction is at a record-high 6.3 million square feet, with 2.8 million square feet of activity completed in 2018. The last two years have experienced historically high levels of overall net absorption with 4 million square feet in 2017 and 5.6 million square feet in 2016. These absorption levels are significantly higher than pre-recession market numbers. The expected 3 million square feet of positive absorption in 2018 is 1 million square feet higher than what had ever been recorded prior to 2014. A significant portion of this absorption is due to several large transactions in newly constructed, and often tax-abated, parks. Whether or not this level of construction and sizable deals is sustainable remains to be determined, but many trends within the economy indicate that this can continue. The vacancy rate for the St. Louis industrial market dropped to 6.21 percent in the third quarter of 2018, the lowest rate since 2006. This drop in available space bumped average direct asking rates up to $4.58 per square foot, the highest level since before the recession. Earth City and North …
HACKENSACK, N.J. — NAI James Hanson has negotiated the sale of a 7,800-square-foot industrial/flex building in Hackensack. The sales price was undisclosed. Located at 238 High St., the property includes 16-foot ceilings and three overhead doors. Anthony Cassano of NAI James Hanson represented the seller, High Street Hackensack LLC, in the transaction. The buyer was Hackensack-based Vanore Electric, which was drawn to the property’s sizable footprint and ample truck parking in a highly accessible area, according to NAI Hanson.
SOUTHAVEN, MISS. — IDI Logistics has begun construction on Building G within Stateline Business Park, a 4 million-square-foot industrial park located in Southaven, less than a mile from the Mississippi-Tennessee border and about 13 miles south of Memphis. Building G will be a 352,800-square-foot, single-load facility that will feature 36-foot clear heights, 82 dock doors, two drive-in doors, a 185-foot truck court and 65 trailer parking spaces. The facility is expected to be delivered in June. Atlanta-based IDI Logistics began construction on Stateline Business Park in 2005.
