SAVANNAH, GA. — Premier Design + Build Group has broken ground on a 285,527-square-foot cold-storage facility for Frozen Assets Cold Storage in Savannah. The facility is expected to be complete in spring 2020 and will offer warehouse storage with 50-foot clear ceiling heights, a 19,518-square-foot blast freezer, two freezer rooms, boxing room, and an ammonia refrigeration system that will allow the freezers to maintain temperatures between 38 and minus-10 degrees. The building’s exterior will feature 39 truck doors, 54 trailer positions, 68 parking stalls and a drive-in door. The property is situated on 20 acres at 2375 Tremont Road, six miles south of the Port of Savannah. Samantha Skopek of Premier will oversee the design and construction. Harris Architects Inc. is providing architectural services, Swift Structural Design LLC is providing structural engineering services and Thomas & Hutton is providing civil engineering and landscape architecture services for the project. This is the first project for Premier in the state of Georgia.
Industrial
TAMPA, FLA. — RS Tampa Industrial LLC, an affiliate of Redstone Investments, has acquired the Roth portfolio, a 17-building industrial portfolio that spans 466,460 square feet in Tampa’s Airport/North and East Tampa submarkets. Roth Investment Partnership sold the buildings for a total of $28.6 million. Included in the sale is a building situated at 4410 Crest Ave. which is adjacent to Air Cargo Road and Tampa International Airport. Six of the buildings are situated within Sunstate Industrial Park, which, according to a person familiar with the property, is located near Tampa International Airport’s cargo entrance.
TULSA, OKLA. — National industrial investment firm Reich Bros. has acquired a 228,000-square-foot heavy manufacturing facility in Tulsa. The property, which is situated on 67 acres near Interstates 44 and 244, formerly served as the main manufacturing and warehousing location in the market for SPX Heat. The facility is also located near Tulsa International Airport and Amazon’s 600,000-square-foot distribution center that is currently under construction. The site comprises a 160,000-square-foot warehouse, a 40,000-square-foot fabrication building and a 28,000-square-foot office building. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
WILLMAR, MINN. — Kraus-Anderson has begun construction of a 52,000-square-foot dealership for Ziegler CAT’s agriculture and construction equipment in Willmar. The company is expanding its equipment sales, rental and repair services in the central Minnesota area. Ziegler CAT is one of Caterpillar’s largest dealers in North America. Ziegler sells and services CAT construction, paving, forestry, mining equipment, trucks, generators and industrial engines. The new project will replace the company’s current 5,360-square-foot facility in Willmar. The two-story development will feature a retail showroom, a 25,000-square-foot shop, warehouse and offices, and a 7,800-square-foot cold storage building. Designed by CNH Architects, the property also includes two bridge cranes, lube systems and a wash bay. Completion is slated for winter 2020.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE AND FRANKLIN PARK, ILL. — Stream Realty Partners has been retained to manage two new Class A industrial properties in suburban Chicago from Principal Real Estate Investors on behalf of an institutional client. The first is a 133,000-square-foot building in Elk Grove Village. Completed in December, the facility is situated on 6.5 acres. Seko Worldwide and Gran Quartz occupy the property, which features 20 exterior docks and a clear height of 32 feet. The second is a 400,370-square-foot building in Franklin Park. Completed in May, the facility is currently available for lease. Situated on 20 acres, it offers 79 exterior docks and a clear height of 36 feet.
NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV. — Dermody Properties has broken ground on LogistiCenter at Speedway, a distribution facility located at 6565 Nascar St. in North Las Vegas. Situated on 14 acres, the 251,800-square-foot building will feature 32-foot clear heights, 52 dock doors, eight grade-level doors and 182 car parking spaces. The building is currently available for pre-leasing and is divisible to 24,300 square feet. Garrett Toft and Sean Zaher of CBRE Las Vegas is representing the property. United Construction Co. is serving as general contractor.
Quantum Commercial Group Negotiates $1.5M Sale of Industrial Building in Colorado Springs
by Amy Works
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Quantum Commercial Group has arranged the sale of an industrial property, located at 2028 Aerotech Drive in Colorado Springs. Aerotech LLC sold the building to KGB LLC for $1.5 million. The property features 15,249 square feet of industrial space. Mary Francis Cowan of Quantum Commercial Group represented the seller, while Mike Helwege and Parker Curry of Core Commercial represented the buyer in the deal.
MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP, PA. — An affiliate of Radnor-based Endurance Real Estate Group and Philadelphia-based Brasler Properties has acquired Berks61, an 18.4-acre industrial land site in Pennsylvania located just outside of Reading. Shortly after acquiring the property, the new ownership secured a build-to-suit agreement with CarbonLITE Holdings LLC, a producer of plastic resins, for the construction of a 270,000-square-foot warehouse and manufacturing facility. The tilt-wall, rail-served building will feature 36-foot clear heights, an ESFR sprinkler system and three drive-in doors. Mark Chubb of Colliers International represented CarbonLITE in the deal. John Van Buskirk, Joel Kreider and Ed Skonecki of Lee & Associates represented the landlord. The partnership also has another project, this one speculative, under development in Berks County that will deliver two buildings totaling approximately 328,000 square feet.
CLOSTER, N.J. — JLL’s Capital Markets team has closed an $11 million loan for the refinancing of Reuten Corporate Park, a 156,782-square-foot industrial and office development in Closter, located across the Hudson River from Yonkers. The property, which spans five buildings with 95,528 square feet of industrial space and 61,254 square feet of office space, was 99 percent leased at the time of sale. Tenants include logistics firm Nippon Express and Rayence, a distributor of flat panel detectors for X-ray equipment. Aaron Niedermayer, Michael Diaz, Chris Byrns and Brendan Collins of JLL placed the loan with M&T Bank on behalf of the borrower, Reuten Associates, which originally developed the property in the mid-1980s.
WHITINSVILLE, MASS. — The Stubblebine Co., a CORFAC member and brokerage firm based in the Boston area, has negotiated a 78,000-square-foot industrial lease at 355 Main St. in Whitinsville, located south of Worcester. The lease represents an expansion of the current footprint of the tenant, Core-Mark, a Fortune 400 distributor and marketer of consumer goods. David Stubblebine and James Stubblebine of The Stubblebine Co. represented the landlord, WRT Management, in the lease negotiations. The 355,000-square-foot building is situated on 26 acres and features an ESFR sprinkler system and T-5 lighting.