NEW YORK CITY — Burlington will open a 77,970-square-foot store at 620 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan’s Chelsea area. The discount clothing retailer is relocating and expanding from a 40,000-square-foot space at 695 Avenue of the Americas via a 12-year lease. Cliff Simon of CNS Real Estate represented Burlington in the lease negotiations. Richard Skulnik, Lindsay Zegans, Ben Sabin and Mary Schwagerl of RIPCO Real Estate, along with internal agent Daniel Birney, represented the landlord, RXR.
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Annapolis-based transportation real estate investment and management firm Realterm has purchased a national portfolio of 13 industrial outdoor storage (IOS) properties spanning 131 acres for $277 million. Brookfield Asset Management sold the portfolio, which comprises 13 single-tenant truck terminals and maintenance facilities totaling 631,604 square feet. The addresses were not disclosed, but the properties are concentrated in gateway markets such as Dallas-Fort Worth, Northern New Jersey, Orlando, Seattle, Chicago and both California’s Inland Empire and Bay Area. The portfolio had an occupancy rate of 97 percent at the time of sale. “The portfolio represents a rare opportunity to acquire, at scale, a collection of transportation-advantaged IOS truck terminal assets in key markets,” said Ben Andreycak, vice president of investments at Realterm. “Realterm recognizes the mission-critical nature of the assets in the portfolio for logistics use.” Nick Murphy and Brian Budnick of New York City-based advisory firm Eastdil Secured arranged the portfolio sale on behalf of Brookfield, which acquired the assets between 2017 and 2022. The properties are leased to 10 different tenants, primarily in the logistics space. “Investor demand for IOS properties has surged due to the increasing need for storage and logistics solutions that support supply …
The U.S. industrial real estate market continues to sustain, with national vacancy rates steadily creeping toward 7 percent (6.8 percent at the time of this writing). Over the past three years, the industrial real estate market continued to set records and became known as the darling asset class within the commercial real estate community. However, the market is showing signs of reversion to historical velocity and vacancy rates. The industrial vacancy rate is steadily climbing in the Washington, D.C., metro area as demand softens for third-party logistics in second-quarter 2024. Vacancies are up to 6.5 percent after reaching an all-time low of 3.8 percent at the end of 2022. The market remains tight by historical measures. However, normalized leasing velocity, a few large tenant moveouts and reduced demand is expected to provide upward pressure on the vacancy rate in 2025. Subleasing activity trended upward in the past six to 12 months to over 1.3 million square feet. A few examples of large sublets include 393,000 square feet put on the market at Capital Gateway in Brandywine; Builders First Source moved out of 135,000 square feet at Plaza 500 in Alexandria; and in the second quarter, Western Express vacated 102,000 square …
NEW YORK CITY — Tishman Speyer has received a $2.9 billion refinancing for The Spiral, a 66-story office tower in Midtown Manhattan. JPMorgan Chase provided the five-year, fixed-rate CMBS loan with Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo serving as co-lenders. Tishman Speyer began developing the 2.8 million-square-foot tower, which was designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, in June 2018. The Spiral opened its doors in 2023 and is currently 94 percent leased, with the 23rd and 24th floors devoted to the firm’s co-working platform dubbed Studio. The building is anchored by biopharmaceutical company Pfizer and serves as the U.S. headquarters of HSBC, a British bank and financial services group. NewYork-Presbyterian’s Och Spine outpatient center and HSBC’s flagship wealth center occupy the base of the tower. Additional tenants include TPG Global, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, AllianceBernstein, Turner Construction and Marshall Wace. The Spiral offers shared amenities including ZO Clubhouse, an amenity center and lounge on the top floor, a conference center and outdoor terraces with a green pathway that wraps around the façade of the building. The clubhouse features panoramic views of New York City, food and beverage services and multiple spaces for meetings, conferences and events. The Spiral also offers street-level …
DALLAS — A partnership between two Dallas-based firms, Lincoln Property Co. and Tradition Holdings, as well as infrastructure provider Gigabit Fiber, will develop an 800,000-square-foot data center campus in South Dallas. The site spans 131 acres in the Red Oak submarket. The campus will comprise four facilities that will have a total power capacity of up to 540 megawatts at full build-out and that will support users in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, among others. Construction will be carried out in phases, starting with the development of a 7,500-square-foot, two-megawatt facility in the first quarter. A completion date for the entire development was not disclosed.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Affinius Capital has provided a $77.4 million construction loan for West Worth Commerce Center, a 992,000-square-foot industrial project in Fort Worth. The site is located off I-820 between interstates 30 and 20, and the development will consist of four buildings that will feature 32- to-36-foot clear heights, 274 dock-high doors, 12 drive-in doors and parking for 235 trailers and 912 cars. The borrower is a joint venture between Forefront Commercial Real Estate and a fund backed by Ares Management Real Estate. A tentative completion date for West Worth Commerce Center was not disclosed.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Trademark Property Co. has topped out The Vickery, a 321-unit multifamily project in downtown Fort Worth. Designed by GFF and developed in partnership with SCOA Real Estate Partners, The Vickery will consist of 307 apartments, 14 townhomes and a 5,300-square-foot restaurant with a second-story lounge, as well as an amenitized green space. Residential amenities will include a pool, rooftop lounge and coworking space. Construction began in February 2024 and is expected to be complete this spring.
SAN ANTONIO — Locally based firm CBG Real Estate will undertake a hotel redevelopment project in northeast San Antonio. CBG will redevelop an existing hotel located at the intersection of Perrin Beitel Road and Loop 410 near San Antonio International Airport into a 165-room, dual-branded property. The new hotel will be operated under the La Quinta and Hawthorn Extended Stay by Wyndham brands and will offer amenities such as a fitness center, outdoor grilling and picnic areas and meeting/event space. The project is expected to be complete before the end of the year.
WESLACO, TEXAS — Arlington-based investment firm Skywalker Property Partners has purchased two industrial properties totaling 176,700 square feet in the Rio Grande Valley city of Weslaco. The acquisitions include a 108,000-square-foot warehouse at 715 W. Pike Blvd. that was fully leased at the time of sale to Jefferson Electric and can support future expansion and a two-building facility at 308-320 S. Utah Ave. that is home to seven different tenants. Skywalker plans to invest about $750,000 in capital improvements to the properties. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
PITTSBURGH — Locally based developer Piatt Cos. has unveiled plans for The Esplanade, a $600 million, 1.7 million-square-foot mixed-use project in Pittsburgh. The site, which formerly supported industrial uses, spans 15 acres along the Ohio River on the city’s north side. Residential plans for The Esplanade currently call for more than 400 apartments, 20 percent of which will be reserved as affordable housing, as well as 105 condominium units. In addition, the development will feature roughly 8 acres of public green space, a 225-room hotel with meeting and event space and retail and entertainment uses such as an aquarium, grocery store, museum, splash park, walking trails, public art installations and a Ferris wheel. According to multiple local news sources, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Piatt Cos. received approval in November from the City Planning Commission for the project, which is expected to generate $75.3 million in annual economic impact for the region, as well as to support the creation of more than 7,000 jobs.