PHILADELPHIA — Charlie’s Pizza has signed a 2,000-square-foot retail lease at Morrell Plaza, a 103,000-square-foot shopping center that is located at the intersection of Frankford Avenue and State Route 13 in Philadelphia. A 63,000-square-foot ShopRite supermarket anchors the center. Other tenants include Northeast Cycle, Wingstop, Freedom Credit Union, Rite Aid, T-Mobile, Supercuts, Dunkin’ and Yamato Sushi & Hibachi. Sidney Singer of Levin Management Corp., which serves as the property’s exclusive leasing and managing agent, negotiated the lease on behalf of the landlord.
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale-leaseback of the U.S. headquarters of defense electronics firm Elbit Systems of America. The 215,729-square-foot manufacturing and office campus is located in Fort Worth. The property was built on 25 acres in 1980 and has been leased to Elbit Systems since 1993 on a triple-net basis. An undisclosed pension fund advisor purchased the campus from Elbit Systems as part of a portfolio sale that also included the defense contractor’s manufacturing plant in Roanoke, Va. Adam Abushagur of Marcus & Millichap handled the sale of the Texas facility.
FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS — Lee & Associates has secured a 198,854-square-foot industrial lease at 1901 Lakeside Parkway in the northern Fort Worth suburb of Flower Mound for asset management and logistics firm TelTech Communications. Completed in 2019, the rear-load property features 32-foot clear heights, 180-foot truck courts and 38 trailer parking spaces. Tom Walrich of Lee & Associates represented the tenant in the lease negotiations. John Fulton and Brett Owens of Transwestern represented the landlord, Denver-based Black Creek Group.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Extended Stay America has opened a 124-room hotel at 1311 Airport Commerce Drive near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The four-story property features suites with full-size refrigerators, recliners and workspaces. Amenities will include a fitness center, laundry facilities and complimentary Wi-Fi.
LA PORTE, TEXAS — Boyd Commercial has negotiated a 75,000-square-foot industrial lease for Cottondale Wood Products, an Alabama-based supplier of wooden pallets for the petrochemical industry, in the southeastern Houston suburb of La Porte. The property is situated within two miles of Port Houston’s Barbour’s Cut Terminal. William Carpenter, Greg Barra and David Boyd of Boyd Commercial represented the tenant, which plans to take occupancy later this summer, in the lease negotiations. Jeff Everist of CBRE represented the landlord, Hines.
HOUSTON — O’Reilly Auto Parts has signed a 36,823-square-foot retail lease at Mercado 6 Marketplace, a shopping center located at 7355 Highway 6 S. in Houston. Taki Dallis and Joaquin Orozco of RESOLUT Real Estate represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease negotiations. Ford Jones of Independence Commercial Real Estate represented the tenant.
EL MONTE, CALIF. — Goodman Group has completed Goodman Logistics Center El Monte – Los Angeles East, a 1.2 million-square-foot logistics facility in El Monte. Located at 4300 Shirley Ave., the new facility offers 227,850 square feet to 935,657 square feet of space that is designed to support modern warehouses for the e-commerce industry and beyond. The logistics facility’s design offers flexibility to accommodate warehousing requirements for a variety of tenant needs. The property is located less than one mile from Interstate 10, four miles from Interstate 605, 13 miles from downtown Los Angeles and 24 miles from the Ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach.
Kärcher Consolidates North American Headquarters at 380,000 SF Campus in Aurora, Colorado
by Amy Works
AURORA, COLO. — Kärcher, a provider of cleaning technology, is consolidating its manufacturing campuses in Englewood, Colo., and Camas, Wash., into a newly completed, 380,000-square-foot North American headquarters facility located at 6398 N. Kärcher Way in Aurora. Situated on a 23-acre site, the build-to-suit campus features 275,000 square feet of warehouse, R&D and manufacturing space along with 100,000 square feet of office space. The property is located within the Porteos development near Denver International Airport. Ware Malcomb provided architecture, interior design, civil engineering and land surveying services for the project. The building features an open three-story staircase, Kärcher’s corporate colors of bright yellow and gray, and storefront and curtain walls for the office area. Brinkmann Constructors served as general contractor and SunCap Property Group is the project’s developer. Winnenden, Germany is the global headquarters of Karcher.
NKF Arranges $165M in Financing for BioMed Life Sciences Building in Emeryville, California
by Amy Works
EMERYVILLE, CALIF. — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF), on behalf of property owner BioMed Realty, has arranged $165 million in financing for an asset located at 5300 Chiron Way in Emeryville. The Class A life sciences building, which totals 303,509 rentable square feet, is located within Emeryville Center of Innovation. Zymergen, a science and material innovation company, fully occupies the property. BioMed will use the loan to transform the asset into a specialized and innovative high-tech environment for the tenant’s new headquarters location. Ramsey Daya and Chris Moritz of NKF’s Debt & Structured Finance office in San Francisco secured the financing for the owner, which is a provider of real estate solutions to the life science and technology industries.
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Kennedy Wilson Fund VI has acquired a six-building R&D/office portfolio in South San Jose for $53.5 million. The name of the seller was not released. Totaling 257,000 square feet, the portfolio consists of five single-story R&D buildings and a two-story office building. The portfolio is currently 100 percent occupied by 15 tenants. The acquisition expands Kennedy Wilson’s presence in Silicon Valley and its growing portfolio of flex office assets across a global footprint. Kennedy Wilson has an 11 percent interest in Fund VI, which has a portfolio that includes 13 multifamily, office, retail and other commercial assets in markets in San Jose, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Denver and Seattle. The assets have an aggregate purchase price of $1.1 billion.