BUENA PARK, CALIF. — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the sale of two industrial buildings at 6250 and 6270 Caballero Blvd. in Buena Park. AEW sold the assets to Elion for an undisclosed price. Totaling 274,170 square feet, the two buildings offer 24-foot clear heights, 32 dock-high doors, three ground-level doors and 13 rail doors. The properties are situated on 12 acres and offer ample parking and convenient freeway access. Jeff Chiate, Rick Ellison, Matt Leupold, Aubrie Monahan and Jeff Cole of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller and procured the buyer in the transaction. Brian Share, Rob Rubano, Max Schafer, Brennan Vance, Niki Kretschmann and Jonathan Grotzinger of Cushman & Wakefield arranged financing on behalf of the new ownership.
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TEMPE, ARIZ. — Indiana-based Thompson Thrift has broken ground on South Tempe Square, a 27,000-square-foot neighborhood shopping center located in Tempe, roughly 10 miles east of Phoenix. Nearly 75 percent of the property is preleased or under lease negotiations. Tenants who have already signed leases include BURN Total Body Conditioning, Pacific Dental, Look Lab, Luna Grill Restaurant, The Slice House by Tony Gemignani and GoodVets. A 4,500-square-foot restaurant pad and two inline retail spaces are still available for lease. A construction timeline was not disclosed.
SAN DIEGO — Alterra IOS has purchased a 5.1.-acre industrial outdoor storage (IOS) site with 30,000 square feet of accompanying warehouse space in the Otay Mesa neighborhood of San Diego. Located at 2660 Cactus Road, the property includes designated office space and open canopies. Additionally, the property is fully leased to a national tenant in the building materials sector. Located adjacent to the United States-Mexico border, the asset offers convenient access to the region’s key domestic and international ports, highways and airports, with direct connectivity to I-5, I-8, I-805, Route 905 and Route 11. Mickey Morera of Kidder Mathews facilitated the acquisition for Alterra.
NORTH CHICAGO, ILL. — AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) has unveiled a $195 million investment to expand its North Chicago manufacturing plant to include domestic active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production. The expansion is part of AbbVie’s previously announced commitment to invest more than $10 billion of capital in the U.S. to support innovation and expand critical manufacturing capabilities and capacity. API manufacturing involves producing the active components responsible for the therapeutic effects of medications. The new North Chicago API facility will expand AbbVie’s chemical synthesis capabilities in the U.S., supporting domestic production of current and next-generation neuroscience, immunology and oncology medicines. Construction of the new facility is slated to begin this fall, with the site projected to be fully operational in 2027. The project will expand AbbVie’s existing U.S. manufacturing footprint, which supports more than 6,000 American jobs across 11 manufacturing sites and thousands of additional jobs at suppliers around the U.S. AbbVie is headquartered in North Chicago and employs more than 11,000 people in the state that work to develop and manufacture medicines for patients worldwide.
LAPEER, MICH. — Bernard Financial Group (BFG) has arranged a $16.9 million loan for the refinancing of a 152-unit multifamily property in Lapeer, about 60 miles north of Detroit. Dan Duggan of BFG arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, Selective Real Estate LLC. Fannie Mae provided the loan.
PLAINFIELD, ILL. — Quantum Real Estate Advisors Inc. has brokered the $9 million sale of a 55,073-square-foot retail center in Plainfield within metro Chicago. Located at 12337 S. Route 59, the property was 97 percent leased at the time of sale to tenants such as Enterprise, One Main Financials, Chop’d and Khaos Brewcade and Kitchen. Brett Berlin of Quantum brokered the transaction. A private investor based in Illinois purchased the asset from a local family development company based in Chicago’s western suburbs.
ADA, MICH. — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the sale of Ada Attic Self-Storage, a 342-unit self-storage facility in Ada near Grand Rapids. The sale closed at a 6.62 percent cap rate. Built in 2002, the 52,150-square-foot property comprises climate-controlled and conventional units and was 96 percent occupied at the time of sale. Recent upgrades include new shingles, LED lighting and a modern surveillance system. Eddie Greenhalgh of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a family trust/limited liability company, and procured the buyer, Prestige Storage, in association with Steve Chaben, the brokerage firm’s broker of record in Michigan. The transaction marks the first time that the asset has changed hands.
ADDISON, ILL. — Brennan Investment Group has acquired a 97,568-square-foot industrial building in the Chicago suburb of Addison. Located near the I-355 expressway in the Northern DuPage submarket, the property features convenient access to the O’Hare International Airport as well as the Chicago central business district. The transaction marks the fifth acquisition within Brennan’s inaugural Opportunity Fund, which primarily focuses on the user-owned market.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — GE Appliances, a Haier company, has unveiled plans to invest more than $3 billion in its U.S. operations over the next five years. The company plans to expand its air conditioning and water heating portfolio, increase production output across all product lines and further modernize its 11 U.S. manufacturing plants with new automation and capital equipment. The first phase of investments will begin at GE Appliances plants in Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina. Upon completion of the plan, Louisville-based GE Appliances will have invested $6.5 billion across its U.S. manufacturing plants and nationwide distribution network since 2016, which is the year that the company was sold by General Electric (NYSE: GE) to Haier. The new $3 billion announcement marks the second-largest investment in the company’s history. The GE Appliances plant in Camden, S.C., currently produces gas water heaters. With the new investment, electric and hybrid water heater manufacturing will be added, doubling the plant’s output and employment once the project is complete. The first phase will be implemented by early 2026. In December, GE Appliances will add two new models of air conditioners to its air and water product portfolio at its Selmer, Tenn., plant. …
— By Bryan Cunningham of JLL — The retail sector continues to be a bright spot for commercial real estate in San Diego County. Despite financial headwinds that include interest rates, construction costs and increases in operating costs like labor and insurance, the resiliency of the consumer has allowed retailers and restaurants to continue to generate substantial sales volumes. Both national and regional retail and restaurant tenants continue to expand, although more cautiously than in years past. Retail vacancy rates in San Diego continue to hover around 5 percent, with the more desirable coastal communities closer to 3 percent. The lack of new development due to geographical constraints, as well as interest rates and construction costs, is driving expanding tenants to look purely at second-generation retail centers. While the retail tenant pool is somewhat shallow due to bankruptcies by Bed Bath & Beyond, 99 Cents Only, Party City, JoAnn Stores and the like, the lack of new product is keeping well-positioned shopping centers in high demand. Most grocery- and big box-anchored shopping centers are enjoying rents at record levels with very little vacancy. Retail centers continue to be at the forefront of interest from investors as well. While interest rates …