KING OF PRUSSIA, PA. — Hotel owner-operator MCR has acquired the 149-room Hampton Inn by Hilton Philadelphia/ King of Prussia, located on the northern outskirts of Philadelphia. The hotel is located at 530 West Dekalb Pike, less than one mile from the King of Prussia Mall. Amenities include a 24-hour fitness center, business center and 600 square feet of meeting and event space. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.
REVERE, MASS. — JLL has brokered the $24.1 million sale of Wonderland Marketplace, a 139,507-square-foot shopping center in Revere, a northeastern suburb of Boston. The shopping center is anchored by Marshalls, Big Lots and Planet Fitness and is adjacent to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Wonderland Station. Nat Heald and Chris Angelone of JLL represented the seller, a partnership between Winstanley Enterprises and Surrey Equities, in the transaction. Urban Edge Properties purchased the asset.
SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. — Goodwill Industries has signed a 125,500-square-foot industrial lease in South Hackensack, located in northern New Jersey. The nonprofit organization will occupy the entirety of a newly constructed warehouse at 400 Huyler St. that features 40-foot ceiling heights and 12,000 square feet of office space. Chuck Fern, Thomas D. Tucci, Jason Barton, Stephen Shoemaker, Thomas E. Tucci and Elizabeth Rouse of Cushman & Wakefield represented Goodwill in its site selection and lease negotiations. The team also represented the landlord, Forsgate Industrial Partners.
NEW ORLEANS — Developers Carpenter & Co. Inc. and Woodward Interests LLC will open a 341-room Four Seasons hotel in New Orleans. The property will also include 92 private residences on the top floors of the building. The project is a redevelopment of the 33-story World Trade Center office building. Completion is slated for late 2020. Two Canal Owner LLC, in which both developers are partners, will own the building. The first Four Seasons in New Orleans, the property will be situated within the central business district. It will be located next to the French Quarter, Warehouse District and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and feature views of the Mississippi River. “New Orleans has been a priority market for us for many years and we have been waiting for the right opportunity to make our debut in this dynamic city,” says John Davison, president and CEO of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. The hotel will include meeting and event spaces, four food and drink outlets, retail space, spa facilities and a rooftop pool. Mali Carow, a Four Seasons veteran of almost 20 years, will serve as general manager. Founded in 1960, Four Seasons currently operates 117 hotels and resorts …
Office vacancies are falling across the big metros of the Northeast as robust user demand outpaces the supply of new construction. Deliveries in the last year have primarily been limited to Class A, build-to-suit properties and mixed-use developments. Meanwhile, office tenants are seeking high-end amenities at favorable prices. Nationally, the office vacancy rate stood at 16.8 percent in the second quarter, up slightly from 16.6 percent a year ago, according to real estate research firm Reis. Net absorption for the quarter totaled 3.2 million square feet, down from 3.9 million square feet a year ago. The average asking rent was $33.79 per square foot, up 2.2 percent on a year-over-year basis. Approximately 11.1 million square feet of office space was under construction at the end of the second quarter across Philadelphia, New York and Boston, according to CoStar Group. Helped by approximately 8.3 million square feet of absorption in the second quarter, the average vacancy rate across all three markets was 8.1 percent. Rather than undertake costly new ground-up construction projects, many developers are choosing to redevelop existing assets and efficiently incorporate office space into mixed-use projects. Coworking tenants occupied 54.2 million square feet of office space nationally at the …
In the words of Marilyn Monroe, “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” The retail market forges ahead in its quest to essentially reinvent itself in response to the ever-increasing growth in online sales. This revitalization is characterized by decreasing the footprint of their brick and mortar stores and expanding the size of their e-commerce fulfillment centers. Fortunately, the biggest beneficiary of this growing trend is the industrial market. There’s been a lot of talk about retailers suffering from the boom in internet sales. Quite frankly, do you really believe a retailer cares if they sell their product in a storefront or through the internet and their e-commerce delivery system? I contend they do not care as long as it is their product being sold. The retailers that do not embrace internet sales, in conjunction with their in-store sales, will be going the way of companies like Toys “R” Us — losing sales and eventually closing down because they are not able to compete in today’s online world. The competition between e-commerce delivery systems has heated up even further due to “just in time” or last-mile delivery. Customer expectation on some items is shifting from two-day …
Real estate buyers spent a record-setting amount of cash in the sector in the third quarter and remain bullish on the properties amid healthy absorption and rent growth. The industrial real estate sector, traditionally known as the land of big, boring boxes, has become the darling of real estate amid the growth of e-commerce. Investors have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into industrial properties over the last five years alone, and not even the prospect of new construction potentially outpacing demand has tempered enthusiasm. “With online sales continuing to grow at a faster rate than general retail sales, there is no lack of continued tenant demand for industrial warehouses and flex and distribution space,” says Rebecca Wells, CCIM, senior vice president and principal of commercial real estate service provider Lee & Associates in Indianapolis. “We expect investment activity will continue at a red-hot rate through the end of this year and into 2020.” Industrial sales totaled $40.6 billion in the third quarter this year, the highest dollar volume ever recorded in a single quarter for the property type, according to Real Capital Analytics, a New York-based researcher that tracks commercial property deals of $2.5 million or more. An $18.7 …
LIVINGSTON, ALA. — Maryland-based Enviva, a producer of wood pellets, has unveiled plans to build a facility in Livingston, 60 miles southwest of Tuscaloosa. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) issued an air construction permit for the facility, which will be located at the Port of Epes Industrial Park and represents an initial investment of $175 million. The facility will produce wood pellets as an energy source and create openings for 85 full-time jobs, with additional jobs anticipated to construct and support the plant. The Livingston facility will be part of Epes’ collection of pellet plants in Mississippi and Alabama. The wood pellets from the Epes plant will be transported via the nearby Tennessee-Tombigbee River to Enviva’s planned deep-water marine terminal in Pascagoula, Miss. and exported then to Europe and Asia. The plant’s planned capacity is expected to be 1.2 million metric tons of wood pellets per year. Enviva expects to be ready for construction in early 2020, subject to final investment approval. Enviva expects to deliver the facility in 15 to 18 months.
KENDALL, FLA. — Allegro Dadeland has opened a 212-unit senior living community at 7400 SW 88th St. in the Miami suburb of Kendall. The high-rise, pet-friendly Dadeland complex offers one-, two- and three-bedroom layouts. Communal amenities include housekeeping, transportation, dining venues, a bar, fitness center, salon, theater, valet parking, common areas and a pool. The community is situated in mixed-use neighborhood, adjacent to restaurants and the Dadeland Mall.
GARNER, N.C. — Duke Realty Corp. has broken ground on Greenfield North 1201 a speculative 165,921-square-foot bulk warehouse in Garner. Located at 1201 N. Greenfield Parkway in the Greenfield North Business Park, the warehouse will be seven miles southeast of Raleigh. The new industrial building will feature 32-foot clear height and an early suppression, fast response fire protection system; 2,400-amp electrical service; a 120-foot truck court; and parking for 96 trailers and 129 automobiles. Duke Realty expects to complete Greenfield North 1201 in July 2020. Greenfield North Business Park is a master-planned industrial campus located at the interchange of Interstate 40, U.S. Route 70 and the proposed extension of Interstate 40. The rail-served industrial park is near Raleigh-Durham International Airport and the I-440 Beltline. Current park tenants include Atlantic Tire Distributors, Crown Equipment Corp., Mattress Firm, the North Carolina Department of Transportation, Mohawk Industries, Butterball and Golden State Foods.
