NEW YORK CITY — Denham Wolf Real Estate Services has expanded and extended its office lease at 520 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan’s Garment District. Denham Wolf has been a tenant at the 26-story building since 2001. The new 11-year lease features an additional 3,887 square feet of space for a total footprint of 9,253 square feet. Christopher Turner and Kate Hrobsky internally represented Denham Wolf in the lease negotiations. Matthew Mandell represented the landlord, GFP Real Estate, also on an internal basis
INDIANAPOLIS — Alfa Laval, a global provider of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling products, has signed a 324,000-square-foot industrial lease at Building 2 within County Line Commerce industrial park in Indianapolis. The tenant will occupy the entire building. Developed by a joint venture between Gershman and Citimark, County Line Commerce consists of five buildings totaling nearly 1.9 million square feet. Construction is now complete at the 170-acre industrial park, which is located at the intersection of County Line Road and I-65. Brian Seitz of JLL represented the landlords in the lease, while Charlie Polk and Brian Buschuk of JLL represented the tenant. Buildings 1, 3 and 4 are still available for lease.
MOUNT PROSPECT, ILL. — Interra Realty has negotiated the sale of a five-building, 30-unit multifamily portfolio in the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect for $4.3 million. The properties sold to local buyers in two separate deals. Patrick Kennelly, Paul Waterloo and Nathan Zito of Interra represented the undisclosed seller. Hubert Cioromski of Troy Realty represented the buyer of three buildings, while Nader Shahat of Green Equities LLC represented the buyer of the other two buildings. Constructed in 1978, the three-story buildings each contain six units in a mix of one- and two-bedroom layouts. Most of the units include individual balconies and were recently renovated with updated kitchens and baths. They were fully occupied at the time of sale.
MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $3.5 million sale of a single-tenant retail property net leased to Caliber Collision in Mount Pleasant within central Michigan. The property at 1005 Corporate Drive features a newly renovated, 15,800-square-foot automotive building on two acres. Caliber Collision maintains a 15-year lease. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder represented the buyer, an Iowa-based corporation. The seller was a Delaware-based limited liability company.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL. — AXIS 360 Commercial Real Estate Specialists has brokered the $1.5 million sale of a 4.7-acre commercial lot on Towanda Barnes Road in Bloomington. Laura Pritts of AXIS 360 represented the undisclosed seller. Joseph & Camper Commercial represented the buyer, which plans to develop the property into medical-related use. The site is located between the Parke Regency Hotel and Conference Center and Compeer Financial.
RALEIGH, N.C. AND WASHINGTON, D.C. — Advance Auto Parts Inc. (NYSE: AAP) has agreed to sell Worldpac, the Raleigh-based company’s automotive parts wholesale distribution business, to funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) for $1.5 billion in cash. Advance Auto Parts operated 321 Worldpac locations primarily within the United States as of the end of the second quarter. These warehouses, 135 of which are branded Autopart International, are generally larger than the company’s retail locations, averaging approximately 26,000 square feet. Worldpac offers over 293,000 parts for domestic and import vehicles and primarily serves professional customers such as vehicle repair shops, with services including same-day delivery of automotive parts through a fleet of company-owned vehicles. Over the past 12 months, these locations generated approximately $2.1 billion in revenue and $100 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). Advance expects to close the transaction before the end of the year, with Advance expecting net proceeds of approximately $1.2 billion after taxes and transaction fees. These proceeds will be used to strengthen the company’s balance sheet and invest in its core retail business, said Shane O’Kelly, president and CEO of Advance Auto Parts, during an earnings call earlier …
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Build-to-Rent Sector Remains in a Sweet Spot, Say InterFace Panelists
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Build-to-rent (BTR), or purpose-built neighborhoods of single-family rental homes, has been an emerging subsector of the multifamily continuum the past several years. The housing type fills a niche for renters as it offers more living space and privacy than typical apartments, but is more affordable and amenitized than for-sale homes. The BTR sector began its ascent during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic when a confluence of factors —the rise in work-from-home and hybrid work schedules, an increase in household formation of younger millennials, the desirability of more private space including garages and backyards — led to a sharp increase in demand for single-family rental (SFR) homes. Underpinning the increased demand for BTR living is the unaffordability of homeownership for a large swath of Americans. As of mid-year, home prices are now 47 percent higher than they were in early 2020, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Home insurance premiums have also risen aggressively in the recent past — up 21 percent between 2022 and 2023, according to the study. Meanwhile, mortgage payments are increasingly untenable as interest rates have also risen dramatically in recent years. For these reasons, institutional investors are actively participating …
SAN ANTONIO — Dallas-based developer Palladium USA has broken ground on a $75 million multifamily project in San Antonio. The development will be situated on an 18-acre site on the city’s south side and will feature 288 units in one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans. Amenities will include a pool, fitness center, conference center, dog park, business center, children’s playroom and clubroom with a mini kitchen. Cross Architects designed the community, and Brownstone Group is the general contractor. Palladium has partnered with the San Antonio Housing Trust Public Facility Corp. (SAHTPFC), which issued $35 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance the project. PNC Bank provided $33 million in equity and more than $30 million in long-term debt. The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs provided $36 million of 4 percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credits. Preleasing is set to begin in winter 2025.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Four Hands has signed a 570,489-square-foot industrial lease near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on the city’s southeast side. The locally based distributor of high-end furniture will occupy the entirety of Airport Logistics Center Building 2, which is part of a larger 92-acre development. Ace Schlameus and Kyle McCulloch of JLL represented the landlord, Dallas-based Dalfen Industrial, in the lease negotiations. Chad Marsh of Endeavor Real Estate Group represented the tenant. The deal marks the largest industrial lease in Austin this year, according to the brokerage teams.
ADDISON, TEXAS — Bank of America has renewed its full-building, 553,779-square-foot office lease at Hallmark Center I in the northern Dallas metro of Addison. The lease term is 10 years. Rhett Miller and Matt Wieser of Stream Realty Partners represented the landlord, The RMR Group, in the lease negotiations. Andy Leatherman and Bret Hefton of JLL in Dallas represented Bank of America, which signed its original lease to be the building’s sole occupant in 2013. Bank of America has also preleased half the space at Parkside Uptown, a 500,000-square-foot office building in Dallas that is under construction.