FEDERAL WAY, WASH. – The Andover Co./CORFAC International has arranged the sale of an industrial property located at 2835 S. 344th St. in Federal Way, about 22 miles south of Seattle. Khalsa Gurmat Center purchased the 10,578-square-foot building from Federal Way Campus LLC for an undisclosed price. Brian Bruinink, Mike Hemphill and Jim Bisset of Andover/CORFAC represented the seller, while Jeff Crane, also with Andover/CORFAC, represented the buyer in the deal.
ST. GEORGE, UTAH – Faris Lee Investments has brokered the sale of a single-tenant retail property located at 1596 S. Convention Center Drive in St. George. An undisclosed seller sold the building for $2.2 million. Jack in the Box occupies the 3,260-square-foot property on a triple-net leased basis. Joe Chichester, Thomas Chichester and Matt Brooks of Faris Lee represented the buyer, a Northern California-based private investor, while NAI Excel represented the seller.
SALT LAKE CITY — Newmark Grubb ACRES, a Utah-based brokerage firm, has arranged the sale of a portfolio of single-tenant retail properties leased to Codale Electric Supply Inc., a Salt Lake City-based distributor of electric, energy and lighting products. The sales price was $91.3 million. The portfolio includes nine properties, six of which are located in Utah. One of the assets is in Nevada (Elko), and two of the properties are in Wyoming (Rock Springs and Casper). Codale has a total of 13 retail locations throughout the western United States. According to Codale’s website, its stores range in size from 15,000 square feet to 54,000 square feet, not including the company’s 210,000-square-foot headquarters, which was one of the assets included in the portfolio sale. All totaled, the portfolio spans 476,500 square feet. Bryce Blanchard of Newmark Grubb ACRES represented the seller, Holt Properties, a real estate company owned and operated by the Holt family, which founded Codale Electric in 1975. Blanchard also procured the buyer, an undisclosed, out-of-state REIT. Sonepar, a French electronics distribution firm, acquired Codale in 2012. — Taylor Williams
Memphis ended 2017 with an overall vacancy rate of 14.8 percent, which is up slightly from where the year started at 14.5 percent — the highest level in three years. As the saying goes, “don’t judge a book by its cover,” and this especially applies to the Memphis office market. In 2017, 600,000 square feet of office space was absorbed. Developers also started 2017 with more than 1.2 million square feet of new office space in the pipeline, with 800,000 square feet delivered last year and the other 400,000 square feet expected to be delivered by the end of the first quarter this year. So within just six months, nearly 6 percent of Memphis’ total office market size was added to the overall available space. That is more new product being delivered than the city has seen in over a decade. Of this 1.2 million square feet, nearly 80 percent will come from adaptive reuse projects, where previously non-functioning properties located in non-core submarkets have undergone significant repurposing. The Sears Crosstown building was erected in 1927 as a 1.5 million-square-foot, mail-order processing warehouse and Sears retail store. The project was the largest building in Memphis at the time of its …
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. — Colliers International has brokered the sale of a 218,500-square-foot multi-tenant office property, located at 365 West Passaic St. in Rochelle Park, for an undisclosed price. Rochelle Park is about three miles northwest of Hackensack. Colliers represented the seller, Onyx Equities and Garrison Investment Group in the transaction. The buyer was a structured joint venture between TAK Group and Bergman Real Estate Group. The property was 77 percent occupied at the time of sale to a tenant roster that included healthcare, financial services, engineering, retail and transportation.
NEW YORK CITY — Cushman & Wakefield has arranged a 99-year ground lease for 311 West 42nd Street in the Midtown West neighborhood of Manhattan. Terms of the lease were not disclosed. Taconic Investment Partners and National Real Estate Advisors have leased the property from owners 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East and plan to demolish the existing building and construct a 350,000-square-foot rental building with ground-floor retail. The planned development will include an affordable rental housing component. Cushman & Wakefield represented the owner in the transaction. 1199SEIU will remain in the current space until 2020, when the union will relocate to its new headquarters.
CONCORD, MASS. — HFF has arranged the $11 million sale and $7.1 million financing of a 104,527-square-foot office property in Concord, about 20 miles northwest of Boston. HFF represented the undisclosed seller and arranged a five-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan through East Boston Savings Bank for the buyer, Azad Legacy Partners. Located at 696 Virginia Road, the property was originally constructed in 1962 and expanded in 1977. In 1997, it was completely rebuilt. The asset consists of two interconnected buildings on 28 acres of land. At the time of sale, the asset was 100 percent leased to the U.S. General Services Administration and is home to the New England District of the Army Corps of Engineers.
EAST HARTFORD, CONN. — O,R&L Commercial has negotiated the sale of a 30,544-square-foot, former medical building in East Hartford for $1.5 million. The buyer, Ash Street Holdings LLC doing business as KIA of East Hartford Inc., plans to completely renovate and expand the building, which is located at 99 Ash St. After renovations, Kia of East Hartford will move from its current location, 540 Connecticut Blvd. Jay L. Morris and Luke Massirio of O,R&L Commercial represented the seller in the transaction, Ash Realty Associates LLC. Colliers International represented the buyer. The vacant property was built in 1981 and is the former home of UCONN Health.
NEW YORK CITY — Investment and development company Equilibrium Equities has acquired a 270,000-square-foot distribution center at 340 Upper Oakwood Ave. in Elmira Heights for an undisclosed price. The multi-tenant property was constructed in 1962 as a grocery distribution warehouse and includes 45 tailgate loading doors and a clear height of up to 28 feet. Equilibrium acquired the property from a former owner of Horwitz Paper, which was a large wholesale distributor of paper products and janitorial supplies that acquired the building in 2001. The facility will be rebranded by Equilibrium as the Victory Business Center. Michael Manzari of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller in the transaction. At the time of sale, the property was 70 percent leased.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Maker Bros. has broken ground on St. Elmo Public Market, a mixed-use development in Austin that is valued at approximately $120 million, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Project features include a 40,000-square-foot public market, 103,380 square feet of office space, 380 apartment units and a 156-room hotel. The development, which is situated on a 12.5-acre site at 4329 S. Congress Ave. on the city’s south side, is expected to open in May 2019.