CALEDONIA, WIS. — Zilber Property Group (ZPG) has unveiled plans to develop a new speculative industrial facility totaling 142,000 square feet at Caledonia Corporate Park in the southern Milwaukee suburb of Caledonia. Named Zilber Industrial 2 at Caledonia Corporate Park, the facility will feature a clear height of 32 feet, high-bay LED warehouse lighting, an ESFR sprinkler system, onsite trailer parking and options for expandable truck loading and vehicle parking. Construction is expected to begin this summer, with occupancy slated for this winter. The building marks the third within ZPG’s 93-acre Caledonia Corporate Park. Site preparation and infrastructure work began at the park in August 2022. ZPG completed Zilber Industrial 1 in spring 2023. The 233,250-square-foot building is fully leased. In early 2025, ZPG completed a 311,000-square-foot build-to-suit for Saputo Cheese USA Inc. The park includes 54 acres of remaining developable land, with capacity for up to four additional buildings totaling approximately 860,000 square feet.
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MAPLE GROVE, MINN. — CBRE has brokered the sale of Arbor Lakes Medical Building, an 89,052-square-foot medical outpatient building located at 12000 Elm Creek Blvd. in Maple Grove. The property is 97 percent leased to tenants such as M Health Fairview, North Memorial Health, Reproductive Medicine and Infertility Associates, Northstar Neurological Clinic, Midwest Radiology and South Lake Pediatrics Clinic. Services offered at the building include imaging, oral surgery, dentistry, physical therapy, reproductive medicine/fertility care and ophthalmology. Chris Bodnar, Brannan Knott, Mindy Berman, Zack Holderman, Cole Reethof, Jesse Greshin and Trent Jemmett of CBRE partnered with Ryan Watts of CBRE and Steve Brown of Forte Real Estate Partners to represent the seller, Minnesota-based Olympus Ventures. The buyer and sales price were undisclosed.
MCCOOK, ILL. — Core Industrial Realty has negotiated a long-term lease for 36,440 square feet at 8401 W. 47th St. in McCook. Ryan Mullins and Frank Damato IV of Core Industrial represented the tenant, Kangde Xin America LLC, in its relocation and expansion effort. Vernon Schultz of Colliers represented the undisclosed landlord.
HOBART, IND. — The Boulder Group has arranged the $2.1 million sale of a single-tenant retail property net leased to Dollar General Market in Hobart within southwest Indiana. The newly constructed building is the larger prototype of 12,480 square feet. There are 15 years remaining on the lease, which features 5 percent rental escalations every five years throughout the primary term and at all five of the five-year renewal options. Randy Blankstein and Jimmy Goodman of Boulder Group represented the seller, a Midwest-based developer. Jack Friskney, Aaron Kuroiwa and Austin Meeker of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, an Indiana-based individual completing a 1031 exchange.
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Desi Chowrastha, an Indian eatery based in Texas, has secured its first Kansas City-area location at 6301 W. 135th St. in Overland Park. Max Kosoglad and David Block of Block & Co. Inc. Realtors represented the undisclosed landlord in the lease. A grand opening is slated for this summer. At 7,564 square feet, Desi Chowrastha will be the largest Indian restaurant in Overland Park. The restaurant will occupy space within a 15,500-square-foot pad building of Corbin Park Retail Village and will join co-tenants American Red Cross, Mozari Alterations and Embody. The name Desi Chowrastha is derived from “Desi,” a word used to describe the people, cultures and products of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and “Chowrastha,” a word used to communicate the joint to hang out with friends and how Indian culture evolved around them. The menu features a variety of kabobs, curries, appetizers and sandwiches. The chain currently has 25 franchisees across America, with many others under contract. Block & Co. is the leasing and property management company for the pad building.
By Nate Wilkins, associate at Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC Office conversions represent one of the hottest real estate plays in the country, and Texas is undoubtedly a hotspot for those projects. According to D Magazine, in Dallas and Houston combined, there is more than 10 million square feet of vacant office space that is currently being transformed or is slated for conversion. A majority of these projects are mixed-use, meaning that office tenants will eventually be occupying the same building as residential tenants. Therefore, there are several key factors that office tenants and their landlords must consider when signing or renewing leases in the conversion projects, including utilization of common areas, use of utilities and parking allotments. What follows are some strategies for navigating office conversions as they become more prevalent in Texas over the next several years. Common Areas In a typical mixed-use property in which retail space is on the ground floor with multifamily above, landlords are prone to include lease language that states, “Tenant shall have no right to use the elevator lobbies, apartment floors and any other areas designated by landlord exclusively for residential occupants.” While standard, this language becomes troublesome when the only way …
Competition for Labor, Land Is Reshaping the I-85 Industrial Corridor, According to InterFace Panelists
by Abby Cox
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Stretching from Alabama to Atlanta, through the Carolinas and into Virginia, the I-85 corridor has long been a backbone of industrial growth in the Southeastern United States. Once celebrated as a magnet for logistic hubs, manufacturing plants and warehouse developments, this valuable category of real estate is now showing signs of strain. Editor’s note: InterFace Conference Group, a division of France Media Inc., produces networking and educational conferences for commercial real estate executives. To sign up for email announcements about specific events, visit www.interfaceconferencegroup.com/subscribe. During the COVID-19 pandemic, industrial real estate, especially warehouses and distribution centers, saw a dramatic surge in demand due to a rise in e-commerce, inventory stockpiling due to supply chain issues and lower interest rates. Fast forward five years later, the industrial market is now experiencing a slowdown due to new pressures that are reversing or slowing down many of those trends. “People are concerned about making a decision today without knowing what’s going to happen tomorrow,” said John Coleman, senior vice president of Graham &. Co. Coleman specializes in representing both tenants and landlords across the Birmingham and Montgomery industrial markets in Alabama. Coleman’s comments came while on stage during the closing panel at InterFace …
RICHMOND COUNTY, N.C. — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced plans to develop a new, $10 billion cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) innovation campus in Richmond County, roughly 80 miles east of Charlotte. According to the Seattle-based company, this marks one of the largest capital investment announcements in the history of the state. Upon completion, the campus will house data centers with computer servers, data storage drives, networking equipment and other technology infrastructure used for cloud computing capabilities and generative AI. The project will be situated at one of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina’s Selectsite Readiness Program sites, which are designed to accommodate industries like AI and advanced manufacturing. Specific details about the site and construction timelines were not released. Amazon reports that the investment will create at least 500 new jobs, adding to the more than 192,000 tech professionals already in the state, as well as thousands of jobs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center supply chain. “Amazon’s $10 billion investment in North Carolina underscores our commitment to driving innovation and advancing the future of cloud computing and AI technologies,” says David Zapolsky, chief global affairs and legal officer with Amazon. “This investment will position North Carolina …
HOUSTON — Provident Industrial, in partnership with Junction Commercial Real Estate, is underway on Eastex 59, a 740,404-square-foot project in North Houston. The site spans 62.5 acres and is located just east of George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The development will consist of four buildings that will range in size from 148,075 to 224,133 square feet. Three of the buildings will feature front-load configurations, and the fourth will have a cross-dock configuration. Eastex 59 will also offer users a total of 246 dock doors and parking for 522 cars and 200 trailers. Seeberger Architecture is designing the project, and Langan is providing civil engineering services. Completion is slated for late 2026.
HOUSTON — Locally based brokerage and development firm Finial Group has completed construction of a 169,860-square-foot industrial complex in southwest Houston. The property consists of seven freestanding buildings on a 20-acre site at 6811 McHard Road that were developed in three phases over the past five years. Finial Group completed and sold the first two buildings in 2020 and subsequently broke ground on the next two buildings in 2021. Those facilities are now leased to Precision Manufacturing and TradeBlock Inc.