— By Todd Hamilton of Citywide Commercial Real Estate — The Phoenix industrial market has felt like a game of pause and play over the past 12 months. A year ago, the sector hit pause amid election uncertainty. Post-election hopefulness reignited activity, but tariffs triggered another slowdown. Then came summer, which is always transactionally slow in Phoenix. This pattern was especially pronounced in the mid-size industrial segment, which was dominated by properties with less than 100,000 square feet. Typically owned by mom-and-pop investors or regional players, these groups lack institutional backing and are more sensitive to factors like interest rates, rising product costs and recession chatter. Despite the unpredictability, Phoenix industrial space has maintained its trademark resilience. Rents grew 4.7 percent year over year, per CoStar’s latest market report, while 787 sales were completed in the past 12 months, at an average price of $180 per square foot. Large-scale inventory (buildings 400,000 square feet and above) has also enjoyed a recent resurgence. At the start of the year, we were wringing our hands over multiple vacant, million-plus-square-foot buildings. Since then, five of those buildings have been leased or sold, with full occupancy expected by year-end. That activity accounts for a …
GLENDALE, ARIZ. — IndiCap and VAC Development have broken ground for Bethany Bay, a Class A shallow-bay industrial project in Glendale. Located at 16380 and 16840 W. Bethany Home Road, the $31 million development will feature 136,800 square feet spread across two buildings. Completion is slated for August 2026. The 98,060-square-foot Building 1 will offer a clear height of 28 feet and 5,000 amps of power, and the 39,226-square-foto Building 2 will feature a clear height of 24 feet and 2,500 amps of power. Suite sizes will range from 4,500 square feet to 18,000 square feet, with each building accommodating four to six users. Building 2 will be delivered with fully built-out speculative office suites ranging from 800 square feet to 1,100 square feet — each of which will be connected to warehouse space and equipped with HVAC, lighting and restrooms for near-immediate occupancy. MIke Schwab of Land Advisors handled the project on behalf of IndiCap. The project team includes Berkeley Partners as senior lender, Olive Point Capital as preferred equity, Newmark as lender placement, Colliers as leasing broker, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. as title company, Ware Malcomb as architect and civil engineer and FCL Builders as general contractor.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — JLL Capital Markets has secured a $19.5 million loan for the refinancing of Villas Las Mandarinas, a multifamily property located at 4250 E. 29th St. in Tucson. Brad Miner and Drew Lydon of JLL arranged the fixed-rate loan through Santander Bank N.A. for the borrower, GDL Asset Management and GDL Property Management. Built in 1977 and renovated in 2023, Villas Las Mandarinas features 322 apartments, averaging 322 square feet, and modern amenities.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Geronimo Casitas LLC has acquired Geronimo Casitas, a multifamily property in Tucson, from The Ramy Muaddi and Cecilia Muaddi Revocable Trust for $1.4 million. Located at 2514 N. Geronimo Ave., the 8,422-square-foot Geronimo Casitas features 19 apartments. Allan Mendelsberg and Joey Martinez of Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR represented both parties in the transaction.
PEORIA, ARIZ. — Barclay Group is developing Vistancia Commerce Park at FIVE NORTH, a speculative industrial park within the 7,100-acre Vistancia master-planned community in Peoria’s Northern Peoria Corridor. Vistancia Commerce Park at FIVE NORTH will feature 239,700 square feet of industrial space spread across four flexible building configurations. The park will include the 43,600-square-foot Building A, 54,500-square-foot Building B, 48,000-square-foot Building C and 93,600-square-foot Building D, with space divisible down to 9,400 square feet. Buildings will offer 28-foot to 32-foot clear heights, full HVAC, LED lighting and 3,000 amps of power (expandable) per building, as well as both dock- and grade-level loading capabilities. Construction is slated to begin in second-quarter 2026, with delivery expected in second-quarter 2027. Butler Design Group is serving as architect and GM Civil is serving as civil engineer. Riley Gilbert, Marc Hertzberg, Kelly Royle and Nicole Marshall of JLL are handling leasing for the project.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR has arranged the sale of a 88,848-square-foot retail space at 9550 E. Golf Links Road in Tucson. Bob Speedway LLC acquired the property from Leyenda En Tiempo for $5.7 million. Greg Furrier and Natalie Furrier of Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR handled the transaction.
— By Jason Price of Commercial Properties Inc./CORFAC International — The Phoenix office market continues to show balance as leasing patterns shift and tenants prioritize smaller footprints. The metro’s office inventory totals 195.5 million square feet across roughly 9,000 buildings. Construction has edged upward year over year, with a little more than 900,000 square feet currently underway compared with 844,000 square feet a year ago. Another 1.5 million square feet is expected to deliver between 2025 and 2026, a restrained pace that should help prevent oversupply. This discipline has become critical as companies continue to right-size and lenders remain cautious. The overall market faces slower demand for large contiguous blocks, limited financing availability and an elevated level of sublease inventory that will take time to absorb. Most of the sublease space consists of second-generation Class A and B product in downtown and the Camelback Corridor, where tenants are evaluating long-term space requirements before recommitting. Even so, Phoenix’s fundamentals remain relatively healthy compared with many other metros. The city’s diversified economy, steady population inflow and expanding employment base continue to support leasing activity, particularly for move-in-ready suites of less than 10,000 square feet. Small-business confidence and the return-to-office movement among local …
CHANDLER, ARIZ. — JLL Capital Markets has arranged $73.2 million in permanent financing for the Chandler Shopping Center Portfolio, a two-property retail portfolio in Chandler. JLL represented the borrower, a joint venture managed by a real estate investment trust, in securing the five-year, fixed-rate loans through a national bank. The financing was structured as one loan secured by two mortgages: $51 million for Chandler Festival and $22.2 million for Chandler Gateway. The portfolio encompasses 616,639 square feet of retail space along Chandler Boulevard. TJ Maxx, Ross Dress for Less, Nordstrom Rack and PetSmart are tenants at the 354,548-square-foot Chandler Festival. The 262,091-square-foot Chandler Gateway is anchored by Walmart and Hobby Lobby. Kevin MacKenzie, Jon Mikula, Jason Carlos, Quin Madden and Tyler Naughten of JLL represented the borrower in the financing.
TEMPE, ARIZ. — A joint venture between Core Spaces and Wexford Developments has broken ground on Hub on Campus Tempe, a 30-story student housing tower located near the Arizona State University campus in downtown Tempe. The development, which will feature 1,957 student housing beds, a rooftop amenity deck and ground-level retail space, is scheduled for completion in summer 2028. Kennedy Wilson provided construction financing for the project, and TSB Capital Advisors consulted on the transaction. The development team includes general contractor Findorff and RSP Architects. Core Spaces will manage Hub on Campus Tempe upon completion and the firm’s in-house design team will design the interiors. The project site was formerly home to the historic Harry Walker House, also known as the House of Tricks restaurant, which was recently relocated next to Tempe City Hall on Fifth Street for future preservation and restoration. The development team is working to preserve the nearby First Congregational Church, which will be transferred to city ownership to ensure its continued protection. “This development will provide much-needed housing while also keeping the city’s historic landmarks part of the evolving landscaping,” says Doug Tichenor, senior director of entitlements at Core Spaces. “We see this project as a …
PHOENIX — Conor Commercial Real Estate, along with Globe Corp. as capital partner, has won the auction for a 40-acre parcel of land at East Deer Valley Drive and North 7th Street in Phoenix. Conor won the land site with a $24.7 million bid. The company plans to develop a 453,708-square-foot industrial project with four buildings ranging from 88,512 square feet to 167,040 square feet. The buildings will be designed for light distribution, assembly or advanced manufacturing with 32- to 36-foot clear heights, a minimum of 3,000-amp electrical service for each building, oversized drive-in doors and abundant employee parking. Construction is slated to begin in early second-quarter 2026 with completion planned for late in the second quarter of 2027. McShane Construction Co. and Ware Malcomb will provide design-build services and Kimley-Horn will provide civil engineering services for the project.