BEAUMONT, TEXAS — General contractor Catamount Constructors and St. Louis-based HDA Architects have completed a 61,300-square-foot industrial expansion project for Giglio Distributing in Beaumont. The project added a 40,000-square-foot warehouse; a 12,800-square-foot receiving dock area; 5,900-square-foot side bay loading area; 1,600 square feet of office space; and an 800-square-foot customer pickup space. Prior to the expansion, the facility spanned 74,000 square feet of warehouse and office space. Giglio Distributing is a locally based wholesale alcoholic beverage distributor that also carries some select non-alcoholic brands.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — The Birch Group has announced plans to renovate 99 and 199 Cherry Hill Road, a two-building, 191,249-square-foot office complex in the Northern New Jersey community of Parsippany. The $1 million capital improvement program will upgrade the lobbies, conference rooms, hallways, bathrooms and common spaces. The Birch Group acquired the complex, which currently houses tenants such as Bayada Home Healthcare, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Scholls Wellness Co., in January 2020. Cushman & Wakefield leases the property.
MAGNOLIA, TEXAS — Gulf Coast Commercial is finalizing plans for Magnolia Village, a 60-acre mixed-use project that will feature residential, office, retail and restaurant uses in Magnolia, located northwest of Houston. Magnolia Village will be located directly across Spur 149 from Stratus Properties’ proposed 120-acre Magnolia Place mixed-use development, where construction of a new H-E-B grocery store is scheduled to begin in June. Phase I of Magnolia Village will span 36 acres and include both retail and office elements, as well as 300 multifamily units. Completion of Phase I is slated for fall 2022. Ironbridge Realty will market the retail and restaurant space for lease. Gulf Coast is purchasing the site from Parkside Capital, a Houston-based land fund that has expedited development of the intersection by designing a regional detention facility for the surrounding 150 acres and obtaining a planned development ordinance from the City of Magnolia.
SAN FRANCISCO — CBRE Capital Markets has secured construction financing for The Maclac Building, a five-story, 108,161-square-foot property located at 192-198 Utah St. and 151-191 Potrero Ave. in San Francisco. The borrower, a joint venture between affiliates of Comstock Realty Partners and Dune Real Estate Partners, plans to redevelop the asset, which is zoned as a production, distribution and repair (PDR). PDR refers to a variety of businesses encompassing dent and repair shops, marketing and advertising companies, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers and others, and according to the San Francisco Planning Department is used “instead of industrial to avoid conjuring images of heavy, ‘smoke-stack’ industry, such as large manufacturing plants, smelting operations and refineries.” Mike Walker and Brad Zampa of CBRE’s San Francisco office arranged the five-year, floating-rate, full-term interest-only financing for the borrower. The property spans five interconnected buildings over two parcels and half a city block in San Francisco’s SOMA Potrero District. Redevelopment started in May 2020 and is being completed in phases, with delivery expected for third-quarter 2022. The joint venture plans to reconfigure, upgrade and expand the current structures with 4,000 amps of power, updated building systems, green roof terraces and a multi-story glass atrium lobby tying the …
WHITELAND, IND. — Mohr Capital, a Dallas-based privately held real estate investment firm, has started construction on a new speculative industrial development within Mohr Logistics Park in Whiteland. The 827,000-square-foot development will feature a clear height of 32 feet. Mohr is also scheduled to break ground on a 1 million-square-foot project within the logistics park in the next 60 days. The 827,000-square-foot building is slated for completion in October, while the 1 million-square-foot project is scheduled to wrap up in January.
LOS ANGELES — Parkview Financial has provided a $21.5 million construction loan to Oakwood CA LLC for the development of multifamily property located at 4065 Oakwood Ave. in Los Angeles’ East Hollywood submarket. Slated for completion in 2022, the five-story building will feature 68 apartments in a mix of two studios, 25 one-bedroom units and 41 two-bedroom units with an average size of 1,059 square feet. Fourteen of the units will be designated for low-income residents. Additionally, the community will feature a 4,000-square-foot courtyard and 100 parking spaces.
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS — Temple, Texas-based GTB Development will soon begin construction on Phase II of Highland Village, a 120-acre mixed-use project that will be located in the northern Austin suburb of Georgetown. Phase II of the development includes 299 single-family homes and a 14.8-acre (approximately 300 to 325 units) multifamily community, as well as unspecified amounts of retail, office and medical office space. The development team, which includes development manager American Southwest Co., expects to complete infrastructure hookups by the end of the second quarter of 2022. Phase I of the project began in July 2019 and ended in April 2020 with the delivery of 49 single-family residences known as The Oaks at Highland Village.
BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. — The City of Bakersfield has announced that Amazon will convert a vacant big-box retail property, located at 3500-3600 Wilson Road in Bakersfield, into a last-mile facility. The new facility will create approximately 200 new permanent jobs. Formerly a Kmart, the 93,000-square-foot property will undergo a $20 million renovation. Amazon is expected to begin operations in fourth-quarter 2021. Renovations will include a new roof and parking lot, enhanced lighting, landscaping and the addition of roll-up bay doors. Amazon is growing its last-mile delivery efforts to speed up customer delivery times and provide new innovations to customers, according to Amazon.
DENTON TEXAS — Cold Creek Solutions will develop a 374,560-square-foot speculative cold storage facility on a 23-acre site just northwest of Interstate 35 and Barthold Road in the North Texas city of Denton. The facility will feature 45-foot clear heights, more than 60,000 pallet positions, multiple tenant suites with convertible temperature functionality, 65 trailer parking spaces and ample car parking. The developer is seeking a joint venture equity partner and has engaged JLL to market that opportunity.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — CBRE has arranged financing for a new 133-unit multifamily project in Jacksonville called The Hendricks at San Marco. The $30 million apartment development in the city’s San Marco neighborhood will be located near the corner of Atlantic Boulevard and Hendricks Avenue. Jeff Kinney and Phil Rachels of CBRE arranged the funding on behalf of the development team, Harbert Realty Services and Corner Lot Development. The financing included a three-year construction loan through First Horizon Bank and joint venture equity from GMC Properties, which will also manage the property upon completion. The Hendricks at San Marco will be located next to the Publix-anchored East San Marco shopping center. Construction on the apartment community is expected to start this month.