New York firm pays $3.5M for Philadelphia truck terminal as it scours market for more opportunities

A New York real estate firm bought a truck terminal in Philadelphia for $3.5 million, marking the company’s first acquisition in the city as it plans to quickly expand its industrial holdings here.

Imperium Capital’s IG Logistics bought 3200 S. 70th St., a four-acre property that had been owned and used by XTL Inc., a transportation company that continues to lease the site.  

Nearly five years ago, Imperium, which has accumulated a portfolio of retail, office and apartment properties, branched out into buying industrial real estate and established its IG Logistics division to pursue deals. Outdoor storage and transportation-related properties located in urban markets with a high barrier to entry, where e-commerce is driving demand for industrial and last-mile real estate, is of particular focus.

The firm wants to buy more than $250 million of that property type in markets across the country including Philadelphia, Denver, Dallas, Savannah, South Florida, Central Florida, Nashville, Phoenix and the Baltimore-Washington area. 

“Our bet is on e-commerce and infill land that are irreplaceable and crucial to supply chain,” said Sam Schneider, managing partner at Imperium, which he formed a decade ago with Daniel Glaser. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Partnership buys 3 industrial buildings off I-95 in Philadelphia for $9.6M

A partnership involving a New York firm and a local investor has picked up three adjacent industrial properties totaling 218,961 square feet in Philadelphia for $9.6 million.

Bash Capital and West Chester-based investor Joseph A. Cunane bought 20 Jackson St., a 79,431 square-foot building; 38 Jackson St., a 76,620-square-foot building; and 21 Wolf St., a 62,910-square-foot building. The properties, all built around 1900 and located right off I-95, were a combined 44% occupied at the time of sale. The seller was a local partnership going under the name JP Vision LP, according to Philadelphia property records. 

This three-property acquisition is a strategic one for the partnership, which is targeting properties in a part of South Philadelphia that has Amazon and UPS distribution centers as well as big box retailers such as Lowe’s, Ikea and TJ Maxx. In late 2020, an entity affiliated with Bash and Cunane bought 22 Wolf St., a 55,000-square-foot building, for a little more than $4.8 million. 

The partnership also made a run at buying a 120,000-square-foot building on nearly 7 acres that is owned by the chemical company Inolex Group Inc. but didn’t get. It is located across from the partnership’s three recent acquisitions. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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New $42M warehouse at PhilaPort topped off

PhilaPort has topped off a $42 million, 201,621-square-foot distribution center that is under construction at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal. 

The milestone means the last piece of steel has been installed in the construction of the building under development at 455 Pattison Ave. in South Philadelphia. Haines & Kibblehouse, a Skippack construction company that has an office at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, is the general contractor. 

The warehouse will be occupied by Holt Logistics Corp. as part of the company’s lease at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal. The facility will have 32 loading docks and provide storage for dry cargo arriving at that terminal. PhilaPort also intends to leverage the facility to attract other business to the port. It is expected to be completed May 2022 and potentially create between 200 to 300 jobs.

A second phase totaling 217,000 square feet could eventually be built that would incorporate refrigerated warehousing.

In late 2016, the state announced it would invest more than $300 million in infrastructure, warehousing, and equipment at the port. The work aimed to double container capacity and position it for future growth at its Packer Avenue Marine Terminal, its automobile-handling operations, and the Tioga Marine Terminal.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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EQT Exeter picks up 8 buildings in Delaware County for $48.45M

EQT Exeter has picked up an eight-building industrial portfolio in Naamans Creek Business Center in Boothwyn for $48.45 million. 

The seller of the buildings, which total 265,757 square feet on 45 acres and were 100% leased at the time of sale. The properties are located off Route 322 and just a short distance from Interstate 95 and Philadelphia International Airport.

The buildings were assembled in three separate transactions that totaled around $28 million. The transaction with EQT Exeter highlights how the value of these flex and industrial buildings have grown over time. 

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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How fierce is demand for industrial properties? Prologis just paid $45M in bidding war for longtime parking lot

When InterPark Holdings put 4700 Island Ave. in Philadelphia up for sale, the company had decided the property’s future lay beyond serving as off-site parking for those flying in and out of Philadelphia International Airport.

The 271,000-square-foot building on nearly 19 acres had originally been developed decades ago as a refrigeration facility before InterPark operated it as a parking lot for more than 20 years.

“That business ran its course and that property ran its course,” said Andrew McLaughlin, senior vice president at InterPark. “The highest and best use was no longer parking.”

With that in mind, InterPark put 4700 Island on the market in April. The timing couldn’t have been better.

There were nearly 200 non-disclosure agreements signed in pursuit of the property and multiple rounds of bidding. In what McLaughlin described as an “unusually competitive process,” Prologis Inc., an industrial real estate behemoth, paid $45 million for the property.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Philly Industrial Vacancy Rate Drops to All-Time Low

Flush with cash from stimulus checks and record savings accrued while social distancing, U.S. households continue to spend at record levels on consumer goods heading into the second half of 2021.

This spending splurge is also driving voracious demand for logistics space, pushing Philadelphia’s industrial vacancy rate below 5% for the first time on record during the second quarter.

Philadelphia is also leading the U.S. in logistics property rent growth, with year-over-year rent gains now surpassing 10%. This is largely because of the market’s shortage of modern industrial space and Philly’s emergence as a key point for distributors delivering goods along the densely populated Interstate 95 corridor.

The volume of industrial space under construction has more than tripled in the Philadelphia area since the start of the pandemic, raising risks that supply eventually could overwhelm demand. But all signs suggest that leasing will be up to the task of filling the more than 20 million square feet of projects set to deliver by the end of 2022.

U.S. consumers haven’t even begun to draw down the record savings they’ve accrued over the past 18 months, meaning high levels of retail spending should keep distributors devouring industrial space well into next year.

*Article courtesy of Costar

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Gambone Group jettisons Montco industrial portfolio for more than $210M

Gambone Group has sold a portfolio of 43 of its industrial buildings in Montgomery County for a little more than $210 million, seizing on a market that is pricing warehouse and flex properties at unprecedented levels.

MRP Industrial was the buyer in the off-market transaction, according to multiple sources. The properties total 1.4 million square feet and give MRP Industrial a footprint in the western part of Montgomery County mainly along Route 422, Egypt Road and Germantown Pike in an area stretching from King of Prussia to Pottstown.

Efforts to reach representatives from Gambone and MRP Industrial were unsuccessful.

Established in 1958 by three brothers and based in East Norriton, Gambone built a portfolio totaling 3 million square feet that was focused on single-story industrial and flex buildings as well as multifamily, office and retail properties.

Baltimore-based MRP Industrial is an affiliate of MRP Realty. Over the last eight years, the firm has accumulated a portfolio of 43 industrial buildings totaling 18 million square feet between Allentown and Baltimore, according to its website. With the acquisition of the Gambone portfolio, the company has increased its footprint to nearly 90 properties. The company said it has the ability to develop another 14.8 million square feet of industrial space.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Uh-Oh Oreos: Nabisco Cookie Plant in NJ, One of Just Three in U.S., Is Shutting Down

 

For six decades, residents of one New Jersey town have enjoyed the sweet smell of fresh baked cookies. But on Friday, that’s all about to end.

The Nabisco plant in Fair Lawn is closing, and worse than the delightful smell leaving their lives, the shuttering plant is also leaving hundreds of people out of a job. The massive site on Route 208 has been a part of the landscape for as long as some folks can remember.

There are currently only three like the plant left in the U.S., after having more than a dozen churning out Oreos and Chips Ahoy! cookies. Some have spent more than half their lives working at the facility.

Jimmy Figs started on the Fig Newton line 48 years ago, and pins the move on “corporate greed.”

“They have two or three plants down in Mexico, and that’s not good, that’s taking away a lot of our work. Don’t let them bullcrap you, the work’s going down there,” Figs said.

Understandably, he wasn’t the only one bitter about the decision.

“If you can pay people $3 or $4 an hour to do what we’re doing, why wouldn’t you?” said Cheryl Leahy.

While losing the familiar neighbor will be painful for the town, the land won’t sit dormant for long, said Fair Lawn’s mayor.

“We’ve already heard from developers who want that property. It’s 39.7 acres that we’re going to keep industrial, and heard from a number of developers who are interested in distribution centers,” Mayor Kurt Peluso said, adding that one has pitched adding a Wegman’s at the location, which was his favorite so far.

Whatever comes in will bring jobs along with it, and a number of area businesses have offered to help. But the workers say it will never be the same.

“Nothing lasts forever, you gotta make use of what we have, appreciate what we have, thank God and make the best of every day,” said Calvert Smith, who is set to retire after working at the plant for 30 years.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Court Street Ventures Buys Erie Avenue Industrial Building, Will Raze a Portion for New Construction

A New Jersey investor has purchased 956 E. Erie Ave., a roughly 800,000-square-foot building on 19 acres in Northeast Philadelphia, with plans to tear down a portion of the existing structure and build 381,200 square feet of new warehouse space on speculation.

The goal is to seize on the continued demand for industrial space, particularly newly constructed, in Northeast Philadelphia and across the region.

Court Street Ventures bought the property, which takes up a city block, for an undisclosed price and the transaction had yet to be publicly recorded. The seller, Shift Capital, paid $3.47 million for the property in 2016.

Located across from the Philadelphia Coca-Cola bottling plant, the building was originally developed by what is now Crown Holdings and has been leased to various tenants over the years including Progress Lighting.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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Bimbo Bakeries USA Opens New Facility in Conshohocken to Distribute Entenmann’s, Other Brands

Bimbo Bakeries USA has completed a new 71,218 square-foot facility in Conshohocken that will serve as its main distribution center in the Mid-Atlantic for a dozen of the company’s brands such as Sara Lee and Arnold.

The building at 100 Academy Drive replaces its former distribution center at 1113 W. Ridge Pike, which was constructed in 1959 for Stroehmann. E. Kahn Development Co. bought that property last year for $6.85 million and plans to develop a distribution center for Amazon.

Bimbo declined to disclose the cost of the new project on Academy Drive. A total of 190 employees will work from the new building, which is owned by Bimbo. At one point, Tasty Baking Co. had owned the property, according to Montgomery County property records.

*Article courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal

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