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CHICAGO—Brennan Investment Group and Arch Street Capital have continued their partnership on acquiring single-tenant, net leased industrial properties with a 2.3-million-square-foot sale leaseback involving building materials supplier BlueLinx Corp. It follows January's acquisition of a 477,152-square-foot warehouse in Canton, GA, leased entirely to furniture retailer Belnick Corp.

Brennan did not disclose the acquisition price or the locations of the four properties that have been leased back to BlueLinx. However, industry data indicate four recent industrial transactions on facilities occupied by BlueLinx and for which Brennan was listed as the buyer, totaling approximately $108 million. They're located in Lawrenceville, GA; Frederick, MD; Bellingham, MA; and Butner, NC, with pricing per square foot ranging from $35 on the Butner location to $80 for the property in Bellingham.

“We acquired four strategically important facilities of BlueLinx, an established tenant with long-term commitment to the areas,” says Scott McKibben, CIO at Brennan. “This acquisition is consistent with our investment objective of producing stable, long-term cash flow for our investors.”

Adds Anup Patel, president and CIO at Greenwich, CT-based Arch Street, “Over the past seven years, Arch Street and Brennan have been very active investors in the single-tenant, net leased, industrial space and have developed an expertise for originating, evaluating, acquiring and financing single-tenant, net leased, industrial assets.” The partnership has acquired more than $1 billion of STNL industrial in that time, and is actively seeking further acquisition opportunities.

Subsequent to the Canton, GA purchase by Brennan and Arch Street, Brennan in late January acquired an 86-acre development site in Elk Grove, IL. Brennan formed a joint venture with Greenfield Partners to acquire, construct and lease the largest unimproved land site in the O'Hare industrial submarket. When fully developed, the project will be known as Elk Grove Technology Park, aimed at users in the emerging areas of e-commerce, digital manufacturing and data centers.

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Paul Bubny

Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.