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TEMPE, AZ-The firm didn't have to roam far to find the expansion space that it needed. The five-year lease covers 40,000 sf in a building just 150 yards away from its old address. Expansion room, freeway exposure and aggressive pricing close the deal.
DEDHAM, MA-The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority puts out a request for proposal for a developer to acquire and develop a 37-acre parcel that once served as a train yard on the Readville-Dedham line. The agency says that interest in the site is high.
LONDON-Kenmore has made its first purchases outside the UK, investing almost euro 30 million ($32 million) in standing industrial investments and a pre-let warehouse in the Ile de France Region. And it claims to have a pounds 100 million war chest to acquire a substantial French industrial portfolio.
VANCOUVER, WA-Currently located in half as much space in Clackamas, the custom injection molder inks a 10-year deal at the Port of Vancouver. The company expects to expand to 36,000-sf building within four years.
TUSTIN, CA-Hanover Financial Co. of Los Angeles and Laguna Niguel-based BR Birtcher Franklin LP acquire the 11-building, 157,000-sf Tustin Business Center from a private investment group.
ROUND ROCK, TX-Ace Southwest, a moving-and-storage company, is the largest space taker with 11,520 sf in the trio of industrial leases signed for two buildings in the 132-acre Chandler Creek Business Park.
HOUSTON-Emser Tile of Los Angeles makes a second expansion move in two years, signing for a 112,000-sf warehouse owned by Chicago-based First Industrial Realty Trust. The commercial tile supplier more than doubles its warehouse space with the new deal.
PHILADELPHIA-Although net absorption of industrial space remains negative, overall industrial vacancy in the four suburban counties is 10.5%, and direct vacancy is 9.6%, a range that has held for the past seven quarters.