The Bendetti Company buys Inland Empire industrial park for $12.3M

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., December 2, 2020 – JLL Capital Markets and The Bendetti Company announced today the acquisition of La Crosse Business Park, a six-building, multi-tenant flex industrial park totaling 112,259 square feet in the Inland Empire community of Colton, California. JLL arranged the $10.1 million acquisition financing for the park.

JLL worked on behalf of the borrower, The Bendetti Company, to place the two-year, floating-rate, non-recourse loan with Prime Finance.  

The 85-percent-leased La Crosse Business Park is home to 27 tenants and features clear heights ranging from 14 to 16 feet, large overhead roll-up doors and concrete tilt-up construction. Completed in 1989, the park had been previously owned and operated by the same individual for more than 20 years. The property is situated on 7.5 acres on five contiguous land parcels at 2273-2283 La Crosse Avenue in San Bernardino County adjacent to Interstate 215, which provides connectivity to Southern California’s main thoroughfares and arterials. The BNSF – San Bernardino intermodal yard is 7.5 miles from the park. 

The JLL Capital Markets team representing the borrower was led by Managing Director John Chun and Director Peter Thompson.

The park is in the Inland Empire Industrial market, which JLL Research reports in its Inland Empire Industrial Insight - Q3 2020 report set a new record for leasing activity in a single quarter, as demand from the ecommerce sector continued. JLL reports strong fundamentals and with a total vacancy of 4.7%, anticipates that over the next 12 to 18 months the Inland Empire will likely be

contending with a supply shortage as expansion plans among e-commerce focused users take up large blocks of space at an accelerated pace.

“We saw an opportunity to acquire an asset in our backyard that has not been available for decades and are excited to implement a business plan of substantial improvements that will benefit current and future tenant base,” said Aaron Weaver, the CFO of The Bendetti Company. “Even in the midst of a pandemic, leasing activity has been strong not only for this asset but our portfolio as a whole.”  

“The Bendetti Company has a strong track record of creating tremendous value for its investors, and their business plan to renovate the property and negotiate longer-term leases with tenants, coupled with the  strong fundamentals of the market, was a compelling financing opportunity for many capital providers,” Chun added.

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