Liberty Property Trust Renews Leases with Five Tenants in Recently Acquired Industrial Buildings

By Gabriel Circiog, Associate Editor

Liberty Property Trust recently announced it has renewed leases with five tenants, totaling 277,495 square feet of industrial space.

All the tenants are located in buildings acquired when Liberty purchased a major industrial portfolio earlier this fall. As previously reported by Commercial Property Executive, Liberty Property Trust entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the operating partnership of Cabot Industrial Value Fund III in August.

“When we completed the purchase of Cabot Industrial Value Fund III in October, 3.2 million of the 23 million-square-foot portfolio was located in the greater Chicago market,” says Don Schoenheider, vice president and city manager for Liberty’s Illinois region. “This provided us with a terrific opportunity to expand our footprint. It’s been an exciting couple of months as we have gotten to know our newest tenants. Their renewals are very encouraging and we look forward to working with each for many years to come.”

Out of the five agreements the largest was with MSC Industrial Direct for 181,635 square feet in Hanover Park. The property is located close to the other two buildings Liberty purchased last month in DuPage County, 135-195 East Elk Trail and 515 Kehoe Boulevard.

“Part of our strategy has been to reach greater depth in DuPage County, as it is an excellent logistics market,” Schoenheider says. “With recent acquisitions we now have more than a dozen buildings there that broaden our property mix; a fact we see as an extremely important differentiator heading into 2014.”

The other four new leases renewed this month by Liberty include agreements with EZ Mailing Services Inc. in Bensenville; Tactical Lighting Systems in Addison; Tri-Fin LLC in Itasca, and Perfection Servo Hydraulics in Batavia.

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