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Panattoni Growth Co. plans to interrupt floor on a 243,000-square-foot warehouse in Covington, Wash., this April. The corporate bought the 20.47-acre website on Dec. 30, for $12.2 million, based on the Puget Sound Enterprise Journal.
The speculative challenge, Covington 18, is located at 28009 Covington Method SE. Tenants will probably be in proximity to Route 18, with entry to Interstate 90 and the East Aspect.
The positioning has a site visitors rely of some 52,090 automobiles per day, based on CommercialEdge knowledge. The speculative constructing is within the Seattle market and Kent SeaTac submarket.
In ready remarks Travis Hale, accomplice at Panattoni, stated that the Covington asset is among the restricted parcels of land obtainable for industrial improvement within the space. It should compete for Sumner tenants on account of its location close to Kent Valley.
An workplace, 36-foot clear heights, 40 dock-high doorways, 255 automotive parking areas and 200 trailer parking spots are to be included within the Covington 18 challenge.
Building is anticipated to finish in late 2023.
KBC Advisors’ Matt Wooden and Kidder Matthews’ Todd Clarke and Ty Clarke are Covington 18’s brokers. The challenge is for lease and on the market, with a build-to-suit risk.
Seattle’s sturdy industrial market
Regardless of financial uncertainties and slowing capital funding, the Seattle-area industrial market fared properly all through final yr. Quarter three of 2022 noticed the twelfth consecutive quarter of optimistic absorption, with 1.6 million sq. ft, based on a current Newmark report. The emptiness price was 3.5 % as of the identical quarter, making the world enticing to builders and buyers.
Resulting from its optimistic fundamentals, the Seattle industrial market noticed excessive ranges of funding exercise by the top of 2022. Just lately, LaSalle Funding Administration bought a 473,000-square-foot distribution middle within the space for $120 million. The asset nearly doubled in gross sales worth because it final traded in 2017.
