Atlanta-area flex park in last-mile location sells

ATLANTA, Feb. 28, 2022 – JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has closed the sale of Plaza 85 Business Park, a nine-building industrial, office and flex park totaling 191,526 square feet in the Atlanta-area community of Norcross, Georgia.

JLL worked on behalf of the seller, Atlanta-based Elmo Enterprises, LLC. Westmount Realty Capital, LLC, which is based in Dallas, Texas, purchased the park.

Plaza 85 Business Park offers its diverse roster of 43 tenants a versatile set of suites, clear heights ranging from 12 to 18 feet, both dock-high and drive-in doors and a combination of rear- and front-loading configurations. Since acquiring the property in a JLL-brokered transaction in 2020, the seller executed a property improvement plan that resulted in exterior and interior upgrades, new roofs on some buildings and executive suit build out.

The park is situated on 13.8 acres at 5970-6040 Unity Dr. in the Northeast Atlanta Industrial submarket, Atlanta’s most infill industrial submarket. Additionally, the park is directly on and has immediate access to Interstate 85, the industrial backbone of the Southeast, which provides connectivity to Atlanta’s five major thoroughfares. This critical, last-mile location also allows tenants to access more than 5 million people within a 60-minute drive and access to 80 percent of the U.S. population within a two-day drive.

“JLL was an essential partner both to help acquire the property 16 months ago and to sell it now,” said Elmo Enterprises Managing Partner Michael Godin, who directed the transaction for Elmo. “They were key to the success of this story.”

The JLL Capital Markets team representing the seller was led by Dennis Mitchell, Matt Wirth, Britton Burdette, Mitchell Townsend and Bo Osgood.

“Companies of all sizes are competing for locations that provide exceptional connectivity to I-285 and Atlanta’s high-income intown demographics,” Mitchell said. “Demand is driving higher market occupancy, fewer options for tenants and increasing rents. Plaza 85 provides this access and recent upgrades give the development a competitive edge.”

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