Refrigerated Transfer Facility – construction specifications and building function.

Refrigerated Transfer Facility

There are certain types of refrigerated buildings that are constructed to allow for the transfer of refrigerated food products received from a regional food distribution centers that are to be transferred to delivery trucks that are domiciled in the metropolitan area that the refrigerated transfer facility is located in.

These refrigerated warehouse buildings have to have certain specifications built into their construction so to be able to service the inbound refrigerated and frozen food products and support of the numerous domiciled delivery trucks. The specifications are refrigerated docks, freezer and cooler warehouse storage areas, extra parking areas for the delivery trucks, warehouse office space and also office space to support sales personnel assigned to that metropolitan area.

The parking area has to provide for employee vehicle parking for office and warehouse personnel, parking for the delivery trucks, and maneuvering for tractor trailer traffic from the regional distribution center. The parking area also has to have electrical outlets for the refer units on the delivery trucks.

The refrigerated transfer facility has to be large enough to accommodate enough inventories to support the sales volume of the metropolitan area. The amount of refrigerated foods that need to be maintained on-site is established by the type of inventory turn required by the food product, and also the number of deliveries received from the regional distribution center. As for example, meat products could have a slower inventory turn as compared to dairy products. This means that the refrigerated transfer facility for meat products would need larger freezer warehouse space or cooler space because of the longer shelf life and slower inventory turn when compared to dairy products which have a 1 to 2 day inventory turn because of the relatively short shelf life.

Refrigerated transfer facilities need to be located such that the inbound tractor trailer traffic from the regional food distribution building does not become involved in the metropolitan's area traffic congestion. Also the location of the refrigerated transfer facility from the regional food distribution center would best be situated so that the tractor trailers from the distribution center can deliver food products to the refrigerated transfer building and returned to their distribution center in the same day.

The Metropolitan St. Louis area currently has a refrigerated transfer facility available for sale or for lease. The 25,000 square-foot facility is situated on 4 acres of land and near a major interstate. The refrigerated building has freezer space and cooler space and a refrigerated dock. The facility is located in Warrenton, Missouri allowing access to the St. Louis, Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri markets. To learn more about this refrigerated transfer facility contact Jim Cronin at Hawk Distribution Services, LLC, refrigerated building real estate broker at 314-994-0577 or e-mail of j.cronin@hawkds.com.

For other refrigerated buildings available for sale or for lease in the Midwest go to www.hawkds.com

Refrigerated Building Sale Price

Refrigerated Building Sale Price

What would my company’s refrigerated warehouse building sale price be if it was offered For Sale? What does the freezer warehouse space and the cooler warehouse space in our present refrigerated warehouse building add to the selling price of a refrigerated warehouse building?

These are important questions to be answered when your company is contemplating purchasing a refrigerated building. How old is the building, what are the ceiling heights in the warehouse area and how many dock doors does the building have? These 3 construction questions about a refrigerated building are important on how efficient the building will be when occupied and these questions will be important whenever your company decides to resell the building.

Where is the location of the building? This is important because there is a preference for refrigerated food type buildings to be close to interstate highways, and is located towards the center of the town or metro St Louis area so that transportation costs can be to a minimum.

How much of the building floor space is refrigerated? In the warehouse area how much floor space is capable of freezer storage temperatures, or is capable of cooler storage temperatures? Generally the higher the percentage of the building that is freezer space and cooler space, then the building will be worth more when you go to sell the facility.

How much land is your building located on? The amount of land is important in determining the sale price of a refrigerated warehouse building. There are certain "building to land" ratios that generally define how large the site should be. However each parcel of land is uniquely shaped, so special attention has to be given to how the building is situated so that the warehouse loading dock areas portion flows efficiently and the employee parking is sufficient.

All of these seem simple, but important questions. Hawk Distribution Services, LLC specializes in selling refrigerated warehouse buildings in the St. Louis, Missouri area, as well as the Kansas City metropolitan area.

To view freezer warehouse buildings available for sale or for lease in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area go to www.hawkds.com

  

For refrigerated buildings with freezer space in St. Louis, Missouri call Jim Cronin, a real estate broker, at 314-994-0577 or email Jim Cronin at J.Cronin@HawkDS.com    

Freezer Space in Kansas City, Missouri

Freezer space in Kansas City, Missouri.

Freezer warehouse space in Kansas City, Missouri is a hard thing to find whether you want to purchase a freezer warehouse building, or lease a freezer warehouse building or to even have  mnthly storage for freezer pallets.

Freezer warehouse space in refrigerated  refrigerated buildings for sale in the Kansas City, Missouri Metropolitan area include a 25,000 ft.² refrigerated warehouse facility situated on 2 acres of land in Kansas City, Kansas.

There is also 5,600 ft.² food processing building space that includes 150 ft.² of freezer space located 3001 Mercier Street, Kansas City Missouri 64108 that is available for purchase or lease. This building is currently being operated as a baking building. The building was also used before as a building for a vending machine company.

Storage of freezer pallets is when another company has excessive freezer space and then will offer to store your freezer pallets on an as needed basis. The cost for having your freezer pallets stored in someone else's freezer space in Kansas City, Missouri usually includes handling charges and also monthly storage charge.

When you are looking for freezer space in Kansas City how do you know which is the best option for you? Hawk Distribution Services, LLC works with only freezer buildings. The specialization of working with freezer space in the Kansas City, Missouri marketplace continuously on a day-to-day basis provides some of the best knowledge available of locations that have freezer space available in Kansas City, Missouri.

To view freezer warehouse buildings available for sale or for lease in the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area go to www.hawkds.com

For refrigerated buildings with freezer space in Kansas City, Missouri call Phil Pisciotta, a real estate agent, at 816-510-2060 or email Phil Pisciotta at P.Pisciotta@HawkDS.com

Refrigerated Cold Storage Buildings in St. Louis, Missouri.

                                           
                                                   Cold Storage Buildings in St. Louis, Missouri.


Whenever a company starts looking for cold storage building(refrigerated warehouse building) in St. Louis, Missouri there seems to be some confusion as to whether or not the cold storage building is for sale or if the cold storage building is for lease. To understand why there is this confusion there needs to be an understanding of the different type of buildings that have freezer space and cooler warehouse space.

There are three different types of buildings that have freezer space and that have cooler space. They are called refrigerated warehouse buildings, refrigerated food processing plants, and cold storage buildings. Although all 3 buildings have floor space areas that have different temperatures, each building in itself have completely different types of businesses.

The cooler warehouse space is anywhere in the refrigerated or cold building where the temperature ranges between + 45° degrees Fahrenheit and +32° degrees Fahrenheit. The freezer warehouse space is anywhere in the building where the temperature ranges from 32° degrees Fahrenheit to as low as a -20° degrees Fahrenheit.

The first type of building that has freezer space or cooler space is a refrigerated warehouse building. These companies most of the times are referred to as "Foodservice Distributors" This is a building where refrigerated food products or refrigerated food ingredients are stored. These buildings usually are completely pallet racked. The refrigerated food products or the food ingredients that require refrigeration will be sold or distributed from these buildings. Most of the time these freezer and cooler warehouse buildings do not have floor drains.

The second type of building that has freezer space or has cooler space is a refrigerated food processing plant. These companies most of the time are referred to as "Refrigerated Food Processors". A refrigerated food processing plant will have areas of the floor space that will be cooler space with temperatures between +45° to as low as +32°. This will be the area where the food is prepared, or the food is manufactured, or where the food is packaged. Such items include meat products, poultry products, vegetable and fruit processing and precut operations as well as such food processing operations as ingredient manufacturing. These buildings may have their own freezer space or cooler space to store the refrigerated food products when they are finished. Most of the time the cooler floor space areas will have floor drains.

The third type building that has freezer space or has cooler space is occupied by a company that stores other company’s excess, seasonal or overflow inventory. These companies are called a "Refrigerated Warehouse Company". This is a business that will take on by a pallet by pallet bases other companies food products or food ingredients that require cooler storage or freezer storage. This creates a bailment situation between the two companies. Then the refrigerated warehouse company returns those refrigerated pallets or frozen pallets whenever the customer needs the refrigerated product back. The refrigerated warehouse company usually has two types of customers. They are Foodservice Distributors or Refrigerated Food Processors.

If you would like more information about buildings with cooler space in St. Louis or with freezer space in St. Louis ,Missouri contact Hawk Distribution Services, LLC (licensed real estate broker) at 314-994-0577 or e-mail Jim Cronin at J.Cronin@hawkds.com.

To view available buildings with freezer space or cooler space in the St. Louis, Missouri area go to www.hawkds.com



Freezer space in St. Louis, Missouri

                   Freezer space in St. Louis, Missouri.                            

Freezer space in St. Louis, Missouri is a hard thing to locate if you want to purchase a freezer building, lease a freezer building or to even find storage for freezer pallets.

Freezer space in buildings for sale in St. Louis Missouri Metropolitan area include an 18,000 ft.² refrigerated warehouse facility situated on 4 acres of land in Warrenton, Missouri.

There is also 25,000 ft.² of refrigerated warehouse space that includes 7,250 ft.² of freezer space located Warren County that is available on for lease or for sale.

Storage of freezer pallets is when another company has excessive freezer space and then will offer to store your freezer pallets on an as needed basis.These companies are called refrigerated warehouse companies. The cost for having your freezer pallets stored in someone else's freezer space usually includes handling charges and also a monthly storage charge.

When you are looking for freezer space in St. Louis, Missouri how do you know which is the best option for you? Hawk Distribution Services, LLC works with only freezer buildings. The specialization of working with freezer space in the St. Louis, Missouri marketplace continuously on a day-to-day basis provides some of the best knowledge available of locations that have freezer space available.

To view freezer warehouse buildings available for sale or lease in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area go to www.hawkds.com

  

For refrigerated buildings with freezer space in St. Louis, Missouri call Jim Cronin, a real estate broker, at 314-994-0577 or email Jim Cronin at J.Cronin@HawkDS.com

    



Understanding Refrigerated Warehouse Building real estate brokerage services.

Refrigerated Warehouse Building Real Estate Brokers.

Selling, leasing or searching for an existing refrigerated warehouse or refrigerated food processing plant can be both difficult and time-consuming project. The search for a freezer warehouse building for sale or for an existing refrigerated facility or the selling or leasing of any refrigerated building requires expertise and marketing experience in industrial real estate. This is one of the reason that companies employ refrigerated building real estate brokers.

When looking for an existing freezer or cooler warehouse building to lease or for sale it is important to understand what current sale prices or lease rental rates are for industrial refrigerated real estate. Questions such as; What are recent sale transactions in the Midwest? Price negotiations for the refrigerated or temperature controlled warehouse buildings or food processing plant that your company wants to purchase or lease? How do I know if I'm paying too much for this freezer cooler facility? What are lease rental rates for a refrigerated building with both refrigerated warehouse space and refrigerated processing areas?

Hawk Distribution Services, LLC has 26 years of experience as refrigerated building real estate brokers. Please contact Jim Cronin at 314-994-0577 or e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com
to discuss your company's refrigerated real estate needs.

To view Hawk Distribution Services, LLC’ refrigerated buildings available for sale or for lease in St. Louis, Missouri and also in Kansas City, Missouri and the Midwest connect to www.hawkds.com

Subleasing of a refrigerated warehouse building in the Midwest.

                   Subleasing of a refrigerated warehouse with refrigerated food processing space.


Subleasing is a unique type of real estate listing of refrigerated real estate. This type of transaction can present a number of challenges when compared to leasing other types of refrigeratedwarehouse building, whether it has cooler warehouse or freezer warehouse or refrigerated processing space.

Some of the leasing challenges are that the term that the master refrigerated tenant has remaining in their lease on the refrigerated building that that they are offering for sublease. This is a fixed number of years of which the potential sub refrigerated tenant has to accept. The landlord is not necessarily motivated to reduce the term the landlord has with the master tenant, leaving the subtenant with a lease termination date that usually doesn't coincide with their business plans. Another problem is that the master tenant is not inclined to spend any more money on the space because they are no longer have any use the refrigerated warehouse space. The landlord of the refrigerated building already has commitments for rent payments with the tenant and therefore is not motivated to provide inducements or any improvements to the subtenant to occupy the space, all this leaves subtenant to cover any improvements or modifications to the refrigerated building to suit their frozen or refrigerated food business. The last problem subleasing of refrigerated space is the landlord has to approve the refrigerated subtenant. With that approval process the landlord usually will not offer any lease options on the space is being subleased, then leaving the subtenant’s negotiating position marginal at best at the end of the sublease term.

St. Louis's first refrigerated warehouse space available for sublease in the last 25 years is located at 498 Bussen Underground Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63129. The refrigeratedwarehouse facility located in St. Louis County has refrigerated warehouse space and refrigerated food processing space. The total facility is 46,600 ft.² and located only 1/2 mile from an interstate highway in St. Louis County, Missouri. The refrigerated processing space was USDA inspected and also can be expanded.

The St. Louis marketplace of refrigerated is very tight with few large refrigerated building available. This sublease opportunity will probably experience a brief period of time on the market. To learn more about space contact Jim Cronin at 314-994-0577 or e-mail of j.cronin@hawkds.com

To learn more about other refrigerated warehouse or food processing buildings available in St. Louis, Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri or throughout the Midwest go to www.HawkDS.com



Small Refrigerated Warehouse Buildings

Smaller Refrigerated Buildings selling rapidly in the Midwest.

There appears to be an interesting development regarding the time on market time that is required to sell or lease smaller refrigerated buildings. Over the last 3 or 4 years commercial real estate sale and leasing activities have been slower than usual normal commercial real estate market activities. Industrial real estate is one of the several categories within commercial real estate. Refrigerated buildings are a niche within industrial real estate. All niche real estate, no matter what the niche type, will require a longer length of time on the market before a sale or lease. The length of time required to sell or to re-lease a refrigerated building has always been much longer than the non refrigerated dry warehouse or manufacturing facility.

A refrigerated building is either a warehouse facility or a food processing plant. These facilities have either cooler or freezer warehouse space in the refrigerated floor space. A refrigerated building has to have at least 15% of the building’s floor space being either capable of cooler or freezer operating temperatures. Further, the definition of what a small refrigerated warehouse what a large refrigerated warehouse is has never been clearly defined. Generally it is held that a facility that has refrigeration capacities of over 15% and is less than 25,000 ft.² is considered a smaller refrigerated building. There seems to be a many smaller refrigerated buildings are 15,000 ft.² in total square footage.

The amount of time to sell any refrigerated building was always dependent on the demand at any one time for freezer or cooler space in the marketplace in which the refrigerated building is located. The definition of marketplace usually varies primarily according to the population density. Demand for a refrigerated building is also affected the distance it is from the refrigerated building customer base. With all these things taken together, most of the time in a normal marketplace in the Metropolitan area the average time on market was about 18 months, plus or minus, 6 months.

The smaller refrigerated building, either refrigerated warehouse or a refrigerated food processing plant has been selling within Metropolitan areas within 4 months of being placed on the market.

Hawk Distribution Services, LLC has over 25 years experience real estate brokerage of refrigerated warehouse building or refrigerated food processing plants throughout the Midwest.

  
To view refrigerated buildings available for sale or lease in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, or to view refrigerated buildings for sale or lease in the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area go to www.hawkds.com

   For St. Louis refrigerated buildings call Jim Cronin at 314-994-0577 or email Jim Cronin at J.Cronin@HawkDS.com
    For Kansas City refrigerated buildings call Phil Pisciotta at 816-510-2060 or email Phil Pisciotta P.Pisciotta@HawkDS.com