Freezer warehouse building recently sold in Metro St. Louis, Missouri.

                             

Sale of a Refrigerated Warehouse Building in Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri.

There was the sale of a refrigerated warehouse building in the greater Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri area. The building sale transaction closed on June 24, 2016. The cooler and freezer warehouse building is located in the Illinois portion of the Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri area. The refrigerated warehouse building is at 5042 Route 162, Pontoon Beach, Illinois 62040.

The refrigerated warehouse building was a total of 18,324 square feet of refrigerated warehouse and office space. The total refrigerated warehouse area is 15,300 square feet or 83% of the building. The office area is 3,024 square feet or 16% of the building. The refrigerated warehouse space was capable of freezer warehouse storage temperatures. This freezer warehouse building has 33 foot high ceilings and 5 truck dock doors. The construction date was 2001. The building was in good overall condition. The freezer warehouse space and refrigerated dock has Freon refrigeration mechanical systems to provide refrigerated storage temperatures.

The time on market was 8 months. The Sale Price was $1,200,000 or $65.49 per square foot. The seller was Asset Management Development. The purchaser was Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation.

Jim Cronin is a refrigerated building real estate broker with Hawk Distribution Services LLC from St. Louis, Missouri. Jim was not involved in this real estate transaction.

Contact Jim Cronin at 314-994-0577 or e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com  www.refrigerated-buildings.com  or www.hawkds.com

St. Louis, Missouri Underground Refrigerated Warehouse Space conversions.

                              

The greater Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri has a number of underground warehouse developments. These developments typically are occupied by a public refrigerated warehousing company that provides freezer pallet storage warehouse services. Freezer pallet storage warehouse services is when a pallet of refrigerated food or frozen food products is stored on a month-to-month basis, with the handling provided by the public refrigerated warehouse company.

 

However, underground refrigerated warehouse for lease can be converted into refrigerated food processing space for lease. The major advantages are a lower than normal build out costs which results in a lower rental rate for food processing areas, either refrigerated or ambient temperature food production space. Sometimes the rental rate are up to 50% less than the lease rate for above ground facilities.

 

The operating costs associated with occupying food processing space in an underground warehouse facility are also substantially lower because of the insulation value of rock. Above ground facilities have 4 inches of urethane panel installation in its refrigerated processing areas, and underground facilities may have up to 100 feet of rock to provide its insulating values.

 

The occupancy costs are lower in underground refrigerated warehouse space is because of a lower property tax rate. Property taxes are initially based on construction costs of the building, and then in subsequent property tax assessment periods on the market value of the property. Underground warehouse space is more affordable to construct than above ground warehouse space, thus always maintaining a lower property tax structure.

 

The underground refrigerated warehouse development has to have the utility inner structure in place for the conversion of underground warehouse space into food processing space for lease.

 

Jim Cronin is a refrigerated building real estate broker from St. Louis, Missouri. Jim Cronin has either leased or sold 114 freezer or cooler buildings in his career. Contact Jim Cronin at 314-994-0577 or e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com   www.refrigerated-buildings.com

 

 

 

 

Freezer Warehouse Storage in refrigerated buildings in St. Louis, Missouri.

                                                                   
                             

Freezer  warehouse storage temperatures in refrigerated warehouse buildings in St. Louis, Missouri historically have been held that a -10°. Whenever a refrigerated food products or refrigerated ingredients for food products were kept in the freezer warehouse portion of the refrigerated building it was believed that a -10° storage temperature was required to maintain the quality and desirability of the refrigerated food. However there has been a trend in the Metropolitan St. Louis area and also refrigerated buildings in the Illinois portion to maintain 0° storage temperatures in the freezer warehouse space. This trend began about 7 years ago, about the time of the beginning of the most recent economic downturn. What appears to be is that the owner’s and the operator’s of  some of the refrigerated food companies, refrigerated cold storage warehouses, and refrigerated food processing companies reviewed all of their operations operating costs in order to maintain profit margins. Electrical usage is a significant operating cost of any refrigerated warehouse building. Perhaps over time the freezer storage temperatures were allowed to increase to what has become normally a 0° zero degrees storage temperature within the freezer portion of the refrigerated building.

Certain refrigerated food products require lower freezer storage temperatures. Food products with high sugar content require lower freezer storage temperatures, because the freezing temperature of sugar is lower than 32°, much like salt water requires lower than 32° to freeze solid. Ice cream products therefore require freezer storage temperatures normally at -15°. Also frozen dough bakery products sometimes have certain types of yeast that have exact freezer storage temperature specifications. The freezer storage temperature specifications have some relation to activating the yeast, with certain types of yeast having different temperature specifications for freezer warehouse storage.

Hawk Distribution Services, LLC www.hawkds.com has 28 years of experience of selling or leasing refrigerated buildings as a real estate broker. Please contact Jim Cronin at 314-994-0577 or e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com
    

 

 

Refrigerated warehouse space lease transaction – St. Louis County, Missouri.

                                                                                         

Baily International, Inc. leased 46,000 ft.² of refrigerated warehouse space at 498 Bussen Underground Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63129 from the Bussen Underground Warehouse. The refrigerated warehouse space located in St. Louis County, Missouri has 23,000 square feet of freezer warehouse space, and 10,800 square feet of cooler warehouse space, and 3000 square feet of USDA inspected refrigerated processing space. This freezer cooler warehouse has 6 truck dock doors. The Bussen Underground Warehouse originally constructed the freezer cooler space in 1997 for Kuna Foodservice. The Bussen Underground Warehouse is an underground industrial warehouse complex specializing in temperature controlled warehouse space for lease.



Jim Cronin is a refrigerated building real estate broker in St. Louis, Missouri. Phone 314-994-0577 e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com or www.refrigerated-buildings.com or www.hawkds.com

Underground Warehouse Space conversions.

The greater Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri has a number of underground warehouse developments. These developments typically are occupied by a refrigerated warehousing company that provides freezer warehouse services. Freezer warehouse services are where a pallet of refrigerated or frozen food products is stored on a month-to-month basis, with the handling provided by the refrigerated warehouse company for the other company.

However, underground warehouse for lease can be converted into refrigerated food processing space for lease. The major advantages are a lower than normal build out costs which results in a lower rental rate for food processing areas, either being refrigerated or ambient temperature food production space. Sometimes the rental rate is up to 50% less than the lease rate for above ground facilities. The operating costs associated with occupying food processing space in an underground warehouse facility are also substantially lower because of the insulation value of rock. Above ground facilities have 4 inches of urethane panel installation in its refrigerated processing areas, and underground facilities may have up to 100 feet of rock to provide its insulating values.

 The occupancy costs are lower in underground warehouse space is because of a lower property tax rate. Property taxes are initially based on construction costs of the building, and then in subsequent property tax assessment periods on the market value of the property. Underground warehouse space is more affordable to construct than above ground warehouse space, thus always maintaining a lower property tax structure.

The underground warehouse development has to have the utility inner structure in place for the conversion of warehouse space into food processing space for lease.

Jim Cronin is a refrigerated building real estate broker from St. Louis, Missouri at 314-994-0577 or e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com   www.refrigerated-buildings.com

Freezer Warehouse building floor heaving problems.

                                             Freezer Warehouse building floor heaving problems.

A freezer warehouse building floor this constructed to keep the moisture in the soil below the floor from freezing. Whenever water freezes it expands. When the large amount of soil beneath a freezer floor is frozen the cumulative effect of the moisture in the soil freezing exerts pressure on the floor from underneath. When that happens the freezer warehouse floor will begin to rise upward, and the more moisture there is in the soil, then the greater the expansion and the higher the floor will raise upward. As the freezer floor rises, cement begins to crack.

One of the reasons that freezer warehouse floor will heave is within the construction of the freezer warehouse building’s floor is a component called a moisture barrier. A moisture barrier is basically a large industrial plastic tarp that is laid down over the sand and gravel base. This moisture barrier keeps water from seeping into the cement. Any type of cement will absorb some water. This plastic tarp referred to as a "moisture barrier" in the refrigerated warehouse building construction trade keeps subsoil surface moisture away from the cement.

For a variety of reasons the moisture barrier sometimes fail allowing additional moisture to move upward towards the already frozen cement of the freezer floor, eventually the moisture will freeze and turn into ice and push upwards. Most moisture barriers fail from improper installation when the original freezer warehouse floor was poured. Almost always only a small portion of the freezer warehouse floor is affected, because only a portion of the moisture barrier has been penetrated by subsurface moisture. Signs that a freezer warehouse floor has failed moisture barrier are very subtle at first. Eventually as the floor raises and a dome shaped in the floor will become evident with cracks radiating outward. As pictured at the beginning of this article about freezer warehouse floors.

Jim Cronin is a refrigerated building real estate broker in St. Louis, Missouri.

Phone 314-994-0577 e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com or www.refrigerated-buildings.com

A refrigerated warehouse building transaction in St. Louis, Missouri

Lease Transaction Announcement.

John Morrell Food Group leased 7,000 ft.² of refrigerated warehouse space from Sunfarm Food Service, Inc at 84 Produce Row, St. Louis Missouri 6310. Hawk Distribution Services LLC represented both parties in the transaction. Jim Cronin specializes in refrigerated building real estate brokerage.

John Morrell Food Group’s package meat division of Armour-Eckrich Meats was in need of refrigerated warehouse space with cooler storage temperatures and refrigerated dock space to accommodate their route delivery trucks. The 84 Produce Row facility was formerly occupied by Sunfarm Food Service, Inc. which recently located to a larger facility leaving the refrigerated food facility available for lease. The 7000 ft.² of food facility has refrigerated and multiple refrigerated rooms, dry warehouse space and a mezzanine office area for support personnel. The refrigerated dock has 4 truck dock doors and ample parking for the Armour Eckrich Meats’ fleet of refrigerated route trucks.

84 Produce Row is located in the St. Louis Produce Market. Most major metropolitan areas have produce market areas. Most metro produce markets are cooperatives which provide administrative support for common area maintenance, sanitation, building maintenance, security and other amenities to their members. These things are attractive to small and medium sized foodservice distributors, which allow the managers to focus on their business operations.

Jim Cronin is a refrigerated building real estate broker in St. Louis, Missouri Phone of 314-994-0577
 e-mail J.Cronin@hawkds.com  or website of   www.refrigerated-buildings.com