Ares Buys $120M South Florida Industrial Portfolio From Blackstone

Blackstone's South Florida wheeling and dealing isn't slowing down, as it has made its third major transaction in the past two weeks.

1900 NE 7th Ave. Port Everglades Distribution Center Dania Beach
1900 Ne Seventh Ave. In Dania Beach

Link Logistics, the asset management giant’s industrial arm, sold two warehouses in Miramar and another in Dania Beach to Ares Management for a combined $120.5M, according to property records provided by Vizzda.

Blackstone sold the 293K SF warehouse on 14 acres at 11500 Miramar Parkway for $69.4M and an 81K SF warehouse close by at 2650 SW 145th Ave. for $25.7M. Both of those facilities are roughly two decades old.

Ares also bought the Port Everglades Distribution Center in Dania Beach, which was built in 2022. The 82K SF building on 4 acres at 1900 NE Seventh Ave. sold for $25.4M.

Link Logistics and Blackstone didn't respond to Bisnow’s request for comment. Ares declined Bisnow’s request for comment.

The portfolio sale comes just a few months after Link Logistics executed one of South Florida's largest sales of 2024, selling a 26-property portfolio for $331.3M to Longpoint Partners.

Blackstone has been active in other asset classes locally as well. Last week, an entity tracing to Blackstone purchased the 359-unit Solea at Miami Lakes apartment complex in Hialeah from Greystar for $116M.

Also last week, Gramercy Property Trust, which Blackstone purchased in 2018, sold a 116K SF Hialeah office building for $20.5M.

Ares has made a major push into commercial real estate and acquired Singapore-based GLP Capital Partners' industrial asset manager for $3.7B in October. The deal made Ares the third-largest industrial landlord worldwide, the California-based private equity manager said at the time.

Continue reading this story with a free account

Log in or register
Sign up for more articles like this
Subscribe to Bisnow's South Florida Newsletters
Related Stories

Power Availability Becomes New Requirement For Shifting Bay Area Industrial Base

Coconut Grove Office Flipped For $15M Gain After One Year

EXCLUSIVE: Industrial Outdoor Storage Investor Continues Buying Spree In Metro Atlanta

Amazon Building 1.2M SF Distribution Facility In Aurora

Starwood, Realterm Fund Record Industrial Outdoor Storage Loan

Rexford To Sell $1.2B Industrial Portfolio As Part Of Plan To Increase Dispositions

CGI Merchant Had A-Rod's Backing And A $650M Fund. Then It Bought Trump's D.C. Hotel And It All Fell Apart

Fake-Plant Maker Shuttering Hialeah Warehouse, Moving To Lakeland

Big-Box Deals Push Chicago Industrial Leasing Into National Top 3

Fort Worth Approves Incentive Deal For Drone Developer Mach Industries

Ken Griffin Strikes $86M Palm Beach Real Estate Deal With Blackstone

DFW's Industrial Market Set Leasing Records During Q2