340 Stiles Street, Linden, NJ 340 Stiles Street, Linden, NJ

LINDEN, NJ—Seagis Property Group has acquired a 504,000 square foot industrial property at 340 Stiles Street in Linden, NJ from 500 West Edgar. Also known as the Cantor Distribution Plaza, 550 W. Edgar Road, the property sold for $42.75 million, or $85 per square foot, according to Real Capital Analytics, a proprietary research database firm.

Seagis will undertake a multi-million-dollar renovation at 340 Stiles Street, scheduled for completion in spring 2017. Planned improvements include roofing, new entrances, new building facades and windows, modernization of the building’s 98 loading doors and five drive-in dock doors, as well as the installation of T5 lighting.

Seagis will regrade and pave nearly 13 acres of parking, creating abundant new trailer and automobile parking spaces, and upgrade the landscaping and fencing throughout the site. The property has CSX rail service, which can be reactivated for a specific user.

Chuck Fern, based in Cushman & Wakefield’s Iselin, NJ, office, represented the seller and procured the buyer. Seagis subsequently appointed his team as leasing agent for the port-market property.

“At completion, 340 Stiles Street will be elevated to a truly class A facility,” says Fern, who is heading the leasing agency with Cushman & Wakefield’s Jason Barton and Gary Casaletto. “Given the property’s outstanding location, we anticipate strong interest and a fast lease-up by users seeking quality accommodations close to Port Newark-Elizabeth and major regional thoroughfares.”

The property is divisible to 30,000 square feet, but can also be made available in its entirety for a customer looking to establish a unique campus environment with ready access to the Ports and population centers of Northern New Jersey and Manhattan.

The property, which is located directly on Route 1/9, offers potential rail access. It is just a 10-minute ride from the port and the Goethals Bridge, and a 20-minute ride from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. “Linden is a fantastic location – its accessibility and low taxes have always made it desirable for industrial space users,” Fern says. “The market is also extremely low on supply, which positions this property as one of the region’s most attractive large-block opportunities.”