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DALLAS-Cobalt Capital Partners has closed a $227-million equityfund seeded by its long-time partner and lead sponsor, USAA RealEstate Co. In all, seven institutional investors have taken a stakein the Cobalt Industrial REIT, a fixed fund designed to acquire$700 million of market-value, US-only properties in coremarkets.

The REIT has been launched with a six-million-sf portfolio ofmulti-tenant properties, valued at $250 million, in Atlanta,Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Southern New Jersey, Philadelphiaand Tampa. Lewis D. Friedland, managing partner of the Irving-basedCobalt Capital Partners, estimates about 40% of the equity has beenused to date, paired with debt from various lenders and, in somecases, loan assumptions for the portfolio-building push.

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