Easton powers up industrial portfolio with $14M Hollywood truck yard

Doral-based real estate development and investment firm bought nearly 6-acre site near I-95

The Easton Group founder and CEO Ed Easton and the truck terminal at 3811 Pembroke Road in Hollywood (The Easton Group)
The Easton Group founder and CEO Ed Easton and the truck terminal at 3811 Pembroke Road in Hollywood (The Easton Group)

The Easton Group hitched a vacant truck yard in Hollywood to the company’s growing industrial portfolio.

An affiliate of the Doral-based commercial real estate development and investment firm paid $14.3 million for the 5.85-acre outdoor industrial site at 3811 Pembroke Road, according to records. The property includes a 29,897-square-foot truck terminal building completed in 1971.

C.J. Easton and David Wilf, both acquisition principals with The Easton Group, sourced the deal, according to a press release. Walter Byrd with Transwestern represented the seller, an affiliate of Chicago-based industrial real estate firm Dayton Street Partners.

The Dayton affiliate paid $7 million for the property in 2020, records show. It was previously leased to the now defunct Central Freight Lines, the release states.

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The Easton Group, a family-owned company led by founder and CEO Ed Easton, plans to make improvements to the truck yard and prepare the property for another tenant, the release states.

In a statement, C.J. Easton said The Easton Group is “very bullish on the industrial outdoor space,” noting its a niche sub-sector that “has become increasingly competitive over the last 12 months.”

In Riviera Beach, The Easton Group has submitted plans to the city for a truck terminal on a nearly 9-acre development site that the firm acquired in December, the press release states.

The Easton Group is also actively developing and buying industrial warehouses in Miami-Dade County. In February, the company and its partner LBA Logistics paid $29.4 million for a 26.4-acre property used as a truck yard in Hialeah. The joint venture submitted plans to the city of Hialeah to build two spec warehouses with a combined 462,954 square feet of space.

In neighboring Hialeah Gardens, The Easton Group is developing a 266,000-square-foot warehouse on an 8.4-acre site acquired for $8.2 million in 2020. And in the firm’s homebase of Doral, Easton also teamed up with LBA Logistics to purchase a 105,365-square-foot industrial building for $19.5 million in September.