HARIBO Grows Footprint at Wisconsin Industrial Park

January 23, 2024

The manufacturer first became a tenant at this property in 2021.

HSA Commercial Real Estate has signed a 447,216-square-foot lease with HARIBO of America at Bristol Highlands Commerce Center East, a three-building industrial campus in Bristol, Wis., totaling more than 1 million square feet. CBRE assisted the tenant, while Cushman & Wakefield negotiated on behalf of the landlord.

After more than two years of tenancy at the industrial park, HARIBO will relocate from the 157,656-square-foot Building 1 to the campus’ Building 3. The move-in is expected upon the completion of the facility’s interior buildout, slated for the second quarter of this year.

Completed in 2022, Building 3 features 36-foot clear heights, 73 truck docks, ESFR sprinklers and approximately 240 parking spaces. According to CommercialEdge data, back in 2021 CIBC Bank USA provided $18.1 million in construction financing for this development.

Located at 9403 136th Ave., in the Kenosha County submarket, the facility is 2 miles from HARIBO’s production plant in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. The property is also near the Wisconsin-Illinois border and less than 2 miles from Interstate 94, providing direct access to downtown Milwaukee, Wis., and downtown Chicago.

CBRE Senior Director Whit Heitman and Senior Vice President Sam Badger represented HARIBO in the full-building lease, while Cushman & Wakefield Senior Director Jeff Hoffman and Managing Director Eric Fischer worked on behalf of HSA.

Part of HSA’s Wisconsin portfolio

HSA broke ground on the 68-acre Bristol Highlands Commerce Center East in June 2020. Premier Design + Build Group served as general contractors and Partners in Design Architects as the project’s designer.

The industrial complex is close to HSA’s Bristol Highlands Commerce Center West, a 1.3 million-square-foot warehouse park covering 82 acres. The developer broke ground on the first 550,000-square-foot building in April 2022.

The firm’s Wisconsin portfolio also includes Highland Commerce Center of Somers, a 918,844-square-foot distribution center located at 2655 113th Ave in Kenosha. At the time of its groundbreaking, the development was one of the largest speculative industrial buildings in the state’s history.