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Real Estate Investor Thompson Eyes $110M Industrial Buy

Irvine-based real estate investor Thompson National Properties LLC is looking to buy close to 1.4 million square feet of industrial properties from Storm Properties Inc. of Torrance, for a reported $110 million.

The deal is for 80% of Storm’s real estate portfolio, according to the Los Angeles Times. The developer said the sale’s proceeds would be used to help it diversify into other product types.

Officials for Thompson National said the deal hasn’t closed yet.

The deal would be the largest acquisition yet for Thomson National, an investment company started this year by Tony Thompson, the former chairman of Santa Ana-based Grubb & Ellis Co.

Storm’s industrial buildings are mostly in Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire. None of the properties are in Orange County.

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Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller
Mark is the former Editor-in-Chief and current Community Editor of the Orange County Business Journal, one of the premier regional business newspapers in the country. He’s the fifth person to hold the editor’s position in the paper’s long history. He oversees a staff of about 15 people. The OCBJ is considered a must-read for area business executives. The print edition of the paper is the primary source of local news for most of the Business Journal’s subscribers, which includes most of OC’s major corporate and community players. Mark’s been with the paper since 2005, and long served as the real estate reporter for the paper, breaking hundreds of commercial and residential real estate stories. He took on the editor’s position in 2018.

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