Whirlpool Amana Manufacturing Facility

Top1031 lists Whirlpool Amana Manufacturing Facility as active because the sponsor is still filing with the SEC. That does not confirm that interests remain available.

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Whirlpool Corporation. The Gazette reported that Whirlpool sold its Middle Amana manufacturing plant on October 26, 2020 for $92.7 million to WHRAMIA001 LLC and planned to keep operating it under a long-term sale-leaseback. The U.S. Department of Energy describes the site as a 43-acre operation making French door and column refrigerators. None of those sources states the lease term, rent, escalators, renewal rights or any go-dark, assignment or early-termination provisions, and the SEC Form D record does not describe the lease at all. Those economics and rights live in the Private Placement Memorandum, the offering's full disclosure document, and the lease itself.

They are tenant-side employment events, and no source reviewed reports a plant closure or a lease default. Manufacturing Dive reported on February 26, 2026 that Whirlpool planned to lay off 341 employees at Amana beginning March 9, 2026, following a July 2025 layoff of 250. KCRG reported on June 5, 2026 that second-shift production would end effective July 5, 2026, affecting 288 employees. The Wall Street Journal reported on August 4, 2026 that plant employment had fallen from about 3,000 to 650. On its first-quarter 2026 earnings call, reported by Fortune on August 29, 2026, Whirlpool described a multi-year modernization at Amana refocusing the site on bottom-mount refrigeration. Whether reduced operations trigger any lease right is a question for the lease and the PPM.

The public record reviewed does not establish one. The Form D offers equity and discloses no debt, and research through September 4, 2026 did not retrieve a mortgage, note or deed of trust recorded for the Trust; no lender, principal amount, interest rate or maturity is publicly established. Third-party marketplace summaries have described Blue Owl exchange DSTs as carrying no loan, which is a marketing description rather than loan documentation. Ask the sponsor for the loan documents, or their absence, and read the debt section of the PPM.

The public record does not show that. The Gazette reported that Whirlpool sold the Middle Amana plant in October 2020 to WHRAMIA001 LLC and planned to lease it back, so any purchase by this Trust — whose first sale to investors was March 27, 2025 — would have been from that later owner rather than from Whirlpool itself. Research through September 4, 2026 did not retrieve a deed, SEC exhibit or sponsor release tracing title into the Trust, and the Form D does not identify a property. Ask the sponsor for the closing statement, purchase price and title policy.

The asset record reports a potential Section 721, or UPREIT, exit — the property may eventually be contributed to a REIT operating partnership in exchange for units rather than sold for cash. Investors would then hold REIT units instead of an interest in real estate, which generally ends the ability to complete another 1031 exchange with that interest and changes how and when tax is triggered. It is a contemplated structure, not a completed transaction; the mechanics, timing and the sponsor's discretion sit in the PPM and the trust agreement.

The Form D reports the offering as made under Rule 506(b), an exemption that lets an issuer sell privately without registering with the SEC but bars general solicitation or advertising — the sponsor and its selling broker-dealers cannot cold-market it and must rely on pre-existing relationships. Buyers must be accredited investors, qualifying on income or net worth, and the filing reports a $250,000 minimum investment.