Dirt's Flying on $780,000 Sysco Food Services Project

FT. WORTH-Ground has broken on a $780,000 project for Sysco Food Services of Dallas Inc. in Ft. Worth’s Riverbend West Business Park. The park, primarily a hub for warehouse space, has been selected by the company for the new office because it is centrally located to its other Dallas operations, Trey Fricke, vice president of industrial and office leasing for Henry S. Miller Commercial, told GlobeSt.com. The undertaking will replace an existing office at 4700 Bryan Irving Ct. in west Ft. Worth, according to Fricke.

The ground-breaking at 7100 Jack Newell Blvd., which occurred Friday, coincides with the final signing of a 2.2-acre industrial buy by MLBS Development Ltd. to construct the 5,500-sf build-to-suit for Sysco. The limited partnership includes Dallas-based developer Charles Sutherland, whose crews have been working on two 60,000-sf spec buildings on property abutting the Sysco site.

About 75 acres remain in the 150-acre Riverbend park, which has been under development since the mid-1980s, James L. Wells of the James L. Wells Commercial Real Estate Services told GlobeSt.com. Wells represented, LRB Holdings Inc., which sold the land, and Fricke acted on behalf of the limited partnership.