"We're building smaller product for smaller service-type businesses," James Maibach, president of Peyco Southwest Realty Inc., tells GlobeSt.com. "There's not much competition out there." The strategy targets users who most likely have customers in the immediate region's larger distribution structures, such as those at Hillwood's 15,000-acre AllianceTexas.

Key to Blue Mound's ability to turn out industrial product in quick fashion is the fact that it's not in any city limits and therefore not subject to lengthy and often times trying municipal processes, Maibach says. Blue Mound Center North's first phase will deliver in five months.

The building phases for the Blue Mound projects are being developed on roughly 10-acre tracts and built out with multiple structures. The parks are designed with concrete roads that are wide enough for tractor-trailers, a feature not commonly found at smaller industrial parks, says Maibach.