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WILMER, TX-Jones Development Co., marking its fourth project inthe state, is ready to roll out its largest, a 520,000-sf specindustrial building. The undertaking is the opening act for the327-acre Sunridge Business Park, which has a front-row seat toUnion Pacific Railway's intermodal yard in Dallas County's southernsector.

The Kansas City, MO-based Jones Development, with backing fromthe Industrial Works Investment Fund, has been looking to breakinto the market for some time, says Roger Pavlovich, vice presidentand project executive for Dallas-based Cadence McShane Corp. Hetells GlobeSt.com that that 30.5-acre inroad is the first spec, butcertainly won't be the last for the developer's Dallasbreak-through. Sunridge, being developed by Cornell-Rader of FortWorth, is mapped out for eight industrial buildings with nearly 4.4million sf.