Hexcel reportedly signed a long-term lease for a100,000-square-foot high-cube tilt-up industrial building that willinclude manufacturing, warehouse and office space. The leasereportedly includes expansion rights. Great Western Developmentexecutive Rich Montgomery declined to comment on the details butdid say construction has begun and the company is expected to beoperational at the new location in late 2009.

Great Western Development, a division of the Denver-based BroeGroup, is charged with developing 1,400 acres surrounding the GreatWestern Railway, which connects to both the Union Pacific andBurlington Northern railway systems and is owned by OmniTrax,another Broe Group affiliate. Other companies in the park includeEastman Kodak, Owen-Illinois, which is the largest manufacturer ofglass containers in the world, and Front Range Energy, astate-of-the art ethanol plant.

The new Hexcel facility will provide glass fiber "prepreg"material to the Vestas blade factory, a 250,000-square-footfacility that opened in March of this year. "Prepreg" means thecomposite fiber comes "pre-impregnated" with an amount of thematrix material used to bond them together and to other componentsduring manufacture.