HOUSTON–Trammell Crow Co. and joint venture partner Clarion Partners have broken ground on Fallbrook Pines Business Park in northwest Houston. The first phase, scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2015, will include four concrete, tilt-wall office/warehouse buildings totaling 709,045 square feet, making Fallbrook Pines Business Park the largest industrial project under construction in the Houston region.

“What makes this development unique is that the northwest submarket is the largest and most diverse industrial submarket in the Houston region, and the lack of developable land sites in the core of the northwest submarket has limited the amount of new construction in the area,” Jeremy Garner, principal of Trammell Crow Co.'s Houston business unit, told GlobeSt.com. “This has pushed developers and tenants to sites on the periphery of the northwest submarket and into adjacent submarkets.”

The 127-acre business park is strategically located near the intersection of Beltway 8 and Hwy. 249 on Fallbrook Drive. Multiple options for access to and from Beltway 8 exist including Fallbrook Drive, Fairbanks North Houston Drive and Gessner Road.

Phase I will include two side-load buildings, one cross-dock building and one front-load building, all of which have been designed to accommodate fenced, secured truck courts. Designed by Powers Brown Architecture, the project will incorporate 28 to 32-foot clear heights, 52-foot-wide column spacing, extra trailer parking/outside storage, ample car parking, wide truck courts and ESFR sprinkler systems. The versatile project design targets a wide range of tenants including consumer-goods distributors, oil-field service companies and light manufacturers. The remaining 66 acres in the park are available for build-to-suit projects.

Rosenberger Construction is the general contractor for the project. Faron Wiley, first vice president, and Joseph Smith, first vice president with CBRE's Houston office, have been appointed leasing agents for the project.