HOUSTON--After more than 100 years of operating a business on Washington Avenue, The Detering Co. has relocated to a new 107,000-square foot facility on a 19-acre site located at 6800 Helmers St., near Loop 610 North in Houston.

J. Michael “Mike” Boyd, principal of Boyd Commercial LLC/CORFAC International, represented The Detering Co. in a series of real estate transactions that facilitated the move. The deals, which took over two years to complete, included the sale of three parcels of land, the purchase of two parcels of land and a build-to-suit of an office and warehouse facility.

“Over the past five years, the Washington Avenue corridor has begun a transformation that is effectively changing an area of Houston that had gone through a period of decline into one big redevelopment zone,” Boyd told GlobeSt.com. “Washington Avenue runs parallel to the I-10 freeway and goes westerly toward the Memorial Park, connecting downtown Houston with some of our city's better residential neighborhoods. The location is ideal for many of the older industrial and retails sites to be redeveloped into residential, retail and other new commercial properties.”

The Detering Co., a building materials supply company, previously occupied 5.4 acres of land and 70,000 square feet at its former headquarters located at 3028 Washington Ave.

The company's new headquarters consists of a 16-acre site acquired from Quasar Land Ltd. and a three-acre site acquired from Irvington Holdings LLC. A new built-to-suit facility of approximately 107,000 square feet was recently completed and opened at the company's new headquarters. Detering is renovating a 25,000-square-foot building on the property that it plans to occupy.

“We did a five-year strategic plan in 2012 that called for some pretty aggressive growth goals and it became obvious that we would need a new location before the timeline of the strategic plan expired. When Mike Boyd identified a suitable replacement property – the 16-acre piece on Helmers, we set the expansion and relocation in motion,” Carl Detering Jr. said in a release.

Boyd said that Detering's former property was sold to residential builders who intend to redevelop the land into "mid-density housing" to take advantage of the land's proximity to downtown Houston and the desirability for many residents to live in or near downtown.