HOUSTON—Northwest Houston continues to outpace the rest of the city in industrial space at 146 million square feet and growing. The Northwest is the juggernaut of rail, port and petrochemicals due to population and transportation access. It has the largest population growth in the city of young, skilled blue and light-blue collars. And, the Northwest offers highways aplenty as a distribution hub for shipping to Texas and US markets.

“With new communities and steady population growth throughout Houston, retailers, food groups and consumer products companies, some of them new to Houston, are in the market for next-generation industrial space,” says Robert Clay, president of Clay Development & Construction.

To meet this demand, Clay Development & Construction has broken ground on the 293,280-square-foot Cutten Distribution Center I. The cross-dock distribution facility is located on 16.2 acres at 11833 Cutten Rd. in Northwest Houston.

“Driving demand for distribution space in this market are a heavy absorption of new construction, low vacancy, lack of developable land and users' criteria for the latest in speed-bay efficiency in building design,” Clay tells GlobeSt.com.

Situated on Cutten Road south of West Greens Road, Cutten Distribution Center I is the 15th building in Cutten Road Business Park, a 165-acre site acquired by Clay in 2008. With the scheduled completion of the new building in January 2018, the business park will be 100% developed.

“These users require column spacing, clear heights, trailer parking and other amenities that are built into Cutten Distribution Center I,” says Clay. “For distributors, the 2017 model is big enough for a variety of Mack trucks at 250,000 square feet or larger with 32-foot eaves, cross docks and 60-foot column spacing.”

Cutten Distribution Center I features 60-foot bays with 32-foot clear height and 50-by-52-foot column spacing. Trailer parking, early suppression fast response fire sprinkler system and regional water detention are also available.

Located at Tomball Parkway/Highway 249 and south of FM 1960, the business park is accessible to the Sam Houston Parkway/Beltway 8 and the surrounding Northwest Houston area. It is immediately east of Willowbrook Mall and minutes from Intercontinental Airport.

Other companies in the development include Ensinger, Archer Well, Phoenix Technology Services, ThyssenKrupp Materials NA, Kemper Valve & Fittings Corp., FMA, Adams Valves, Corrosion Materials, Hydraquip, Boots & Coots, PolySpec Thiokol, Hatfield & Co., Bohler Uddelholm/Sturdell Specialty, Prevost, LED-OEM, Polk Mechanical Company and Filtration Technology Corp./FTC.

Jim Foreman, Beau Kaleel and Allison Bergmann of Cushman & Wakefield are handling sales and leasing for Cutten Distribution Center I. Construction financing is by Frost Bank.

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Northwest Continues to Outpace in Industrial Space

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