Blue Line's corporate team has been eyeing the 137,767-sfbuilding at 814 Avenue R in Grand Prairie since early 2003. Talkspicked up again about eight months ago as Blue Line's 50,000-sflease neared expiration at 2605 LBJ Freeway, J. Cannon Green withthe Arlington office for Dallas-based Trammell Crow Co. tellsGlobeSt.com.

Green says Blue Line shopped the market and came back to the SanDiego-headquartered Jack in the Box Inc.'s former space, emptiedabout a year ago for a build-to-suit in Mountain Creek in Dallas."There aren't a lot of buildings with freezers and coolers outthere," he says.

The freezer and cooler expansion will take another 90 days tocomplete. Green says Blue Line will take its keys Jan. 1 and leaserefrigerator space elsewhere until construction is done. "It wasmore complicated than a standard deal," he explains, "because ofthe tenant improvements going on." The front-load space was on themarket at $3.50 per sf net, with talks delivering a seven-year termand a couple bumps in the rent.