The Dallas/Fort Worth metro area has the country’s fastest-growing industrial building market with more than 50 million square feet of construction underway. Wilmer’s industrial construction growth is at the top of DFW metro area. Wilmer has only 5,000 citizens, but has nearly 20 million square feet of industrial warehouse space. And more is on the way.

Construction has officially kicked off on a new $76 million, two-building industrial development to the south of Dallas. Dallas-based Bandera Ventures has partnered with Invesco Real Estate to build two Class A facilities, with Building 1 spanning 746,420 square feet and Building 2 covering 744,452 square feet, in Wilmer.Located within Southport Logistics Center, the buildings will sit alongside I-45, near the Union Pacific Intermodal yard.  

GSR Andrade Architects has previously been listed as the design firm. A JLL team led by Kurt Griffin has been tapped to lease the property.

Delivery is slated for the third quarter of this year.