Hillwood, developer of the 27,000-acre master-planned, mixed-use AllianceTexas development, is getting ready to build Alliance Westport 24, a 1.1 million-square-foot, Class A, speculative industrial building that will have direct access to FM-156 and the BNSF Railway Alliance Intermodal Facility, one of its largest intermodal hubs in the nation.
Alliance Westport 24 will break ground this month and is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2025.
“Over the past year, AllianceTexas has experienced unprecedented industrial demand as one of the best performing submarkets in the entire country by measure of net absorption—even outperforming the entire Chicago market by nearly 20%,” Hillwood SVP Reid Goetz said in a statement. “With Westport 24, Hillwood is doubling down on our industrial growth strategy within AllianceTexas and remains committed to attracting best-in-class logistics and manufacturing companies requiring facilities over 1 million square feet.”
Details on Westport 24
In the middle of it all: Rendering of the 1.1M-SF Alliance Westport 24 industrial building [Image: Hillwood]
Alliance Westport 24 will be a 1.1 million-square-foot, cross-dock facility designed with additional land to provide up to 704 onsite trailer parking spaces—the highest number available in the market—with the expansion of up to four total onsite truck courts, Hillwood said.
The company said roadway infrastructure improvements also are underway to optimize movement to and from the new facility via future Mobility Way.
Hillwood said that while benefiting from Denton County’s low-tax structure, the building will include a 40-foot minimum clear height, 620-foot building depth, 60-foot loading bays, on-site truck queuing, 190-foot truck courts and onsite infrastructure for future electric car and truck charging stations.
It will provide roughly 394 car parking spaces and roughly 227 trailer parking spaces with the initial shell building, expandable to about 564 car parking spaces and 704 trailer parking spaces.
Hillwood said that speculative tenant improvements will be constructed with the shell building, including roughly 2,700 square feet of main office space, LED warehouse lighting, 3,000 amps of power and 20 full dock packages. That will allow for customers to occupy and operate within the building immediately upon construction completion, Hillwood said.
Joining other recent Hillwood industrial projects
Hillwood said the start of Alliance Westport 24 follows its announcement in May of Alliance Westport 14, a 766,994-square-foot, Class A, speculative industrial building already under construction, scheduled for completion in June 2025.
The company said these projects are part of its plan to develop 3.5 million square feet of industrial facilities across AllianceTexas with next-generation capabilities to best suit current and prospective customers.
Hillwood said a key part of its AllianceTexas success strategy is that the company continually offers available, ready-to-occupy Class A speculative industrial options of all sizes for new and existing customers, including multiple 1 million-plus-square-foot facilities based on current market demand.
In May 2022, Hillwood leased its largest industrial speculative building to-date to Target Corp. The 1,240,584-square-foot facility lease to Target at Alliance Center East 1 was ranked the No. 1 largest industrial lease in the Dallas-Fort Worth Market in 2022, according to CoStar.
Hillwood also said it leased one of the submarket’s largest industrial speculative building projects, Alliance Westport 25, to Southwire, North America’s largest cable and wire producers, in July 2023. Initially, Alliance Westport 25 was launched as a 1,076,000-square-foot speculative building in August 2022. While the building was under construction, Hillwood said it executed a creative solution to expand the building to 1,180,550 square feet to meet Southwire’s needs while maintaining a schedule that still accommodated the company’s operational requirements.
Southwire celebrated its grand opening in August and now occupies the space.
Infrastructure and design
Hillwood said that Alliance Westport 24 will benefit from AllianceTexas’ robust transportation infrastructure platform, which includes the AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ), Perot Field Fort Worth Alliance Airport (AFW) and BNSF Alliance Intermodal Facility.
The MIZ offers comprehensive supply chain capabilities that provide mobility innovators with infrastructure and strategic partnerships to scale and commercialize new technologies and propel transformational mobility solutions. AllianceTexas’ supply chain network amenities include the FedEx Ground Hub, two UPS Ground Sort Hubs, the FedEx Express Southwest Regional Air Hub and the Amazon Air Regional Hub.
The new building is designed by RGA Architects, and Westwood is the civil engineering design firm. Hillwood Construction Services will serve as the general contractor for the project.
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