Huge New Amazon Shipping Hub On the Way in Southern Dallas
Amazon is building another huge shipping location in southern Dallas. The e-commerce giant has plans to occupy a more than 1 million-square-foot building located south of Interstate 20. The Southlink Logistics Center on Cleveland Road was built by Houston-based developer Hines.
Hines filed plans with the state to finish out the warehouse for the new tenant. Real estate brokers who are tracking the deal say the building will be used by Amazon. Amazon filed a building permit with the city of Dallas for the space on July 8. The more than $41 million project is set to start this month. Stantec Architecture is designing the new warehouse space. A similar size new Amazon shipping center in West Dallas has 1,500 workers.
The big distribution center had previously been planned as a warehouse and distribution center for California-based food industry service firm Zume Inc. But Zume didn’t move ahead with the location. Hines officials declined to comment about Amazon’s lease at the building. Hines built the project off Bonnie View Road as part of a planned larger industrial park.
Amazon is already North Texas’ largest warehouse building tenant. The digital retailer has more than 11 million square feet of distribution space in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and plans to add another 2.3 million square feet of local distribution space through the end of this year, according to a recent report from Costar.
So far this year, Amazon has added major North Texas shipping hubs in West Dallas, near DFW International Airport and in Southern Dallas County. More Amazon warehouse space is on the way in Forney east of Dallas.
Amazon has been ramping up its D-FW shipping operations as demand has grown with the pandemic. North Texas is one of the country’s fastest-growing industrial building markets, with about 15 million square feet of net leasing so far this year...
