HOUSTON – Avera Cos., a Texas-based real estate development firm, has broken ground on a massive distribution center at the Port of Houston.
The project, called 225 RailPort, is located on 47 acres at Beltway 8 and Highway 225, will be one of the largest rail-served properties in southeast Texas.
Frontier Logistics, which services the plastics industry, will occupy the 600,000-sf facility when the building is completed in early 2015.
The building, designed by Houston-based Munson Kennedy Partnership, is specifically engineered for rail-service capabilities and is served by PTRA (Port Terminal Railroad Association). The project has extensive rail access and a large rail yard with the capacity to handle 200 rail cars.
The Port of Houston area is one of the world’s largest petrochemical complexes and companies there produce plastic pellets which are shipped around the world for manufacturing all kinds of plastic products.
John Nicholson, Senior Managing Director of Cassidy Turley, represented Frontier Logistics in its lease for the entire 225 RailPort development in Houston’s Port submarket.
Trey Odom is president of Avera, a commercial development, construction and investment firm, which has a number of developments under development including the Century Plaza Distribution Center at Interstate 45 and Airtex in Houston, in addition to projects in the Permian Basin in West Texas and in the Eagle Ford Shale south of San Antonio.