‘BIGGEST EVER’
Another spec industrial park is started in Oklahoma City
“We are experiencing an unprecedented demand for industrial space from a variety of users.” Brett Price,
The digitally driven industrial building boom keeps booming, with another “biggest-ever” speculative warehouse park under way in Oklahoma City.
The development is in response to demand fueled by online shopping, which spiked early during the COVID-19 pandemic but has remained high since, e-commerce in general, and other drivers, including companies’ transportation logistics and shipping needs.
It’s billed as a “speculative” park because no tenants are signed. It is on offer to all potential users.
It’s a new project — with 1.7 million square feet of space, or about 35 football fields — but on a spot long important to the city’s industrial engine:
OKC Logistics Park, by Flint Development and marketed by local brokerage Newmark Robinson Park, will be at 2800 S Council Road in the heart of the city’s industrial sector, on part of what for years was a Bridgestone/Firestone Dayton Tire factory.
senior managing director of Newmark Robinson Park
An architectural drawing shows part of OKC Logistics Park, which developers say at 1.7 million square feet, will be the largest speculative industrial park in Oklahoma City. It is being built on the former longtime site of a Bridgestone-Firestone Dayton Tire factory.
Expansion at Will Rogers Business Park
The 1.7 million square feet of space for lease will be added to 1 million square feet already there — the reconfigured remains of the 2.4 millionsquare-foot factory, owned by Bulk Industrial, based in Prairie Village, Kansas.
Flint Development, based in the same suburb of Kansas City, Kansas, as Bulk Industrial, formed from the splitting of Big Industrial, according to Newmark Robinson Park.
Big Industrial bought the shuttered tire plant in 2007, divided it in two, named it Will Rogers Business Park, and offered it for lease to industrial us
ers.
“We are experiencing an unprecedented demand for industrial space from a variety of users,” said Brett Price, senior managing director of Newmark Robinson Park, who is marketing the new space with Kris Davis, senior vice president, and industrial adviser Karley Harper.
In the driver’s seat
It’s the second time in six months for a speculative industrial park billed as the biggest ever in Oklahoma City to be started. In October, Dallas-based Blue Road Investments started