"This is the first major industrial development we've done since the late 1980s," Gail O'Connor, vice president of industrial property management and leasing, tells GlobeSt.com. The project, though in its preliminary stages, is expected to break ground in the spring, with delivery of the first structure--containing several hundred thousand sf--is eing planned for fall 2001.

O'Connor says the company presently is busy securing permits for the development and working on site plans. Tentatively called "Scarbrough," the industrial park will be developed in three phases, with full buildout anticipated to take five years. To date, none of the buildings have been designed, says O'Connor, whose company will handle construction.

"It was a brilliant move by Trammell Crow," Joyce Jane Weedman, land specialist for NAI/Commercial Industrial Properties' Austin office, tells GlobeSt.com. "It's desperately needed in Austin and there couldn't be a better location for flex and distribution space in North Austin."