Crystal Proenza is associate editor of Real Estate Florida.

POMPANO BEACH, FL-Atlanta-based industrial developer IDI has closed a 10-year lease with Whole Foods, an upscale supermarket specializing in natural and organic foods, at the Pompano Business Center here. The 71,754 sf space in Building M will serve as the new South Florida distribution center for the ever-expanding grocer starting June 1.

Larry Dinner, vice president of leasing at IDI's Fort Lauderdale office, represented his company in the deal, and Harry Tangalakis, senior vice president in the Fort Lauderdale office of CB Richard Ellis, represented Whole Foods. The new facility will serve all 14 existing Whole Foods stores throughout Florida and four new stores under development in Jacksonville, Bayhill, Naples and Wellington.

"This building, which is close to Interstate 95 and Florida's Turnpike, provides a great location for Whole Foods to serve its South Florida stores," Dinner says. "Whole Foods needed expanded distribution space, and Pompano Building M gives the company state-of-the-art space in a class-A facility."