The two new buildings at 1200 S. Antrim Rd. here are planned for 400,000 sf and 600,000 sf, respectively. "We're designing the buildings to give the flexibility to accommodate a multi-tenanted scenario, but we certainly wouldn't mind a single-tenanted, campus-like location," Connelly tells GlobeSt.com. Warehouse/industrial, he adds, "is a market that has activity in both smaller tenants and big-box, as evinced by the one-million-sf lease renewal we just conducted."

Connelly says both buildings are envisioned to be cross-dock facilities, "with 36-foot clear height and all the modern amenities, and an abundant amount of trailer storage. On-site trailer storage is becoming a very important commodity to most users in that market.As part of the package we put together for World Kitchen, we were able to save them some operating costs by adding 75 trailer spaces to the site, in order to accommodate staging of product coming in and out."

These would be intended primarily as warehouse/distribution facilities, although 1200 S. Antrim formerly accommodated manufacturing for CorningWare before World Kitchen acquired the license to the brand from Corning Inc. "Given the economic realities, manufacturing in the area is not as prevalent as it had been," says Connelly. "However, given the amount of power we plan to bring into the buildings, along with the other amenities in the area such as good labor, manufacturing is something that could be accommodated here as well."