(Crystal Proenza is associate editor of Real Estate Florida.)

MIAMI-Miami International Freight Solutions has signed a 75,000-sf lease at the largest vacant industrial space in the county, Centergate at Gratigny Business Park. MIFS has the option to expand that lease space up to 500,000 sf in the next few months, according to Jose I. Aguirre, chief operating officer of the logistics company.

Currently, MIFS is the only lease signed at the 978,000-sf industrial building. Owned by Higgins Development Partners, the 1.6-million-sf business park located in Miami's Airport North submarket is poised to announce more deals over the next few months.

"We are expecting almost the entire building to be occupied by the end of the year," says Jose I. Juncadella, principal of Coral Gables-based commercial brokerage firm Fairchild Partners Inc., who represented Higgins in the deal. Rental rates and other terms of the lease are not being disclosed.