Duke Realty Leases, Builds More Than 1M SF

PLAINFIELD, IN-Duke Realty Corp. has been busy with industrial work in the southwest Indianapolis market here, with a new 600,000-sf lease at the Plainfield Business Center, and a new 533,520-sf speculative distribution facility at Allpoints Midwest about a mile further north. Mark Hosfeld, VP of leasing for the company, tells GlobeSt.com that the firm is taking advantage of the companies’ need to have warehouses as close to the middle of the country as possible. “With these gas prices today, being in Indiana helps firms get closer to their clients with their products, allowing them to reduce operating costs,” he tells GlobeSt.com. “I’d say that of the 21 million sf of industrial space in the Indianapolis market, about 97% is occupied.”

Cross Roads Centers, a New Orleans-based third-party logistics provider, took the entire 600,000-sf Plainfield Building Three in the Plainfield Business Center off of Stafford Road, Hosfeld says. The 5-year-old building had been occupied by Bombay Furniture and Pepsico. However, Bombay went out of business and vacated the building in January, and Pepsico consolidated into another building, he says. The building has 36-foot clear heights, more than 50 dock doors and extra-wide column and bay spacing. “We were left by the end of June with a vacant building, but within 30 days we had the building fully leased again. That’s very unusual, typically you’ll get six-to-12 months of downtime on a building this size,” Hosfeld says. The lease rate in the area is about $3.25 to $3.50 per sf, he says.