CARROLLTON, TX-A food distributor that specializes in Hispanic items has signed a seven-year lease for 158,080 square feet. La Familia Distributing is relocating to 1810 Kelly Blvd. from Dallas Corporate Center where it occupied about 154,000 square feet.

La Familia Distributing’s existing lease, which it signed five years ago, was expiring. “Renewal was a consideration, but they also wanted to look at other options in the market,” says Brant Landry, a principal with Transwestern’s Dallas office. He represented La Familia Distributing in the transaction along with Sharon Morrison and Bill de la Chapelle. The landlord, Cobalt Industrial REIT, was represented by Ken Wesson of Lee & Associates’ Dallas office.

Landry tells GlobeSt. that La Familia Distributing wanted to increase its efficiencies through improved warehouse functionality and to decrease occupancy costs. “We had two really good options in the Coppell area and a couple of options in the Valwood submarket,” he says.