Cincy Developers Beginning to Meet Demand

CINCINNATI—Construction of new industrial properties has begun again in the Cincinnati region and Douglas J. Swain of Opus Development Co. tells GlobeSt.com that the area is ready for it. “The market has been extremely tight down there and we’ve seen very little development until now.” As reported in GlobeSt.com, Opus has just started two speculative industrial buildings at Port Union Commerce Park in suburban Fairfield and West Chester that will total more than 800,000-square-feet of space. “There has not been a lot of interest from developers but there has certainly been demand.”

“The big challenge for developers is to find good sites,” Swain adds. The Cincinnati native knows the market well, and points out that a good portion of the metro area is across the Ohio River in Kentucky, a region with somewhat rough terrain that makes development difficult. And on the Ohio side, much of the land just north of the city is taken up by retail and residential use.