AUSTIN-The state capital's R&D component has a worthy opponent in its L&D potential. And for commercial real estate professionals, logistics and distribution sites represent the next wave of development for Austin, say some around town.

At least that's what the home team is bracing for as the Austin-Bergstom International Airport expands and doubles its air cargo facilities. Meanwhile, there's land to be had in the immediate vicinity for L&D operators. “We're at ground zero,” Dean Janeff of NAI/Commercial Industrial Properties in Austin, explains to GlobeSt.com.

Janeff's interest lies in about 650 acres that he and Joyce Weedman, both NAI/CIP land specialists, are marketing for four landowners. In the past decade, NAI/CIP has brokered 1,727 acres in the area of the two-year-old airport. NAI/CIP brokers had sold another 700 acres in the 15 years prior.