Construction plans are in the city’s hands for what appears to be the more than $30 million BMW of North America LLC parts distribution center.
Houston Engineering Inc. and property owner Stone Mountain Industrial Park Inc. submitted the documents Friday for the almost 450,000-square-foot structure along Imeson Road on property next to Westside Industrial Park.
Called “Imeson Road Spec 4” on the plans, the building is listed as a speculative structure and not for a specific tenant.
BMW of North America announced in March it would develop a the new parts center at Westside Industrial Park to replace a smaller location it leases there, but it has not confirmed the Imeson Road structure is it.
If it isn’t, there are some striking coincidences.
First, drawings show the building at 448,043 square feet and expandable by 166,730 square feet, totaling 614,773 square feet.
That matches BMW’s announced plans for a 450,000-square-foot Regional Distribution Center.
Second, the warehouse is along Imeson Road. BMW said it was going into a new location at 600 Imeson Road.
BMW also said it was remaining at Westside Industrial Park. The Imeson Road property is next to the park and owned by the same company.
Atlanta-based Stone Mountain, through Imeson Industrial Park Land LLC, bought 115 acres along Imeson Road in November. The apparent BMW building is on the southern end of the property.
Of the site, about 80 acres can be developed. Four buildings are planned that total more than 1.3 million square feet of space.
Along with the Imeson Road Spec 4 building, Stone Mountain also filed plans last week for the Imeson Road Spec 1 building, at 191,360 square feet.
Two other “future” warehouses shown on documents are designed at almost 190,000 and 356,000 square feet.
BMW leases a 213,000-square-foot center within Westside Industrial Park. The building was developed in 2002 at 137,000 square feet and was expanded to 213,000 square feet in 2008. It was built to support the BMW and MINI dealerships in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina.
BMW’s other distribution centers are larger than the existing Westside building. The Germany-based carmaker’s U.S. operations are based in Woodcliff Lake, N.J.
A BMW spokesman has declined to comment about the construction plans, but said in March the company wanted to occupy the site in April 2017 and bring it to full operations the following October.
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