PepsiCo has locked in a lease for the giant warehouse at 950 N. I-45 in Hutchins, a more-than-1,000,000-square-foot facility that earlier this year was at the center of headlines over reports tying it to a possible ICE detention site. The deal flips one of North Texas’ most talked-about empty sheds into one of the region’s biggest industrial wins of the year.
According to CoStar News, PepsiCo signed one of North Texas’ largest industrial leases this year at the property, listed as 950 IH-45 in Hutchins. CoStar reports the agreement covers a building of more than one million square feet and marks a major logistics victory for the company in the Dallas market.
Property marketing materials on LoopNet show Building 1 at Majestic Realty’s PointSouth park offering 1,013,833 rentable square feet, 165 loading docks, 182 trailer stalls and 40-foot clear height. The listing notes the delivery was completed in late 2022 and that the building sits beside freight infrastructure serving the region’s busiest industrial corridors.
From Detention Talk To Distribution Hub
Earlier this year, reporting tied the same warehouse to plans for a roughly 9,500-bed Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention hub, a prospect that sparked local alarm and civic pushback. That reporting, which identified the 950 N. I-45 site and noted DCAD values and other public records, was detailed by D Magazine, which traced the building’s ownership and public-record footprint…