A massive new industrial building is on deck for the former Thomson Reuters campus in Eagan, and the future occupant is staying very quiet about it. Ryan Companies has filed plans for a roughly 337,000-square-foot industrial structure on the property that would serve an unnamed tenant. The new building would sit on the redeveloped site between a large logistics parcel and a data-center project that is being repurposed on the same campus.
According to the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal, the filing spells out the 337,000-square-foot figure but does not identify the end user. That outlet reports Ryan has offered only limited public details on what will go inside the building, and the tenant remains unnamed in the city paperwork.
Site, Scale and Ryan’s Master Plan
Ryan finalized purchase of roughly 179 acres of the former Thomson Reuters campus at 610 Opperman Drive and has been moving ahead with a mixed industrial and residential reuse of the property, according to the Star Tribune. On its project page, the developer lays out a long-term redevelopment that combines multilevel industrial buildings with townhomes, park space and other supporting infrastructure.
Ryan’s materials show the east side of the site reserved for logistics and industrial users, while the western portion is aimed at housing and open space. The new 337,000-square-foot building slots into that industrial east side, helping to shape what could become a dense employment and warehouse hub.
Amazon Next Door and a Growing Logistics Cluster
One large parcel on the campus was sold off separately to Amazon, which paid roughly $52.5 million for land where it has considered a multi-story distribution project that could reach into the millions of square feet, according to Finance & Commerce. The new Ryan building would land between that Amazon-controlled parcel and the portion of the campus that holds the existing data-center footprint…