Land near Denver International Airport will soon be transformed into a 3.9 million-square-foot industrial park after it was purchased for $49.7 million.
The sale included 316 acres of undeveloped land at East 56th Avenue and Harvest Road in Aurora between Interstate 70 and the airport, according to a Thursday news release by CBRE.
The Opus Group, which describes itself as a family of commercial real estate development, construction and design companies, bought the site from a private seller. It plans to call the development project “Sun Empire,” with its first phase planned to begin later this year. “Our team first identified the potential of this site for industrial development two years ago,” said Todd Witty, senior vice president at CBRE, adding that they worked with Opus “to get the land under contract in a competitive timeframe.”
The project will consist of two buildings, with the next construction phases based upon tenant needs. In particular, Witty’s team is seeing activity from companies that use large-scale distribution, along with those working with manufacturing and food. “More and more companies, especially large e-commerce-related companies, are realizing their supply chains became too elongated, and now they are trying to get more inventory closer to the end user,” he said in an email.
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