Business Facilities - November 2007 - (Page 26)

A TENNESSEE TRIFECTA The Metro Marina Building is the newest addition to Belz Enterprises’ Metro Industrial Park. nies. The city also is experiencing a retail explosion of nearly 1.5 million square feet along a key route, the Sam Ridley Parkway. Elsewhere in Rutherford County, the Murfreesboro Gateway (in Murfreesboro, TN) is the region’s hottest new master-planned development, offering office, corporate headquarters, residential, and retail space. Gateway construction is booming with a new Middle Tennessee Medical Center and nearly 300,000 square feet of Class A office space. An 811,000-square-foot lifestyle retail development, The Avenue Murfreesboro (reportedly the largest such development in the Southeast), just opened. Next door to this lifestyle mall, a new 80,000-square-foot conference center and 283-room Embassy Suites hotel is going up. A HOT BUILDING IN THE NATION’S DISTRIBUTION HUB Nestled in an easy-access, workfriendly Mississippi hamlet just across the state line from Tennessee, and only minutes from Memphis, is a Class A facility ideal for businesses ready to expand, relocate, or begin operations. The Metro Marina Building, the newest addition to Belz Enterprises’ Metro Industrial Park, is a 200,000-square-foot distribution warehouse that provides convenience, security, and accessibility for companies looking to compete in today’s global economy. The Metro Marina Building can accommodate spacing needs ranging from 25,000 to 200,000 square feet. The new cross-docking facility features up to 60 doors, 32-foot clear ceiling heights, 50-foot column spacing, and an ESFR fire suppression system. This is a build-to-suit facility that is fully equipped to meet any office, storage, or warehousing area needs. However, the amenities of the Metro Marina Building stretch far beyond the facility itself. Located in the Memphis suburb of Olive Branch, MS, this distribuThe Smyrna Airport Business Park is the area’s coolest business site; just ask Video Gaming Technology’s CEO Jon Yarbrough, who tion warehouse is easily moved his corporate headquarters there the year his company accessible to all types of ranked #1 on the Inc. 500. transportation—air, road, There’s also plenty of opportunity in river, and rail. The Metro Marina La Vergne, TN the county’s closest city Building is less than 30 minutes from to Nashville and home to Tennessee’s the world headquarters and internalargest industrial park. La Vergne is a tional superhub of shipping giant mecca of distribution centers and FedEx, and mere minutes from the industrial space, with available space Memphis International Airport, the in Centre Pointe, home to Hot Topic number-one air cargo airport in the and more than 500,000 square feet of world for the past seven years running. opportunity in warehouse/distribution, The Metro Marina Building is ideretail, and Class A spec office space. ally positioned for easy shipment of NOVEMBER 2007 warehouse goods and Internet order fulfillment. Located just off Interstates 55 and 40 (via Highways 78 and 385), the facility is within a day’s drive of two-thirds of the United States’ population. Located in the heart of the Delta, the facility is minutes away from the second largest inland port on the Mississippi River in Memphis, which handles more than 13 million tons of cargo annually. Over 113 freight trains pass through Memphis daily, making the surrounding area ideal for railroad transportation. The Metro Industrial Park, in which the Metro Marina Building is located, is a well-established distribution park with many Fortune 500 companies as occupants, including Trex Industries, Owens Corning, Mazda, and Sears. Within the Park is Olive Branch Airport, which has a 6,000-foot runway and is the second busiest general aviation airport in Mississippi. “We have seen rapid growth in Olive Branch because of its proximity to Memphis, which continues to be known as America’s Distribution Center,” says Andrew J. Groveman, senior vice president of Belz Enterprises. “The new facility at Metro allows us to provide high-quality space to new companies wanting to take advantage of the area’s location and other amenities.” For leasing information, call 901260-7300, or visit www.belz.com. A S P E C I A L A D V E RT I S I N G S E C T I O N O F B U S I N E S S FA C I L I T I E S 26 PHOTO CREDITS: RUTHERFORD COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE; BELZ ENTERPRISES http://www.belz.com

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