Kansas City-based real estate development company Hunt Midwest and Marshall Planing Mill, a subsidiary of the Marshall Realty Company, are partnering to develop 300 acres of commercial and industrial space adjacent to Interstate-64 in Simpsonville, Kentucky.
The Simpsonville 64 Logistics Park will include more than 3.4 million total square feet of Class-A rear-load and cross-dock industrial facilities on Highway 1848/Buck Creek Road at Exit 28 off Interstate 64 in Shelby County. Leasing and build-to-suit options are available for industrial users of up to 1.5 million square feet, and commercial and retail opportunities are available along the frontage of Buck Creek Road.
This new logistics park is one of the most strategic tracts slated for industrial development in the Louisville submarket. Simpsonville 64 Logistics Park’s advantageous location between Interstates 65 and 75 puts the park within a day’s drive of 50 percent of the U.S. population and provides convenient access to the nearby UPS Worldport, FedEx Ground, and Amazon Air Hub facilities for fast, efficient access to the rest of the country.
Simpsonville 64 Logistics Park also is centrally located near the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant, Ford Kentucky Assembly Plant, and GE Appliance Park in Louisville and Toyota’s Georgetown Assembly Plant.
Construction on the first two buildings at the park is scheduled to begin with site preparation and grading in the fourth quarter of 2023 and vertical construction in early 2024.
The planned rear-load Building I will feature 270,400 square feet, 210 parking spaces, and 80 tractor trailer spaces. A larger cross-dock Building II will feature 486,720 square feet, 206 parking spaces, and 140 tractor trailer spaces.
All the buildings at the park will be highly visible from Interstate 64 and a power substation on the southeast corner of the property ensures the park will have the energy capacity necessary to support the most modern advanced manufacturing, data centers, and distribution technology. Simpsonville 64 also finds itself in the heart of a large, qualified labor force with almost 570,000 workers within 30 miles of the park, more than 60% of whom live within a 25-minute drive.
Simpsonville 64 Logistics Park will be Hunt Midwest’s second industrial development in Kentucky following the construction of Blankenbaker Logistics Center, a 322,831-square-foot industrial development on Plantside Drive in east Louisville. Piston Automotive leased the entire facility in 2021 before construction was completed.
