Big industrial project in works for North Las Vegas

After selling a North Las Vegas concern parkland for much than $130 million, a developer has scooped up different crippled of onshore successful the metropolis for a large warehouse project.

Matter Real Estate Group announced this week that it acquired much than 40 acres adjacent Las Vegas Motor Speedway with plans to physique a astir 1 million-square-foot concern complex.

The project, Matter Logistics @ North 15, is slated to diagnostic 2 buildings: 1 that spans much than 685,000 quadrate feet, and different that measures astir 250,000 quadrate feet.

Matter plans to interruption crushed successful the 4th fourth and unfastened the analyzable successful precocious 2022, a quality merchandise said.

All told, the task volition outgo much than $100 million, Matter spouse Jim Stuart told the Review-Journal.

Fueled heavy by the emergence of e-commerce, warehouse developers person been connected a years-long operation spree successful Southern Nevada, particularly successful North Las Vegas. Big chunks of onshore person been disposable determination astatine comparatively debased prices implicit the years, and officials person expanded the city’s infrastructure, enabling much big-box facilities to instrumentality shape.

By each accounts, the valley’s concern assemblage besides has held up good amid the coronavirus pandemic. The outbreak dealt a crushing stroke to the system wide past year, astatine 1 constituent turning the Strip into a shade municipality of shuttered casinos, but besides sparked an accelerated displacement to online buying that has fueled request for organisation space.

Developers person pushed up with caller warehouse projects successful Southern Nevada amid the pandemic, and investors are inactive buying concern buildings.

Stuart said successful an email Wednesday that galore factors are helping substance “relentless” request for concern space. The biggest 1 is consumers’ accelerated online shopping, but that’s “closely followed” by their accrued expectations that what they acquisition “will amusement up connected their doorstep successful hours, not days.”

He besides said determination are “no disposable signs” that existent request for warehouse abstraction volition slice wrong the adjacent fewer years.

“It is conscionable the opposite,” Stuart said, adding that concern tenants “must aggressively vie for what abstraction is disposable successful amended markets.”

Principal Real Estate Investors, based successful Des Moines, Iowa, is financing the caller task successful North Las Vegas with Matter, according to the announcement this week.

The developers purchased the 42.7-acre task tract past period for astir $28.4 million, spot records show.

The acquisition followed Matter’s sale of a five-building concern park adjacent North Las Vegas Airport for $135 million. The sale, to Los Angeles concern steadfast Ares Management Corp., closed successful precocious July.

Matter broke crushed connected that task successful summertime 2019 and has said it leased “the bulk” of the analyzable aft the coronavirus outbreak upended regular life.

Contact Eli Segall astatine esegall@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0342. Follow @eli_segall connected Twitter.