Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Underground Refrigerated Warehouse Space Build Out

The construction buildout or Finish Out for a refrigerated food processing plant or refrigerated warehouse space within an underground warehouse facility offers many different types of operational cost savings and lower lease rental rates when it is compared to above ground new facility construction pricing of a refrigerated food processing facility a refrigerated distribution center.
Some rental rates for refrigerated processing or refrigerated warehousing can be up to 50% less than similar like facilities constructed above ground.

One additional attribute that an underground warehouse space as as compared to an aboveground new construction site is the timing required to deliver a new refrigerated processing facility. An underground facility already has most all of the infrastructure in place and ready for interior buildout where an above ground facility does not. Innerstructure include such things as municipal water and sewer, zoning ordinance approval as well as electrical service and even such things as service roads already exist in an underground facility such as 440 Bussen Underground Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63129.

An underground warehouse facility already has the warehouse floors, ceilings and wallsand all of the utility services available and in place to the underground warehouse floor space. All that is required is to finish out of the interior floorspace to the tenant specifications. An aboveground facility using requires such things as land acquisition, architectural drawings for the facility, possibly bank financing if the facility is owned by the occupant, zoning requirements approved. Also when construction does start on aboveground facility it is always affected by weather. An underground facility is never affected by weather conditions.

Listed below are some of the specifications and attributes when considering construction build out of refrigerated food processing or refrigerated warehouse space in the greater Metropolitan St. Louis area. This underground facility is located in the southeast portion of St. Louis County and therefore has access to the Metropolitan East portion of the greater St. Louis,Missouri area.

Address: 440 Bussen Underground Road, unincorporated St. Louis County, Missouri 63129

Facility size: 119,000 total square feet. Ceiling height 24 feet. Total of 6 Truck dock doors.

Location: Greater Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri area located in the southwest portion of unincorporated St. Louis County, Missouri and 1/2 mile from Interstate 270. Less than 5 miles from Interstate 55 and Interstate 44 highways.

Property Description: Construction proposed build out for temperature controlled distribution facility which would include cooler warehouse storage space and also refrigerated food processing areas. Ideal for repackaging and value added warehouse services for food products or food ingredients that have temperature requirements of plus 32° for cooler specifications and up to 65° humidity controlled warehouse space.

Facility Highlights: Landlord has experience in construction build out of refrigerated cold storage space, having constructed numerous cooler warehouse and freezer warehouse spaces. Also one USDA refrigerated food processing space built out.

The ambient temperature of this industrial space is 65° which results in substantially lower utility costs for refrigerating cold storage floor space. Electrical usage has a monthly cost which is constant year-round.

Employee parking adjacent office space and abundant tractor trailer parking in large common area parking lot that is adjacent to the facility.

Facility has Union Pacific Railroad service access at less than 1 mile. Mississippi River deep water barge docks less than 1 mile.

The delivery time for this type of space is dramatically and substantially less than an above ground facility.

The amount and type of tenant improvements and temperatures will affect the lease rental rate. Estimated Lease Rental Rate are available by calling Jim Cronin, a refrigerated building real estate broker at 314-994-0577 or e-mail of j.cronin@hawkds.com


Additional refrigerated warehouse buildings, temperature controlled facilities, refrigerated food processing plants and refrigerated transfer facilities (cold docks) in St. Louis, Missouri and Kansas City, Missouri and throughout the Midwest can be viewed at www.hawkds.com