Jackson-Shaw Plans 1.2 MSF Austin-Area Industrial Project
A data center construction company is already under contract for half of the space.
Jackson-Shaw will develop two facilities totaling 1.2 million square feet of industrial space in Georgetown, Texas, within Greater Austin. Upon completion, the properties will be the largest such buildings in the market, outside of Tesla and Samsung’s facilities.
Construction is slated to kick off in March, with the development crew including ARCO/Murray Design Build and Ryan Cos. as general contractors. Powers Brown served as the architect, while Westwood provided civil engineering services. CBRE will oversee leasing.
Each facility will span 606,000 square feet, with one of the projects developed as a build-to-suit for data center construction company Baer Manufacturing. The other warehouse will be constructed on a speculative basis.
Compatriot Capital provided equity for the Baer build-to-suit project, while Busey Bank issued a construction loan. Huntington provided the debt for the speculative development.
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These buildings are set to rise within Jackson-Shaw’s CrossPoint master-planned development that spans 224 acres and may encompass nearly 2 million square feet. This latest endeavor will mark the developer’s second phase, which adds upon the 488,758-square-foot first stage.
In fact, Bear will take up 73,000 square feet at this first phase as an interim operating space while waiting for its larger facility to come online in 2027. The firm is a producer of prefabricated electrical products, with a focus on underground duct banks used in data center infrastructure.
Located at 4811-5307 N. Interstate 35, CrossPoint is about 35 miles northeast of downtown Austin and approximately 5 miles away from Georgetown Executive Airport. Data center company Sanmina Corp. operates a factory close to the airport, which it acquired last year as part of its $3 billion deal with AMD.
Austin’s industrial completions retain momentum
Austin’s industrial deliveries clocked in at 10.8 million square feet in 2025, representing a 4.6 percent year-over-year growth, according to Yardi Matrix data. This marks the fourth year in a row when completions have surpassed the 10 million square feet mark. For reference, the two-decade annual average for the year ending in 2021 was just 2.1 million square feet.
The momentum is likely to continue as developers broke ground on more than 5 million square feet last year, more than doubling the entire activity of 2024, which totaled approximately 2.3 million square feet, the same source shows.
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