Mercer Company industrial specialists advise private investor on outdoor-storage-enabled acquisition east of Dallas
-- Cole Brewton and Kyleb Howell, industrial real estate brokers with Mercer Company, represented the buyer in the acquisition of 201 Metro Drive, a 38,000-square-foot manufacturing facility on approximately three acres in Terrell, Texas. The transaction was structured as a sale-leaseback.
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The seller, an owner-occupier, sought to convert real estate equity into working capital without relocating operations. Under the structure, the seller received proceeds at closing and retained occupancy under a short-term lease. The buyer, a private investor, acquired in-place income with several forward options: re-leasing at market upon expiration, repositioning the site toward outdoor-storage users, or converting to owner-user occupancy.
The property sits in the Forney–Terrell corridor east of Dallas, with access to Interstate 20 and U.S. Highway 80. Its combination of manufacturing space and fenced outdoor yard draws interest from logistics operators, contractors, and equipment-intensive tenants across the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
"Representing buyers and sellers on industrial sale-leasebacks and outdoor-storage-heavy deals like 201 Metro Drive is exactly where we add value," said Cole Brewton, Market Director — Industrial at The Mercer Company and an SIOR Member Associate. "Our client wanted durable income today and flexibility tomorrow, and this asset delivers both."
Industrial sale-leasebacks allow owner-users to monetize real estate at full value and redeploy proceeds into the operating business while continuing to occupy the facility under lease. For investors, the structure produces immediate cash flow — frequently on a net lease basis — with the option to re-tenant or reposition over time.
Industrial outdoor storage, or IOS, has become one of the more constrained segments of the industrial market in Dallas–Fort Worth. Limited zoned supply, municipal restrictions on outdoor storage entitlements, and rising land costs have kept yard-inclusive sites in short supply even as demand from logistics and equipment-driven users has held steady.
As core Dallas industrial submarkets tighten and pricing climbs, investors and owner-users have increasingly underwritten East Dallas, Forney, and Terrell for lower cost basis, population growth, and improving infrastructure.
About the company: Cole Brewton and Kyleb Howell are Market Directors with Mercer Company. They specialize in Dallas–Fort Worth industrial investment sales, landlord representation, and off-market warehouse and distribution assets, working across South Dallas/Red Bird, the I-20 corridor, South Fort Worth, Alliance, the Design District, and Trinity.
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Organization: Mercer Company
Address: 2461 N. Stemmons Fwy, Dallas, TX 75207
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Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cole-brewton/home
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