Amazon Adds Real Estate To Forney Texas

Forney is scoring big in the North Texas last-mile industrial lotto, with Amazon announcing plans to bring a fulfillment center and 500 jobs to the suburb. 

So what makes Forney, a small DFW gateway community heading into East Texas, a popular hub for Amazon and other industrial players? Why would Amazon want to build commercial real estate in this area?

There is 11.9M SF of industrial space in the submarket that includes the western half of Kaufman County and Forney, data shows. The market also boasts a low industrial vacancy rate of 1.1%, compared to the rest of DFW, which carries an average vacancy rate of 6.6%, according to Hendershot. 

Amazon isn’t the only company to take a bet on Forney lately: The area got 1.2M SF of positive net absorption in the last 12 months, Hendershot said. That is largely thanks to Goodyear, which took down a 1.2M SF distribution center delivered by Hillwood in early 2020.

There is 11.9M SF of industrial space in the submarket that includes the western half of Kaufman County and Forney, data shows. The market also boasts a low industrial vacancy rate of 1.1%, compared to the rest of DFW, which carries an average vacancy rate of 6.6%, according to Hendershot. 

Amazon isn’t the only company to take a bet on Forney lately: The area got 1.2M SF of positive net absorption in the last 12 months, Hendershot said. That is largely thanks to Goodyear, which took down a 1.2M SF distribution center delivered by Hillwood in early 2020.

Forney is well-positioned to become a last-mile or industrial player, with the city sitting 20 miles east of Dallas and near U.S. Highway 80 and Interstate Highway 20. 

Name-brand tenants like Amazon and Goodyear have put Forney on the map for other industrial end-users scouring the Metroplex for fulfillment and distribution space.