There is more industrial space coming to AllianceTexas as Hillwood continues to see demand from the manufacturing sector.
Hillwood is scheduled to begin construction on Alliance Westport 12, a 1.2 million-square-foot industrial building within the newly established Alliance Logistics District.
The new building will be located at the northwest corner of Mobility Way and Distribution Drive. Construction is scheduled to begin this month with completion expected in early 2027.
The Alliance Logistics District — officially designated and approved by the Fort Worth City Council on Nov. 11 — will span nearly 1,400 acres and allow companies the right to deploy semi- and fully autonomous vehicles along roadways in the freight corridor, supporting next-generation logistics and automation, according to Hillwood.
Construction on Hillwood’s private bridge connecting Alliance Westport to BNSF’s Alliance Intermodal Facility, a key component of the district, begins this month, with completion expected by 2027.
“Alliance Westport 12 advances the logistics efficiencies and features set in our speculative industrial program,” said Samuel Rhea, vice president of Hillwood, in a statement. “The demand we are seeing has reaffirmed the need for million-square-foot-plus facilities.”
The announcement comes as the Dallas-Fort Worth area remained the strongest industrial market in the U.S. for both supply and demand in 2025, according to a report from JLL.
Speaking at the 2026 Tarrant County Real Estate Forecast on Jan. 22, Rhea said that the tariff-related turmoil of 2025 created a new demand for manufacturing space.
“We were not prepared for what we started to see firsthand: the resurgence of U.S. manufacturing in AllianceTexas and across DFW,” he said. “What has historically been, especially in AllianceTexas, a logistics and distribution market, truly started to shift.”
Rhea said Hillwood began to see 75% to 85% of all inquiries now being related to manufacturing, production and assembly by the midpoint of 2025. Historically, that had been inquiries from logistics, distribution and e-commerce-related businesses.
“By the end of the year, we had our second-best leasing square footage year in the history of AllianceTexas,” he said.
Hillwood in August announced two speculative industrial buildings — Alliance Westport 15, a 798,494-square-foot facility at Mobility Way and Intermodal Parkway, and Alliance Gateway 34, a 310,036-square-foot building at Westport Parkway and Independence Parkway.
Hillwood is currently under construction on four speculative industrial buildings totaling more than 3.4 million square feet at AllianceTexas.
These projects follow several recent leases at AllianceTexas.
“Landman” producer Taylor Sheridan’s SGS Studios, in partnership with Hillwood, launched a 450,000-square-foot film and television production campus — now the largest operating studio facility in Texas — at the previously named Alliance Center East 2 & 3 speculative sites. Also, Wistron, one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers, announced plans for two AI supercomputing facilities within AllianceTexas, including Hillwood’s Alliance Westport 14 speculative project.
And more could be on the way. Earlier this month, the Fort Worth council approved economic incentives designed to attract a company that manufactures equipment used to cool data centers. If Fort Worth is selected for the plant, Stellar Energy would invest nearly $80 million at an industrial site in the AllianceTexas development that would bring more than 1,400 jobs.
Westport 24 is designed by GSR Andrade Architects with civil engineering services provided by Westwood Professional Services, and Hillwood Construction Services will serve as the general contractor with financing by Bank of America.
Bob Francis is business editor for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at bob.francis@fortworthreport.org.
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