{"id":131574,"date":"2026-01-21T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131574\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:52:16","slug":"wedgewood-houston-warehouse-listed-for-sale-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131574\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedgewood-Houston warehouse listed for sale | Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wedgewood-Houston building that last changed ownership nearly 50 years ago has been listed for sale for an undisclosed asking price.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"520 Merritt.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1017\" height=\"629\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>520 Merritt Ave.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Photo: Sagemont<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"520 Merritt concept image.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1187\" height=\"770\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>A concept image<\/p>\n<p>Opened in 1981, the warehouse offers 31,283 square feet and an address of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/520+Merritt+Ave,+Nashville,+TN+37203\/@36.1401465,-86.7690842,199m\/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x8864667111a39467:0x152c13f60db7c718!8m2!3d36.1401465!4d-86.7684405!16s%2Fg%2F11vzjx8tc0?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDExMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">520 Merritt Ave.<\/a> The structure sits next a structure called The Nashville Design Collective (read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashvillepost.com\/business\/development\/weho-slated-for-nashville-design-collective\/article_66f32433-362b-547b-a37c-ed3db0b274cc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>). Across the street sits Somera Road&#8217;s The Mill, to be a part of Martin &amp; Merritt (read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashvillepost.com\/business\/development\/details-unfold-for-planned-wedgewood-houston-project\/article_af433686-d4af-11ed-976f-ef92beda27be.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Metro records are unclear as to the ownership entity. However, the records note the owner acquired the 1.64-acre property in mid-1976 for $39,174.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Optical is the structure\u2019s lone tenant, with the company\u2019s lease expiring this November. Southern Optical, which manufactures eyewear, has operated from the warehouse since 1994, according to marketing materials.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, the seller in the 1976 deal acquired the property in 1946.<\/p>\n<p>The property is zoned for industrial and warehousing\/distribution usage.<\/p>\n<p>The owner has enlisted Nashville-based commercial real estate company Sagemont (for which partner Trent Yates is overseeing) to handle the marketing and sale of the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wedgewood-Houston building that last changed ownership nearly 50 years ago has been listed for sale for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,17639],"class_list":["post-131574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-wedgewood-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}