Clearing and grading is underway for a 788,550-square foot warehouse on 68.8 acres between Kimrey Road and N.C. Highway 119, just inside Graham’s city limits.
The forthcoming industrial/distribution building is being marketed as a “build-to-suit” (i.e. spec) industrial/distribution warehouse project through the state Department of Commerce.
The overall site plan will include space for parking up to 427 automobiles; space on two sides of the building where up to 100 semi-truck trailers can be dropped for loading and unloading; and up to 171 dock doors, according to a brochure from a commercial real estate firm that is marketing the property through the commerce department.
The property will also include a 130-foot deep “truck court” for semi-trucks to pull in and out of the site easily, according to a commercial real estate firm that is marketing the property through the commerce department.
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The forthcoming 788,550-square foot spec industrial/distribution building is targeted for completion in 2027, according to the marketing materials.
Its completion will mark the third phase of a nearly 1.4 million-square foot industrial development that Greensboro-based Windsor Commercial has built in or near the N.C. Commerce Park between Graham and Mebane.
Windsor’s president, Buddy Seymour, went before Graham’s city council in 2023 to request light industrial zoning and annexation for the 68.8-acre parcel, which the council unanimously approved, 5-0.
The first phase, “Alamance Ridge I,” was a 296,940-square foot distribution center on 33.8 acres at 3875 Sen. Ralph Scott Parkway, which was completed in 2020 and subsequently occupied by Amazon. The site of the first phase is owned by Scott Mayo Holdings LLC of Greensboro, according to Alamance County tax records, which list the latest assessed tax value at $26.8 million.
Windsor Commercial completed construction on the second phase, “Alamance Ridge II,” a 297,675-square foot spec industrial/distribution building next to the first one, in 2025.
The third phase, “Alamance Ridge III,” consists of the forthcoming industrial/distribution building on the 68.8 acres across Kimrey Road from the spec warehouse that Windsor completed last year.
Alamance Ridge II is located on 36.06 acres at 2130 Kimrey Road (facing Gov. Scott Farm Road) and is owned by Alamance Ridge II and Windsor Development Group of Greensboro. Alamance County tax records list the latest assessed tax value for that property at $18.3 million.
The 68.73-acre site for Alamance Ridge III is situated along an unaddressed stretch of Kimrey Road and is currently owned by Scott Mayo Properties III of Burlington. The latest assessed value for that property is listed at $709,161, according to the county’s tax department.
Graham’s city council voted unanimously in July 2023 to rezone 68.71 acres of vacant land for light industrial use and to annex the property.
The plans for Alamance III drew objections from neighboring property owners at the time.
Greg Massey, one of the adjacent property owners, later told the council that Windsor had, indeed, made certain concessions, including agreeing to build an eight-foot-high wooden privacy fence along the property line beside the residences near the site.
The developer also agreed not to have trailer storage along the property line next to residential areas; promised that lighting would be directed back toward the industrial/distribution building; and agreed to install and maintain a buffer beside the houses, Seymour confirmed for the city council in July 2023.
While Graham’s planning board had recommended denying the developer’s request for light industrial zoning, the city’s planning staff had recommended approval, reasoning that the new industrial development would provide additional tax revenue and that the cost to extend city water and sewer service would be minimal.
Assistant city manager Aaron Holland told The Alamance News Tuesday afternoon that he thought the overall site plan developed by an engineering firm, Timmons Group, might’ve gone before the city’s Technical Review Committee (TRC) for staff input on Monday, but wasn’t sure and said he couldn’t provide any recommendations that may have emerged during the discussion.
Phases I and II are within the N.C. Commerce Park, on the Graham side of a joint industrial site where property taxes are divided among Graham, Mebane, and Alamance County.
But Phase III is across the road from the industrial park, entirely within Graham’s jurisdiction; thus Graham would receive all revenues from current and future property taxes.
