North Fort Worth's logistics buildout just leveled up again. Hillwood has broken ground on Alliance Westport 16, a roughly 1.2 million square foot Class A speculative industrial building in the Alliance Logistics District in north Fort Worth. The developer says construction is underway and delivery is targeted for July 2027, adding another large, move-in-ready option next to Perot Field and the BNSF intermodal complex. The project is the latest in a multi-million-square-foot wave across AllianceTexas aimed at drawing big distribution and advanced manufacturing tenants.
According to Hillwood, Alliance Westport 16 will front Mobility Way and is planned with a 40-foot clear height, a 620-foot building depth, 60-foot loading bays and 276 trailer parking spaces, along with 3,000 amps of power and 190-foot truck courts. A private bridge connecting the site directly to BNSF's Alliance Intermodal Facility is already under construction, and the design anticipates autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle operations to speed up movement between the intermodal yard and the warehouse.
Tax perks and intermodal access
Alliance Westport 16 sits inside Foreign Trade Zone No. 196 and can tap the triple Freeport inventory tax exemption that AllianceTexas says helps reduce inventory and customs costs for qualifying shippers. Those incentives, paired with immediate proximity to Perot Field and the BNSF intermodal hub, are central to how the site is being pitched to national logistics users, according to AllianceTexas.
Demand and the pipeline
The new project pushes Hillwood's industrial pipeline in AllianceTexas to roughly 8.2 million square feet under construction or in design, underscoring how hungry the market remains for million-square-foot speculative buildings. Alliance Westport 16 continues Hillwood’s AllianceTexas strategy to continually have available, ready-to-occupy Class A speculative industrial options of all sizes, Hillwood vice president Samuel Rhea said in the company's announcement, as reported by Hillwood.
Industry outlets are taking note, too. REBusinessOnline and the Dallas Business Journal both framed Alliance Westport 16 alongside other large format projects that are redrawing North Fort Worth's logistics map. Their coverage highlights the building's direct rail and airport connections as planners and tenants work to trim drayage times and bulk up intermodal capacity.
AllianceTexas now counts hundreds of corporate residents and tens of thousands of jobs, and developer materials credit the master planned campus with a multibillion-dollar regional impact, a scale that helps explain why major logistics players keep circling sites there, according to AllianceTexas. Local workforce and planning partners say projects of this size tend to spark hiring and supplier chain activity, but they also add strain to roads and infrastructure as the industrial footprint keeps expanding.
Hillwood said Alliance Westport 16 follows last year's start on Alliance Westport 15 and will further expand the company's ready-to-occupy inventory in the district. Community Impact reports the developer expects Westport 16 to deliver in July 2027, while the private bridge connection is slated to wrap up in early 2027. Brokers say tenants that need fast move-in timelines and direct intermodal access will be the prime targets once the shell is complete.
