B-29 Investments and Hughes Commercial have started construction on Camp Howze Industrial Rail Park, a 489-acre master-planned industrial project in Gainesville, Texas. The development is planned to accommodate up to 7 million square feet of industrial space across 14 buildings, with a mix of rail-served and non-rail-served build-to-suit options tailored to logistics, manufacturing, and distribution users.
The project is positioned along Interstate 35 and U.S. Highway 82, providing highway connectivity for regional and national distribution. Camp Howze is being designed to serve a wide range of occupier requirements, with sites and facilities planned for users from approximately 50,000 square feet to more than 1 million square feet. Build-to-suit facilities at the park will be available both for lease and for purchase, giving occupiers flexibility in how they structure long-term real estate commitments.
Leasing at Camp Howze is being led by Stream, with Matthew Dornak and Connor Land overseeing marketing and tenant outreach for the park. Their mandate includes sourcing users across the logistics, manufacturing, and distribution spectrum that can leverage both the highway and rail infrastructure integrated into the site plan.
BNSF Railway is building a rail connection that will provide direct service into Camp Howze Industrial Rail Park. Rail service to the park is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2027, with the ability to expand service as customer demand grows. This new connection is intended to support occupiers that rely on rail for bulk shipping while also creating multimodal options within the park.
In addition to rail-served development sites, the master plan for Camp Howze includes a transload component of more than 30 acres. This area is designed to facilitate rail-to-truck and truck-to-rail movements, supporting tenants that need flexible freight handling without committing to dedicated rail spurs for every building. The plan also calls for a 200,000-square-foot freight-forwarding facility within the park, intended to support logistics and distribution users with value-added services tied to the new rail link.
As development advances, Camp Howze Industrial Rail Park is positioned to add large-scale industrial capacity to the Gainesville area while connecting tenants to both interstate and Class I rail infrastructure. The combination of build-to-suit offerings, highway access, and scheduled rail service is aimed at capturing demand from users seeking multimodal logistics solutions in the broader Dallas-Fort Worth industrial corridor.
