VanTrust Real Estate has sold a recently delivered Anderson-DuBose warehouse in Jacksonville, Florida, marking a sizable industrial trade in the rail-served Westlake Industrial Park. An affiliate of US Realty Advisors acquired the asset for $66.9 million. The facility totals 153,000 square feet and functions as a food-service distribution center supplying McDonald’s restaurants across the surrounding region.
City records in Jacksonville listed the original site-improvement cost at $60 million, indicating a substantial public and private investment to bring the project online. The property is described as one of the few remaining rail-served locations within Westlake Industrial Park, which is owned by Norfolk Southern. That scarcity of comparable rail-enabled sites underscores the strategic positioning of the warehouse within the park’s logistics ecosystem.
Westlake Industrial Park is exclusively served by a Norfolk Southern mainline, providing direct rail access for tenants that depend on efficient movement of bulk goods. The park generates more than 160 carloads for Norfolk Southern each year, with the Anderson-DuBose facility contributing to that transportation volume as part of its distribution operations.
The project has also been tied to local job creation. Anderson-DuBose received public funding support tied to the creation of 109 jobs associated with the opening of the Jacksonville warehouse. In 2024, the Jacksonville City Council approved a $1.5 million incentive package to encourage the company to expand its footprint into the city, aligning municipal economic development priorities with industrial investment.
Anderson-DuBose has a long-standing relationship with McDonald’s, supplying paper and food products to the quick-service chain’s restaurants for more than three decades. The company serves more than 650 McDonald’s locations across Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Florida. The Jacksonville distribution center extends that network, positioning the company to serve McDonald’s restaurants in the region from a modern, rail-connected facility.
The sale of the Anderson-DuBose warehouse highlights continuing investor interest in mission-critical industrial assets that combine logistics advantages, such as rail access, with long-term occupier relationships in the food-service supply chain. For Jacksonville, the transaction reinforces the industrial park’s role as a logistics hub while supporting job growth tied to a nationally recognized restaurant brand’s distribution network.
