IDV’s 1.6 million-square-foot business park GrandPort 99 in Baytown lands first tenant

October 9, 2025

A 120-acre industrial park under construction in the Baytown area has signed its first tenant.

Houston-based IDV is developing GrandPort 99 between Kilgore Road and FM 565 just east of the Grand Parkway. The project could eventually total around 1.6 million square feet.

GrandPort 99’s first phase encompasses two buildings, a 142,739-square-foot front-load and a 338,337-square-foot cross-dock warehouse, both of which were completed in the third quarter of this year, the company confirmed.

Architectural Surfaces Group has just signed a long-term lease for 101,968 square feet at the latter building. The Austin-based company, which was represented by CBRE’s Hector and Ed Frantz in the lease negotiations, is an importer and distributor of natural stone, quartz and tile for residential and commercial applications.

Its new facility is LEED-certified and has 40-foot clear height, dock-high loading doors with ramps and 76 trailer stalls, according to the property’s marketing brochure.

The landlord, a partnership between IDV and Alto Real Estate Funds, was represented by Travis Land and A.J. Williams with Partners Real Estate.

“Launching our new Houston Regional Distribution Center at GrandPort 99 puts our team exactly where our customers need us — next to Port Houston and the region’s key corridors — so we can turn imports faster, stock deeper and deliver more consistently,” Architectural Surfaces CEO Kyle Bartz said in a press release. “This regional distribution center is a strategic investment in service, quality and sustainable growth for our branches and customers across the Gulf and beyond.”

Architectural Surfaces Group decided to go with a ground-up development where it could add its own crane due to low availability of manufacturing properties, according to the release.

The southeast Houston industrial market accounts for about 18% of the region’s total industrial inventory and has 4.5% vacancy, according to Partners.

"This deal is a testament to the continued demand for high-quality industrial space in prime locations like GrandPort 99, where immediate access to major thoroughfares like Grand Parkway 99 and (Interstate) 10 was a key driver,” Land said in the release.

GrandPort 99 has another 90 acres available for future phases that could include build-to-suit warehouses and buildings up to 1.07 million square feet.

The company declined to say when it acquired the land for the development and when it broke ground, nor did it disclose the project’s architect or general contractor. IDV, also known as Investment & Development Ventures, has numerous industrial projects across the Houston area, both developed and acquired, including the 716,000-square-foot Anserra Business Park in Katy, which it built in 2023.

The GrandPort 99 lease follows the recent groundbreaking of another industrial park in the Baytown area. Houston-based BCS is developing the 46-acre Grove Business Park along I-10 just west of Sjolander Road. It will consist of nine new buildings ranging from 30,000 to 120,120 square feet, totaling 438,960 square feet, and is designed to meet the needs of small to medium-sized end-user businesses.