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Experience matters. Reputations are earned. Proven success matters more than lofty promises. Think about that when you consider BNSF’s track record as the industry’s proven standard for the modern-day design of logistics parks and logistics centers. While both the parks and the centers share BNSF’s experience and innovation, the difference between the two is important. Each offers specific key strategic benefits to investing companies. 

BNSF helped pioneer the logistics park concept more than three decades ago, and from that day forward has consistently and boldly invested in infrastructure and innovation in both logistics parks and logistics centers. The logistics parks are developed and built by developer partners like Hillwood, CenterPoint or NorthPoint, and anchored by a BNSF intermodal facility.

In the logistics centers, BNSF owns the land, its Economic Development team scouts out sites well in advance of customer inquiries, and it builds the shared track, mainline turnouts and other required infrastructure.

The 17,000-acre Logistics Park Alliance, developed by Hillwood in Fort Worth, TX was visionary when it was launched in 1989, but is also solidly grounded in good business sense. Today it is home to a host of global logistics giants like DHL/Excel, Ryder Integrated Logistics, UPS, Walmart and Amazon.

Logistics Park Kansas City in Edgerton, Kansas, opened in 2013, and by the fourth quarter of 2017 it will have 11 million square feet of new construction. Tenants such as Amazon, UPS, Kubota, Spectrum Brands and, most recently, Horizon Global, all have facilities there.

After BNSF opened Logistics Park Kansas City, a year later the BNSF Logistics Center opened in Sweetwater, Texas, with an investment of $28 million to replace existing track and add 40,000 feet of new track to the site. The 75-acre site can serve five unique industrial operations, each with their own rail access. Companies like Cape and Son, Vulcan Material and Fairmont Santrol have eagerly made the logistics center their home.

Both innovative approaches of logistics parks and logistics centers, which are a part of BNSF’s economic development strategic program, can help a customer save time in the development process because the sites are shovel-ready. Customers derive unmatched value no matter which BNSF transportation mode they choose.

“It’s not just money saved, but time,” says Colby Tanner, assistant vice president, BNSF Economic Development. “On average, our customers can save up to nine months of development time, increasing their speed-to-market. This time-savings is critical in order for us and the businesses we partner with to meet the demands of today’s ever-growing marketplace.”

From industrial products such as petroleum or building materials, to consumer products and agriculture, BNSF can transport it all very safely and efficiently.

“Our ability to handle multiple unit trains of agricultural products and industrial products simultaneously within the facility dramatically increases the operational efficiency and volume capabilities,” says Cape and Son’s President Geoff Haney about their facility in BNSF’s Logistics Center in Sweetwater, Texas. “As we look for new product opportunities in the region, the facility design provides growth, flexibility and strategic advantages to be competitive in the marketplace.”

BNSF Economic Development’s positive impact extends to communities and customers alike. Ken Becker, executive director of Sweetwater Economic Development, says his town has benefited greatly from the investment.

“We were very pleased to work with the BNSF team,” he says. “The attention to detail, care and concern for the impact on our community was addressed early on.” 

The list goes on, the host of big-name investors too numerous to name. Guess it’s no surprise that the biggest players in the industry depend on BNSF. The myriad of site options simply means more choice, more flexibility and more efficiency for a growing number of customers.

They’re ready for you, too. Whether you’re selecting a site for a new facility, expanding an existing operation or evaluating transportation options, BNSF’s Economic Development team can help.

Follow so many businesses by putting BNSF’s expertise to work, and you’ll be rewarded with a unique, innovative solution that will set you on the right track for growth.

This Investment Profile has been prepared under the auspices of BNSF. BNSF’s Economic Development team uses a transparent, responsive and collaborative approach for working closely with companies, communities and consultants with the goal of establishing transportation and distribution solutions customized to the needs of the enterprise. For more information, visit bnsf.com/rail-development

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The Magnet for Manufacturing

The Pittsburgh region comes full circle, adding depth and breadth to its rich history as America’s factory.

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Intel Outside – May 2001 Cover Story, Site Selection Magazine

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — S itting on a hillside perch overlooking this town just north of Albuquerque, the 5,500-employee Intel Corp. campus casts an imposing shadow over the area economy.         That shadow is about to grow even larger, as Intel (www.intel.com) embarks on a US$2 billion, 1,000-worker expansion of its semiconductor […]

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Infrastructure: The Foundation For Kentucky’s Logistics Success

A major new bridge and new company projects continue to fortify the commonwealth’s national leadership role in logistics.

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Kentucky Auto Industry Speeds Up U.S. Recovery

Top-selling cars and trucks are built in Kentucky by Kentuckians.

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The Big Leap Forward

How Gov. Phil Bryant moved the Mississippi economy to unprecedented heights.

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Area Spotlights

The Governor’s On the Phone

by Mark Arend

Real GDP increased in 43 states in the first quarter of 2017, but only Texas grew to within a hair’s breadth of 4 percent.

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MIPIM: Watch Out, Europe, The Americans Coming

Cannes, France: It looks like a second Normandy landing here in the south of France: As Europe’s recovery settles into a long upward leg, U.S. investors are invading, grabbing buildings and real estate securities like they’re going out of style. And that surge will likely multiply the shares of real estate investment companies beginning to […]

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New Governor, New Agenda

But no less of a focus on being the top state business climate. Watch for information technology to play a critical role in boosting rural Georgia — and the state’s reputation as a business location worldwide.

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Mann Research Center Eyes 2011 Construction

Mann hopes to break ground by early 2011 on its Mann Research Center in the Florida Center for Innovation at Tradition, a privately developed research park in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

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Utilities: Big Fish In a Murky Pond

H ow can you help your region grow when you’re busy managing your own growth?         That is one of several questions facing the economic development arms of utilities big and small around the United States. As a recent benchmarking and best practices survey by the Utility Economic Development Association found, utilities […]

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Proximity Rules

Staying close to the supply chain of skills guided recent expansion and consolidation location decisions for at least three technology companies in the northern Boston, Massachusetts suburbs: Thermo Fisher Scientific, Red Hat, and Entegris.

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