The Cubes at Etna Buildings B and C, Schuster Way, Etna, Ohio

The Cubes at Etna is filling up. CRG broke ground in early November on two more Class A industrial buildings totaling 911,040 square feet at the 305-acre park in Etna, Ohio, about 20 miles from downtown Columbus. One of them was spoken for before the first footing was poured.

Building B, at 750,120 square feet, is fully leased to Omega Morgan, a specialized transportation, heavy rigging and machinery moving company. Omega Morgan already occupies the park’s 250,020-square-foot Building D and is expanding next door. Building C, at 160,920 square feet, is going up on spec.

Project Scope

Building B is a big box built for heavy freight. It gets 40-foot clear heights, 141 dock doors, four drive-in doors, 185-foot truck courts and 50-by-54-foot column spacing, plus 397 car spaces and 219 trailer stalls. Building C is a more conventional 32-foot-clear spec building with 30 docks, two drive-ins, a 60-foot speed bay, 174 car spaces and 63 trailer stalls.

Lamar Johnson Collaborative, a Clayco company like CRG, is the architect. Contegra Construction is general contractor, the same pairing that delivered Building E and Building D in the park. CRG is developing both buildings with an affiliate of its capital partner LXP Industrial Trust. Both are scheduled to finish in 2027, with Building C due in summer.

The buildings sit near the Interstate 70 interchange at State Route 310 and carry a 15-year, 100% tax abatement.

Why It Matters

This park has been a steady machine. CRG and LXP bought the land in 2018, delivered a 1.2-million-square-foot fulfillment center for Kohl’s in 2020, finished the 1.07-million-square-foot Building E on spec in 2022, and completed Building D in early 2024. With B and C underway, only one build-to-suit site remains, according to REBusinessOnline.

The tenant is the interesting part. Omega Morgan isn’t an e-commerce shipper chasing last-mile coverage. It moves and installs heavy industrial equipment, and central Ohio has no shortage of that work, with data centers, chip fabs and utility projects stacking up around Licking County. A rigging firm tripling its footprint here says more about the region’s construction pipeline than another parcel-sorting lease would.

The spec building is the hedge. At 160,920 square feet, it’s a much smaller bet than the million-square-foot spec box CRG put up here in 2022, sized for mid-box users rather than national distributors.

Project Team & Details