Standex GRID / Amran Instrument Transformer Plant, CityPark Logistics Center Building 7, Missouri City, Texas

Grid equipment makers can’t buy capacity fast enough, and Standex GRID / Amran Instrument Transformers is answering with a 217,758-square-foot build-to-suit plant at CityPark Logistics Center in Missouri City, Texas. Chicago-based Logistics Property Co. is developing Building 7 for the company, and REBusinessOnline reported the start of construction on Nov. 9, 2026, after the developer announced the lease and groundbreaking in September.

Amran makes low- and medium-voltage instrument transformers, the current and voltage transformers that sit inside switchgear, panelboards, motor control centers, generators and metering cabinets. It isn’t glamorous hardware. It is, though, the kind of component that holds up a switchgear order when it runs short. Standex International bought Amran and its Indian sister company Narayan Powertech in October 2024 for about $462 million combined, its largest acquisition.

Project Scope

Building 7 is a cross-dock building with 32-foot clear height and car and trailer parking, laid out for office, production and warehouse space under one roof. It’s the seventh building in the 98-acre CityPark Logistics Center, which sits off Beltway 8 in southwest Houston near U.S. 90 and already has five fully leased buildings totaling more than 1 million square feet.

Burton Construction is the general contractor. Powers Brown Architecture designed the building and Pape-Dawson is the civil engineer. The developer says permits came through within a month of the lease being signed, which is fast for a building of this size, and it credits the city and the design team for that. Completion is targeted for the second quarter of 2027. Neither the developer nor the tenant has disclosed a construction cost.

Why It Matters

The point of the project is consolidation. Standex says the plant will pull five Houston-area locations into one building and become the brand’s largest North American site. That’s a common move for a manufacturer that grew through scattered leases and now needs a single, efficient line to keep up with orders.

The demand is real. Utilities, data center builders and switchgear OEMs are all chasing the same pool of electrical components, and transformer lead times have been a sore point on project schedules for years. One new building won’t fix that on its own. But a supplier that can move product faster from one Texas plant instead of five is a small, practical gain for the electrical supply chain.

There’s a development lesson here too. Logistics Property Co. delivered a manufacturing user, not a distribution tenant, inside a business park built for warehouses. With one build-to-suit pad left at CityPark, sized for roughly 225,720 square feet, expect more of these hybrid production and warehouse deals in Houston’s industrial parks.

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