Crews start AeroPoint 1960, a 457,000-square-foot manufacturing campus in North Houston
George Bush Intercontinental Airport, near the new campus. Photo: Thomas Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A new manufacturing campus is going up in North Houston, aimed at a kind of space that is in short supply. RevKo Commercial Real Estate has started construction on AeroPoint 1960, a 457,000-square-foot, crane-served campus at 5301 FM 1960 East, near George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
JLL, which is marketing the project for sale and lease along with RevKo, announced it Nov. 9. According to JLL, the development comes in two phases. Phase I is five freestanding buildings totaling about 202,000 square feet, each with its own industrial outdoor storage yard, with delivery set for the third quarter of 2027. Phase II adds roughly 255,000 square feet of build-to-suit and design-build space for companies that want a customized facility.
Why manufacturing space
The pitch rests on how tight the market is. JLL said manufacturing vacancy was about 2.5% in the first quarter of 2026, against 7.5% for Houston’s industrial market overall, and it put crane-served vacancy at roughly 2% citywide. Most new construction in the metro, JLL said, is large warehouse and distribution space rather than buildings built for production.
“Manufacturing users are facing a very different market than traditional warehouse and distribution users,” JLL Executive Vice President Geoff Perrott said. “AeroPoint 1960 is well positioned to meet that demand.” Jon Sellers, CEO of RevKo’s development team, leads the project. JLL’s Perrott and David Holland, with RevKo principal Boomer White, are handling marketing.
A busy pipeline
The groundbreaking is one piece of a large build-out. Bisnow reported that Houston has 20.7 million square feet of industrial space under construction, the second-largest pipeline in the country, citing JLL data. It also cited Partners Real Estate figures showing 5.4 million square feet of industrial absorption in the third quarter, 15% above the 10-year quarterly average.
Bisnow noted a second project the same week: MetLife Investment Management and Panattoni Development are building a 450,000-square-foot second phase at Enterprise Park at Twinwood in Brookshire, west of Houston, after the first phase’s 272,000 square feet leased up. Vestas and Abnex are among the tenants there.
What it means for the North Houston corridor
The site is near the airport, and JLL says that access is part of the pitch. No tenants have been announced for AeroPoint 1960. Delivery of the first five buildings in late 2027 will show whether manufacturers are ready to sign on to space that is not yet built, or whether they stay in the tight existing stock.
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