McKinley Packaging Selects Lancaster for 500,000-Square-foot Box Plant

On behalf of McKinley Packaging, CBRE announced the ground-breaking of a 500,000-square-foot corrugated box plant in Lancaster, Texas.

The project broke ground on Feb. 1 with an anticipated completion date of November 2022. The plant will add about 125 new jobs in the South Dallas submarket.

Steve Berger and Ann Huntington with CBRE in Dallas brokered the sale of the land.

This facility will be used to manufacture corrugated boxes, which have seen a huge surge in demand due to the growth of e-commerce and companies that now offer direct-to-doorstep shipping. After looking at locations in Louisiana and Oklahoma, McKinley Packaging selected Lancaster for their next packaging plant due to Dallas-Fort Worth’s central location as well as direct rail line access and the amount of land available.

McKinley Packaging is a leader in sustainable paper-based products and packaging in the United States and Mexico.

This will be McKinley Packaging’s fifth packaging plant in the U.S. with two additional plants in Baja California, Mexico.

Green Family Art Foundation Chooses Dallas ‘Arts District Atelier Building’ on Flora Street to Open its Permanent Venue

The Green Family Art Foundation, a non-profit organization has chosen Dallas ‘Arts District Atelier building on Flora Street to open its permanent venue. GFAF makes grants to museums benefiting and educating others about contemporary art. All programming is free and open to the public. Opening date of the foundation is scheduled in May 2022. This Dallas family has over 25 years of art collecting experience and the expansion into a public space is a mission to promising to bring ambitious exhibitions of international contemporary art with a focus on woman artists, artists of color, and LGBTQIA + artists to Dallas.