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. ~rorte Dean B Tnilt Ta fiuy RanltYt • Date: 2H U87 Time:15~Z57 • Pape 2 0! 5 <br />Proposed Tezaa Import/Eaport Industrial Park <br />Project Description: <br />The Texas ImportlExport Industrial Park is a project presently in the <br />planning stage by the carrent owners of the property (the Haynsworth Group) and <br />Center Land Company. The proposed development would occupy 252 acres north of <br />McCabe Road between State Highway 146 and the Bayport Industrial District. <br />La Porte is the home to some of the nation's largest chemical and plastics <br />manufacturing facilities. As these industries grow and prosper, creating jobs and <br />opportunities for the whole region, there is a continuing need for additional <br />warehousing distribution, packaging and transportation infrastructure. This <br />mixed use industrial park would include warehousing, packaging, office and retail <br />with related transportation infrastructure of rail and connecting roads. The total <br />projected development cysts over the next 6 years will be approximately <br />$200,000,000. <br />Plastics and che**+~ca1a produced in the LaPorte area plants provide an <br />opportunity for this area to participate in the benefits of investments, jobs, and <br />related tax revenues required for the marketing, handling, distribution and re- <br />packaging of these products. <br />The westerly 8? acres of the development adjoining the Bayport Industrial <br />District and the existing Union Pacific rail line would be developed into a rail and <br />trucking handling area with related support facilitates. Most of the products <br />produced in this area are loaded on rail to be shipped to their destinations. This <br />transportation infrastructure would include an area for the storage of a 1,000 to <br />1, 500 rail cars and transloading facilities for movement of products to the trucks. <br />The development would also include the upgrading of Powell Road south to <br />McCabe Road designed for the required capacity of the facility. The trucking and <br />rail handling area would be separated by sound abatement structures and <br />landscaping on the west side of Powell Road. <br />On the east side of Powell Road dock high warehouse and packaging <br />buildings would be constructed in a campus-type setting. These structures would be <br />of architectural concrete design situated in a well landscaped, esthetically pleasing <br />surrounding with a plan and design for the total development which would present <br />an architectural continuity between structures. This area would accommodate <br />