Clearing begins for 788,550-square-foot warehouse near Graham

Clearing and grading are underway on a 68.8-acre tract between Kimrey Road and N.C. Highway 119, just inside Graham’s city limits, where Windsor Commercial is planning a 788,550-square-foot industrial and distribution warehouse. The site plan shows the scale of what is coming: parking for up to 427 cars, room for as many as 100 tractor-trailers on two sides of the building, 171 dock doors and a 130-foot truck court designed to keep freight moving in and out efficiently.

The project is being marketed as a build-to-suit, or spec, facility through the North Carolina Department of Commerce, and current leasing materials from Cushman & Wakefield list a 2027 build date. That means land disturbance is already under way before a tenant has been publicly named, a notable step for a project of this size so close to Graham neighborhoods and along a road network that will have to absorb more truck traffic if the building is occupied as planned.

Graham’s city council annexed and rezoned the 68.791-acre tract for light industrial use in July 2023, approving the request 5-0 after Windsor Commercial president Buddy Seymour brought the proposal forward. The warehouse would become Alamance Ridge III, the third phase of Windsor’s industrial buildout around the North Carolina Commerce Park, with Alamance Ridge I completed in 2020 and later occupied by Amazon and Alamance Ridge II completed in 2025. Windsor’s project page lists the first two buildings at 297,675 square feet apiece, or 595,350 square feet combined.

The new phase sits in a corridor that already has some of the county’s biggest logistics names. The North Carolina Commerce Park in the Hawfields area covers 1,100 acres and was officially created in 2015 as a certified industrial site effort, according to Graham. The park already houses Walmart, Lidl, Amazon and United Parcel Service, and Graham says it still has about 1.3 million gallons per day of unused wastewater capacity, along with utility access from Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas.

The original commerce park development involved about $12 million in infrastructure funding from the three local governments and the N.C. Department of Transportation. A University of North Carolina School of Government case study said the park includes land in Graham, Mebane and unincorporated Alamance County, and earlier reporting has noted that property-tax revenues from facilities within the joint park are shared among those governments. Alamance Ridge III, by contrast, would sit entirely within Graham’s jurisdiction, sending the property-tax revenue from this building directly to the city.

The timing also lands in a corridor already shaped by large industrial expansions. The commerce park opened to attract a Walmart distribution center, Amazon later occupied one of the first Windsor buildings, and UPS’s earlier project was tied to 451 full-time jobs and about 1,000 part-time workers. Alamance Ridge III adds another massive warehouse to that pattern, and the practical effect for nearby streets will be measured in truck trips, dock activity and the strain that comes with another large freight building moving toward completion in 2027.