Beacon Partners: EXCLUSIVE: Metrolina Expo site to become $80M distribution park with homage to fairgrounds, airport heritage

Beacon Partners plans to develop an $80 million distribution business park called Metrolina Logistics Park on the 94-acre site that now houses the Metrolina Tradeshow Expo in north Charlotte. Jon Morris, partner at Beacon, says the park will honor the site's fairgrounds and early airport heritage in signage or some other type of monument on the property. Beacon has an agreement to buy the site and plans to start construction during the second half of 2016. Tim Robertson, director of industrial...