The Forbes Business Center Storage Warehouses (Buildings 3-12) range from 11,128-153,459 SF also offering newly renovated offices ranging from 405-2,142 SF (North and South Office), and a 0.68-acre fenced, secured outside storage lot. These buildings offer Tenant with a storage solution that is cost effective, flexible, simplistic lease structure, and secured. The buildings are ideal for general storage, overflow inventory, contractor equipment storage, etc. Warehouse Specs: 14’ clear height, side load outside truck docks, drive-in doors with potential to add, zoned I-2 (Heavy Industrial).
Forbes Business Center located at 247 S. Forbes Road was originally developed in 1964 and occupied as part of the G. F. Vaughan portfolio, one of the two primary block/masonry industrial buildings (Building #1) is available. Building #1 has 52,796 total SF, 4,457 SF office, 2 dock doors, 1 drive-in door, 1200 AMP 480 V 3-phase power, and 20' clear height. Extensive 2019 renovations to the building include: interior and exterior paint, new asphalt and parking, upgraded dock doors and drive-in doors, new landscaping, LED lights, new TPO roof, new gutters, and much more.
247 S. Forbes Road is adjacent to McConnell Springs Park and the Central Rock Quarry with 980’ of frontage along S. Forbes Road running between Versailles Road and Old Frankfort Pike (inside New Circle Road). The property sits just “around the corner” from the popular and ever expanding Distillery District providing close proximity to restaurants/entertainment, 1 mile west of the Central Business District and Downtown, 1.8 miles north from the University of Kentucky (32,000 students), 5 miles east of the Bluegrass International Airport, and 5.4 miles from Interstates 75/64 via the new Newtown Pike Extension.
With an MSA over 645,000, Lexington is the second largest market in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Lexington provides a strategic location for businesses through access to a highly educated labor force, low startup and operational costs, below average cost of living, and its location at the I-75/I-64 intersection providing a 24-hour or less drive to approximately 70% of the United States population.