Developer CRG has broken ground on two new Class A industrial buildings totaling 911,040 square feet at The Cubes at Etna, a 305-acre master-planned industrial park in Etna Township in Licking County, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Columbus, REBusinessOnline reported on Wednesday, Nov. 4. The groundbreaking adds another large chapter to one of central Ohio’s biggest logistics parks, at the Interstate 70 interchange with State Route 310.
The larger of the two buildings is already spoken for. Building B, spanning 750,120 square feet, is fully leased to Omega Morgan, a specialized transportation, heavy rigging and machinery moving services company, according to REBusinessOnline. Omega Morgan already occupies Building D at the park, and the new lease is an expansion of its presence there rather than a first arrival — a sign, in the project’s own terms, that an existing tenant chose to grow in Etna Township instead of looking elsewhere in the Columbus region.
The second building is being built without a tenant signed in advance. Building C measures 160,920 square feet and is being developed on a speculative basis, REBusinessOnline reported. Both buildings are slated for completion in 2027, with Building C expected to deliver in the summer, according to REBusinessOnline; CRG’s own project page for The Cubes at Etna lists Buildings B and C as delivering in the first quarter of 2027.
Building B is designed for large-scale distribution and heavy industrial work. According to REBusinessOnline, it will feature a clear height of 40 feet, 141 dock doors, four drive-in doors, 185-foot truck courts, 50-by-54-foot column spacing, 4,000-amp power service, 397 vehicle parking spaces and 219 trailer parking stalls. CRG’s project page describes Building B as a cross-dock facility on about 37.4 acres, measuring 1,316 feet by 570 feet.
Building C is smaller and configured differently. REBusinessOnline reported it will feature a clear height of 32 feet, 30 dock doors, two drive-in doors, a 185-foot truck court, 50-by-54-foot column spacing, a 60-foot speed bay, 174 vehicle parking spaces and 63 trailer parking stalls. CRG’s project page describes it as a rear-load facility on 10.28 acres. Both buildings, located near I-70, are supported by a 15-year, 100 percent tax abatement, according to REBusinessOnline and CRG.
Both buildings are being developed in partnership with an affiliate of CRG’s capital partner, LXP Industrial Trust, REBusinessOnline reported. LJC Design & Engineering is the architect and Contegra Construction is general contractor. Joe Kimener and Beau Taggart of KBC Advisors represented CRG in the Building B lease, while Niall Travers and Joe Davis of JLL represented Omega Morgan, according to REBusinessOnline. KBC Advisors is also marketing Building C and the park’s remaining build-to-suit site.
The Cubes at Etna has been building out for most of a decade. The campus occupies 305 acres that CRG and LXP acquired in 2018, according to Commercial Property Executive’s earlier reporting on the park. Its first major development was a 1.2 million-square-foot build-to-suit fulfillment center for retailer Kohl’s, which came online in 2020. Building E, at 1,074,840 square feet, was completed and later leased, and Building D, at 250,020 square feet, was completed in January 2024 and fully leased to Omega Morgan later that year.
With Buildings B and C under construction, CRG’s project page puts the total park at about 3.7 million square feet across six buildings — Buildings A, D and E listed as leased and Building F listed as available. That scale places The Cubes at Etna among the largest single industrial parks in the Columbus market, along an I-70 corridor in Licking County that has steadily added distribution space as the region has grown eastward.
Location is a central part of the pitch for the site. CRG’s project page says the park sits along I-70, 19 miles from downtown Columbus, 18 miles from John Glenn Columbus International Airport and 20 miles from Rickenbacker International Airport. The developer says the site draws from a labor pool of 1.28 million people within a 30-minute drive and more than 2 million within 45 minutes, and offers single-day truck reach to more than 165 million people within an 11-hour drive.
What we know — and what we’re still waiting on: Confirmed are the groundbreaking, both buildings’ sizes and specifications, the tax abatement, the project team, and Omega Morgan’s full lease of Building B, reported by REBusinessOnline and corroborated by CRG’s project page. Not announced in either source is a jobs figure, a tenant for speculative Building C, or a delivery date more specific than 2027 — any such claims circulating elsewhere should be treated as unconfirmed until the companies announce them.
For Licking County residents, the immediate impact is construction at a park already familiar at the I-70 and State Route 310 interchange, followed by expanded operations from a tenant already on site. Because Omega Morgan is expanding from Building D, the growth is anchored by a company with an existing local operation, while Building C’s speculative construction is the developer’s bet that demand for industrial space east of Columbus will still be there when it is finished.
What happens next is construction through 2027. Contegra will build both buildings, KBC Advisors will keep marketing Building C and the remaining build-to-suit site, and Omega Morgan’s expansion will take shape as Building B is completed. NewsForce247 will follow for a Building C tenant announcement, any jobs details, and confirmation of the 2027 delivery dates.