What’s that gonna be ... at the old National Semiconductor site?

From the rubble of the razed National Semiconductor facility at 1111 W. Bardin Road, just south of Interstate 20, has sprung two colossal industrial buildings that are nearly ready for tenants.

A third building of the same size — 420,000 square feet — is on the drawing board. The timing of its construction will depend on the real estate market and how quickly the first two buildings reel in tenants, said development co-owner Eric Langford of Dallas-based Langford Property Co.

Construction on the first two buildings slowed a bit during heavy spring rains, he said. “But we plan to finish both buildings by the end of September. And we feel confident about the market.”

Langford said he and co-owner Brian Flaherty, owner of Flaherty Development in Southlake, hope to sign their first tenant to one of the buildings next week.

Langford declined to name the prospect, but it surely won’t generate the public excitement that a trendy steakhouse would. No, this is prime industrial space, he said.

Tenants might include parts suppliers to the General Motors plant in Arlington, he said. “Anybody from a furniture company to someone using the [city] airport” — just a mile and a half to the east.

The site fronts on Bardin’s north side, where Sport Center Drive juts north from its intersection with Bardin and feeds into the buildings’ parking lots.

The industrial project makes efficient use of the site, fitting all three same-size buildings onto the 71-acre property that National Semiconductor used for its two-story, 441,362-square-foot chipmaking facility, which was razed to make room for the development.

National Semiconductor closed the factory in 2010, and the property has been vacant since. Dallas-based Texas Instruments acquired the site in 2012 when it purchased National Semiconductor.

A state regulatory filing last year listed Flaherty as the owner under the name CPF Bardin Jv LP and said the company planned to start construction on a $30 million warehouse project called Bardin Road Warehouse.

Langford said the market for infill industrial sites is healthy. The development is surrounded by industrial and commercial uses to its west, north and east. Across Bardin to the south are the playing fields of Harold Patterson Sports Center; a residential neighborhood sits to the southeast.

This report includes material from the Star-Telegram archives.

This story was originally published September 1, 2016 at 11:13 AM with the headline "What’s that gonna be ... at the old National Semiconductor site?."