Real Estate
Best-in-Class Warehouse Development & Utilization Services
Warehouse development and ownership provides powerful stability to certain manufacturers and retailers. It certainly does for Woods as a distributor. A fully-optimized warehouse requires both depth of expertise and significant capital, tailored to your core business strategy. Woods’ Development & Utilization teams exist to serve customers for whom Build-to-Suit development and Takeover-In-Place management makes sense.
Build-to-Suit Development
Purpose-Built for America’s Supply Chain Future
Our custom development solutions include build-to-suit facilities, industrial parks, and specialized warehouses designed for tomorrow’s supply chain demands. Our end-to-end real estate platform combines deep industry expertise with practical operational knowledge. We deliver strategic site selection powered by comprehensive market analysis, labor evaluation, and infrastructure assessment.
Our construction management maintains relentless pursuit of excellence with facility designs optimized for operational efficiency with flexible configuration. As both developer and operator, we ensure every facility meets operational demands while anticipating future needs, focusing on workflow design, automation capabilities, and employee safety.
We provide flexible leasing options including long-term leases, sale-leaseback arrangements, and build-to-suit opportunities with expansion possibilities. Our project management excellence ensures seamless delivery from concept to completion through rigorous timeline management, quality assurance, and risk mitigation.
Takeover-In-Place Services
Immediate Optimization of Your Existing Facilities
Woods’ Takeover-In-Place program delivers immediate supply chain improvements with minimal disruption. In today’s challenging economic environment, your existing warehouses represent both significant expense and strategic opportunity. Our teams can assume responsibility for existing facilities, transform operations, and deliver rapid results.
Our solution provides rapid execution, immediate performance improvement, reduced balance sheet risk through asset transfer, and enhanced workforce management, all while maintaining capacity for future growth. Woods applies decades of warehouse management expertise to your operations through lean methodology implementation, streamlined processes, and a continuous improvement culture.
After successful implementation, we identify broader improvement opportunities including network rationalization, warehouse consolidation, and inventory optimization to eliminate supply chain waste. In consolidated distribution centers, we deploy cutting-edge technology including advanced material handling systems to enhance reliability and productivity.
Long-Term Stability
Your Trusted Supply Chain Partner
Developing, owning, and controlling our own real estate provides long-term stability to our business, ensuring we can be your enduring supply chain partner. We control our real estate so we can support a healthy distribution business, expand through measured growth into new markets, and address your own real estate needs.
Woods brings peace of mind that whatever your future holds—including M&A, new products, or market expansion—we have the expertise, scale, and technology solutions to support your business goals. Our comprehensive approach delivers immediate improvements while positioning your business for continued supply chain optimization and success.
