Camp Howze is a 489-acre master-planned industrial rail park on the BNSF mainline in Gainesville, Texas. Build-to-suit facilities from 50,000 to more than 1,000,000 square feet, for lease or purchase.
Camp Howze brings together the three things large-format industrial users rarely find in one place: scale, rail, and readiness. Up to seven million square feet of heavy-industrial development sits cleared, entitled, and engineered on 489 acres directly off Interstate 35.
Select a building to see its site area and footprint. Configurations can be modified to fit a tenant requirement.
Part of BNSF’s Certified Sites program, Camp Howze is immediately ready for rail served development in partnership with BNSF. View BNSF Certified Sites →
Twice-weekly rail service is expected to commence in the second quarter of 2027, scalable to three times per week or more as demand dictates.
A proposed 30-plus-acre rail-to-truck and truck-to-rail transload yard with a 200,000 SF freight forwarding facility. Transload services available within a 50-mile radius.
Via Rail Engineering coordinates the design and construction of each customer's rail infrastructure and the BNSF New Business Review.
The diligence is done. Flat, cleared land with surveys complete and fast-track permitting in place, so tenants can move straight to vertical construction.
Ready for development
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By City of Gainesville
Cooke County, federally designated
Camp Howze qualifies for two of the most significant federal economic-development programs available to industrial projects.
The site sits within a federally designated underserved census tract (Tract 48097000400), qualifying the development for New Markets Tax Credits administered by the CDFI Fund of the US Treasury.
The program creates a 39% tax credit utilized over a seven-year period. The credit is monetized on the front end, so its value is usable on day one of the investment.
Located within a designated Federal Opportunity Zone, the site offers capital-gains deferral and the potential for tax-free appreciation when held long term.
Together with the NMTC program, these incentives enhance overall investment returns while supporting long-term economic growth in Cooke County.
Capital investment, in an underserved area, creating community benefit through jobs.