Regional map: Winnie sits on I-10 between Houston and Beaumont / Port Arthur on the upper Texas Gulf Coast, with SH-73 running southeast to Port Arthur

North Star Group · iVerify · screening-stage opportunity

Winnie I-10 × SH-73 Outdoor Storage Opportunity

Secured truck parking, trailer staging, and contractor laydown at the I-10 / SH-73 split — serving Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Gulf Coast industrial traffic.

The analysis on this page comes from iVerify — North Star Group’s patent-pending site-screening and reporting engine, which turns corridor, parcel, flood, soil, elevation, traffic, and logistics data into one shareable site report. The full screen behind this page is the iVerify report for this node.

Current stage

Phase 1 · current
Market validation
Confirm the I-10 × SH-73 / SH-124 wye is strong enough to justify site control — operator and broker calls, rate and occupancy validation, parcel screen, proforma refresh.
No construction or site-control capital requested.
Phase 2 · next
Site control + diligence
After the preferred parcel and ownership path are identified: option/PSA, title and legal, survey, geotech, civil ROM, and zoning, access, and utility confirmation.
Sized to the selected parcel.
Phase 3 · later
Development / operator / exit
Construction, JV, sale, lease, or operator structure — only after market, parcel, soils, grading, rate, occupancy, and operator interest survive validation.
To be determined.

North Star Group · iVerify · pre-validation screening

What this screen examines

This is a screening-stage opportunity, not a closed deal. The value case depends on proving rate, occupancy, site control, access, drainage cost, soils, permitted use, and operator demand.

Why this location matters

I-10 traffic38,283 vehicles/day
SH-73 traffic14,505 vehicles/day
SH-124 traffic12,920 vehicles/day
Beaumont–Port Arthur freight anchor~23.8 mi from the AOI
Active carriers within ~30 mi1,552
Power units / trailers5,437 / 3,409 (3,027 owned)
Public truck parking within ~100 mi76 spaces (FHWA / Jason’s Law)

Source: iVerify Report 7. The corridor is active; the open question is whether a secured, paid yard at Winnie captures enough rate and overnight fill to clear the 12% basis screen.

The structure is a screen, not a forecast: a deal is underwritten toward a 12% stabilized yield on all-in cost, and one that lands close to it still clears on judgment. The stabilized yard then sells at a market cap. This is a tertiary node, so the defensible screening band is an 8.5–9.5% exit, with a tighter 7% treated only as post-stabilization upside; the gross gain — sale value less all-in cost — is set out in Deal Economics as a range, not a point.

The worked example is one ~15-acre parcel on I-10, used to illustrate the method and drive a layout — not a parcel NSG controls or has selected (details under Example Parcel). It sits within a ~2,000-acre, 80-tract screen. The first move is validating demand and a permitted truck route in and out; nothing is committed before site control.

Development thesis

An existing freight node

Winnie is not an abstract map opportunity. It sits at the I-10 × SH-73 / SH-124 wye — SH-73 is the route into the Port Arthur and Beaumont refinery and LNG corridor — with existing truck-service activity at the exit and available land near the interchange.

The thesis is a pricing gap. Industrial demand and pricing are established 25–40 miles east/southeast in the Beaumont–Port Arthur core, where the priced inventory clusters; land at the Winnie wye carries a lower cost by comparison. Winnie is the lower-cost staging, parking, and laydown point feeding that market — close enough to serve it, at a low enough cost to leave room for improvement margin. That is why the node itself still has to be confirmed, even with the corridor comps in hand.

Schematic corridor map of the Winnie wye against the Beaumont-Port Arthur demand core
The corridor, schematically — the Winnie wye against the Beaumont–Port Arthur demand core 25–40 miles east/southeast. A schematic, not a satellite map.
This is not a frontage play. The deal can be greenfield — what it needs is reasonable proximity to the I-10 corridor and the Beaumont–Port Arthur demand, not a highway edge. The drivers are location, access, visibility, economics, demographics, and site conditions; the value is created by the secured yard’s own paying users, not simply the highway frontage. At the wye, frontage can even be a liability: TxDOT may deny a new curb cut that close to the interchange. Frontage leads only for the conditional travel-plaza use, where visibility and fuel-brand economics drive it.

Demand evidence

Corridor, comps, and existing stops

The case rests on three reads — corridor volume, established down-corridor pricing, and the truck-service activity already at the exit. The comps support the use type; they do not by themselves validate Winnie-specific demand, which is what makes the node a screen rather than a settled answer.

Corridor volume (TxDOT, 2024)

RoadAverage daily traffic
I-1038,283
SH-7314,505
SH-12412,920
FM-16638,245

I-10 volume is ample for a parking and services use. The count does not give the truck share or whether the frontage carries permitted access — the two figures that bear most on a parking use, and both validation items.

The product trades — 25–40 miles east/southeast

Industrial space leases actively across the Beaumont–Port Arthur market: roughly $0.55–$9 per square foot a year in Beaumont (about $5 on average) and $7–$10 in Port Arthur. The sharpest signal is on SH-73 itself, where a developer recently built two 7,500-square-foot warehouses and is marketing them to petrochemical-support vendors at $10/sqft, triple-net — top of the band, on the exact corridor this site feeds. Secured-yard product trades too: a Beaumont industrial-outdoor-storage property is listed at an 8.41% cap, and a Port Arthur outdoor-storage site carries a 15-year net lease.

The catch is geography: almost all the priced inventory clusters 25–40 miles east/southeast in the Beaumont–Port Arthur core, not at the Winnie wye. That pricing gap is what the thesis rests on — the priced product sits down-corridor, not at the wye.

Parking at and near the node

The supply at the wye is free and first-come; the paid, secured, reservable product modeled here shows up in the corridor only at the metro ends.

Stop / lotOn the corridorRead
JP Truck Stop — Winnieat the wye~10 truck spaces, free
Bingo Travel Plaza — Winnieat the wye~20–25 spaces, free
Cowboy Travel Plaza — Hamshire~6 mi Elarge lot, 24/7, free
TxDOT Rest Area 814 — Hankamer~10 mi Wpublic truck parking, free
Love’s #696 — Cheek~15 mi NE115 spaces, free first-come
Petro #304 — Beaumont~20 mi NE275 spaces, Reserve-It reserved (paid)
Paid lots — Houston metro~50 mi W$10–$20/24-hr and a gated monthly secured yard

Willingness-to-pay for secured parking is established at both metro ends — reserved spaces at the Beaumont Petro, $10–$20/24-hr and a gated monthly yard in the Houston metro — but no paid, reservable product sits at the wye itself. Whether overnight peak demand is already spilling past the free supply, which is what a bookable yard would capture, is the load-bearing validation item — alongside the truck share of the I-10 count and the achievable rate. The corridor establishes the rate band; the rate at this node is still to be confirmed.

Carrier demand near the node

The iVerify screen finds about 1,552 active carriers within ~30 miles — roughly 5,437 power units and 3,409 trailers. The owned trailers are the direct read: trailers that have to sit somewhere are parking demand, and they cluster in the Baytown–Beaumont–Port Arthur band this node sits between. It is a representative sample, not a full demand verification.

iVerify carrier-demand capture: carrier map and top fleets by trailer count
Carrier-demand capture from the iVerify report — carrier locations and the top fleets by trailer count near the wye. A representative sample, not full demand verification.

Comparable pricing

Where / whatSignal
Beaumont industrial lease~$0.55–$9 /sf/yr, about $5 average
Port Arthur industrial lease$7–$10 /sf/yr
SH-73 new build (two 7,500 sf warehouses)$10 /sf NNN, marketed to petrochem-support vendors — top of band, on this corridor
Beaumont industrial outdoor storageListed at an 8.41% cap
Port Arthur outdoor storage15-year net lease

The priced inventory clusters 25–40 miles east/southeast in the Beaumont–Port Arthur core — the pricing gap the thesis rests on. Comps support the use type, not Winnie-specific demand. iVerify Report 7.

Down-corridor occupancy

Occupancy down-corridor is observable, and it is strong. The two largest stops down-corridor toward Beaumont both read Usually Full on Trucker Path: Love’s Travel Stop #696 (I-10 Exit 843 / Smith Rd, Beaumont — 115 truck spaces, ~15 miles NE) and Petro Beaumont #304 (I-10 Exit 848 / Walden Rd — 275 spaces, ~20 miles NE). Love’s #696 logs Lot is full across weekday evenings (consecutive 8:25–9:43 PM checks) and again overnight (3:25–3:55 AM), easing to Many spots midday. That is real, observable demand — the corridor’s established stops fill. What it does not settle is the wye itself: whether a new secured, paid yard at the node captures enough of that demand to fill at the modeled rate is the validation item — but the down-corridor read is favorable, not speculative.

Love's #696 Beaumont: live status SOME/SOME/FULL/FULL; weekly prediction Usually FullPetro Beaumont #304: weekly prediction Usually Full
The two largest down-corridor stops — Love’s #696 (I-10 Exit 843, Beaumont) and Petro Beaumont #304 — both read Usually Full on Trucker Path. ~15–20 mi NE of the wye.
Love's #696 parking history: Lot is full 8:25, 8:41, 9:34, 9:43 PM Wed; Many spots midday; Some spots early AM
Love’s #696 readings (Trucker Path): full across the Wed-evening checks (8:25–9:43 PM), many spots midday, some spots only at dawn.

Existing stops at the wye

StopWhat is listed
Bingo Travel Plaza (Exit 829)~20–25 truck spaces
JP Truck StopFuel, scale, showers
Love’s — Cheek (~15 mi NE)Nearest Love’s, toward Beaumont (Love’s locator; ~15.3 mi by map)
Winnie hotelsAdvertise truck parking
TruxSpotMarkets secured parking near Winnie

74 truck stops within 100 miles in the iVerify database. Listing-level (Allstays, TruckMap, TruxSpot, Love’s locator), not field-verified: whether they allow long-term trailer storage, their exact counts, and how full they run are open. iVerify Report 7.

Peak workforce at the major Port Arthur and Beaumont facilities within 25-40 miles: ExxonMobil Beaumont ~5,000, Port Arthur LNG ~6,000, Golden Pass LNG ~6,000+
The demand the wye feeds — peak workforce at the down-corridor refineries and LNG builds within 25–40 miles. iVerify Report 7.
Truck-stop network on I-10 from Winnie through Hamshire, Fannett and Cheek to Beaumont; a 3.89-deal stop at the wye and Love's 4.11 at Cheek
The truck-stop network along I-10, Winnie→Beaumont (Trucker Path). Stops line the corridor, including one at the wye itself; the occupancy histories above are the two largest, down-corridor.

An existing freight node

The value here is the industrial corridor SH-73 feeds, not the traffic count alone. Within ~25–40 miles southeast sit Motiva’s Port Arthur refinery (~720,000 bbl/day), ExxonMobil’s Beaumont refinery (~2,700 ac, ~2,000 staff plus ~3,000 contractors), and two LNG megaprojects under construction — Port Arthur LNG (~6,000 construction jobs at peak; Phase 2 added 2025; work into 2030–31) and Golden Pass LNG (6,000+ at peak; Train 1 shipped first cargo April 2026, Trains 2–3 ramping into 2027). That buildout drives sustained heavy-truck movement, contractor fleets, and laydown/staging demand where the corridor meets I-10.

On supply, TxDOT’s 2024 Southeast Texas Truck Parking Action Plan covers this district, where only ~80 of roughly 7,200 regional truck spaces are public, and the department is deploying an I-10 truck-parking availability system. That is a documented corridor constraint, not a measured shortage at Winnie itself — the backdrop is real and large, and points the use toward secured staging more than a generic fuel stop.

Refinery figures: Motiva, ExxonMobil disclosures. LNG schedules: Sempra Port Arthur LNG, Golden Pass LNG. Parking supply: TxDOT 2024 SE Texas Truck Parking Action Plan, FHWA Jason’s Law survey. iVerify Report 7.

Deal economics at a glance

Exits

The yard is built owner-direct and stabilized as a secured truck-and-trailer operation. Once it cash-flows, there are three ways to exit, and the market picks the best one at the time:

ExitWhat you sellWhy it works
1 — Sell the whole assetThe entire stabilized parking-and-staging yard as a single income propertyA fully-leased IOS asset is what an institutional or 1031 buyer wants; cleanest story, and as one asset it can price a little stronger
2 — Carve the entrance padsThe ~5 acres at the lot’s entrance to a fuel/retail/service operator, parking sold separatelyThe full lot has captured the customers; an operator pays a pad premium for access to that captive traffic, on top of the yard’s income value
3 — Sell to a plaza operator (conditional)A parcel at this node that clears the development screen (~25 acres), to a travel-center operator who prices it on the operating business — fuel, food, serviceThe higher exit; it turns on the site’s development fundamentals and is priced on volume, not a cap rate, so it sits outside the gain figure below
~$2.0–3.0M
Gross gain after stabilization = yard income sale (~$1.5–2.6M) + entrance-pad sale (~$0.5M), at a conservative 9% tertiary cap. Before financing carry and disposition cost.

Illustrative planning figures from the validation model, not a projection of return. Values rest on achieving the rate and occupancy below; the exit cap is the market’s call. A point estimate would be false precision — the output is a range.

The whole thing turns on the nightly rate, which is the variable you can actually validate. At a $12–$15/night band and ~70% occupancy — the corridor band, to be validated at this node — the yard clears a 12% return floor on its own, across the entire band, not just at the top:

RateStabilized NOIYield on cost12% floorYard gain @ 9% cap
$12 / night (floor)~$386K14.8%clears~$1.5M
$14 / night (mid)~$451K17.3%clears~$2.2M
$15 / night (top)~$483K18.6%clears~$2.6M

Revenue math (base $14/night): 180 spaces × $14/night × 365 nights × 70% occupancy = ~$644K gross; less 30% operating expense = ~$451K NOI. Sale values are net of a 4% cost of sale.

The demand bar is lower than it looks. At the $14 mid-case the yard clears the 12% floor at ~48% occupancy and breaks even on a 9% sale at ~38%; even at the $12 floor of the band those thresholds are ~57% and ~44%. So the 70% assumption carries meaningful cushion across the band, subject to validating actual demand, surface cost, access, and operating expense. And while the entrance pads wait for an operator, they run as trailer/IOS parking: the held land earns, it does not just carry.

MetricFigureRead
Direct total development cost (yard incl. land)~$2.6MOwner-direct — preferred path; high case ~$3.0M carries clay-soil risk
GC retail cost~$4.5MStress / reference case; weakens economics
Stabilized NOI ($12–$15/night, 70% occ)~$386–483KControlled yard only
Yield on cost~15–19%Clears the 12% floor without any land credit
Yard income value @ 9% cap~$4.1–5.2MExit 1 — NOI ÷ 9% (~$4.3–5.4M) less 4% cost of sale
Yard sale gain~$1.5–2.6MValue less ~$2.6M cost
Entrance pad (5 ac)~$0.5M gainExit 2 — ~$0.6M value less ~$0.14M basis (~$27–30K/ac)
Gross gain after stabilization~$2.0–3.0MYard + entrance pad, before carry

Exits 1 and 2 are income-based — they are what the gain figure above rests on. The third is a development play, and it pencils the way any site does, on the whole screen: location, access, visibility, economics, demographics, competition, and site conditions. The node already carries much of it: a primary I-10 corridor location at the SH-73 wye, and an established Love’s on the corridor — the node already works, with room read for a second operator. Several thousand trucks/day pass the interchange as the demand base (to be confirmed against current TxDOT counts), and the nightly-parked trucks are a captive fueling base in their own right. Where a parcel here also clears the acreage and the rest of that screen, it becomes a candidate for a full travel plaza — the format a Flying J or Triple T runs. An operator buys it and prices the operating business — fuel gallons, inside sales, showers, food — not a cap rate. That is a structurally higher ceiling, set by the volume case and not quantified here, so it sits as upside rather than in the gross-gain range above. Operators want about 25 acres for the full format and will take about 20, so the broker target is a ~25-acre site or assemblage, which also enlarges the yard economics beyond the ~20-acre example modeled here.

The income exits are the floor. Where a parcel at this node clears the development screen, a travel-center operator pricing the business — not a cap rate — is the ceiling.

Known validation items

These are diligence items, not unknowns being glossed — each is a normal validation step behind site control, before material spend:

ItemWhy it matters
Demand (rate × occupancy)The highest-leverage item: confirm the nightly rate and fill that produce the modeled NOI at this node
Access / driveway approvalYard viability depends on a permitted, safe ingress/egress; TxDOT may deny a curb cut near the interchange
Soils / surface sectionWet, shrink-swell clay drives detention, a heavier pavement section, and foundation work — the cost line the soils move
Parcel control & basisThe floor back-solves the most you can pay for land; the deal turns on acquiring at or below it
Zoning / permitted useYard, IOS, fuel, and repair uses can be treated differently; no zoning at the example parcel is a starting point, not a clearance
Operator interestThe plaza-exit case strengthens materially with real operator calls or LOI targets

Order of work

Market first, then control

The first commercial question is not construction and not full diligence spending. It is whether the Winnie wye supports a paid truck-parking, staging, and laydown use at all — and whether a parcel here has a permitted, safe truck route in and out. If that screen survives, the next step is selecting the parcel and ownership path and sizing the site-control and diligence budget around it. The worked example is one illustration, with the broader 80-tract screen giving assembly paths behind it. Control becomes worth funding only once the node, the parcel, and the terms line up.

The first question is the market and the truck route, not the parcel; site control follows the screen, and construction follows control.

Site layout

Conceptual yard on a candidate tract

On a ~5–20 acre candidate tract, the base case is a phased secured truck-and-trailer yard: a stabilized gravel or paved surface, a securable perimeter, safe truck ingress and egress with room to turn, and on-site detention sized for the slow-draining clay — the soils, not the grading, drive cost (see Soils / Grading). Acreage and layout vary by the parcel chosen; this is a screening concept, not an engineered plan.

What separates a paid, bookable yard from the free first-come supply nearby is the product: reservable spaces, perimeter fencing, lighting, cameras and a gated entry, a restroom, and room for a vendor or repair pad — the features a carrier will pay to reserve rather than circle for. Which of these the first phase carries is a validation-stage decision sized to the demand that confirms.

Conceptual secured truck-and-trailer yard layout
Conceptual yard layout on a candidate tract — validation-stage, not an engineered plan.

Cost & fees

Cost, land basis, and structure

At the Winnie wye the site runs two ways. The first is the secured truck-and-trailer yard — the simplest use to validate, modeled to cash-flow on its own, and the base case. The second is a higher-intensity frontage use — the conditional upside set out in Deal Economics, reasonable only where frontage, visibility, and fuel-brand economics line up. Which use is highest-and-best is a validation question, not a claim this page makes.

The all-in cost stacks land (L) + yard improvement (H) + soft/diligence (S) + North Star fees. Because the wet, shrink-swell clay drives on-site detention, a heavier pavement section, and added foundation work, H is the line the soils move — not the grading.

Cost lineRead
Land (L)Back-solved, not assumed — see below. For the ~15-acre illustrative example the basis lands near $26,900/ac; the screen carries lower-cost candidates.
Yard improvement (H)Gravel/paved yard, securable perimeter, truck access and turning, detention. ~$1.15M on a 5-acre worked example — soils-loaded.
Soft / diligence (S)Survey, geotech borings, wetland delineation, permitting. ~$60K on the 5-acre example.
North Star fees2% origination/intelligence (inside cost) + 3% developer on yard hard costs. No disposition fee on the first deal.
Illustrative structure and planning figures, subject to counsel and tax advice; outcomes depend on validation and the market.

Land & tracts

The parcels behind the node

The screen found 80 tracts at 10+ acres totaling about 2,001 acres at the wye — 27 over 20 acres, 7 over 50. The base case wants ~5–20 acres with a clean truck route; the larger tracts are plaza- or laydown-scale, or far upside behind access and flood gating.

Candidate private tracts (~5–20 ac base case)

Owner / tractAcres2025 CAD valueNote
Brown — 44139 I-10~40 (two parcels)$271,370 + $90,000Cleanest private assembly
Thurmon — 44235 I-10~39 (two parcels)$419,740 + $93,650Private
Shujat Holding — 44160 I-1014.7$115,750Private, single parcel
R E E — I-1010.7$350,000Private
Global Acquisitions — I-1015.7$1,107,330Corporate seller

Same-owner holdings that cut the counterparty count on an assembly

OwnerAcres2025 CAD value
Phelan Investments (2 parcels)~159$655,680
Franzen (2 parcels, Broadway)~132$199,110
AMK Real Property (3 parcels)~113$444,360
Sonnier Leon James ET (3 parcels)~104$647,390
Tarina Properties (HWY 73)188$282,634

2025 county appraisal-district values — a screening reference only, not list prices, market value, or acquisition guidance; verify against the appraisal district. The energy-owned I-10 tracts (Yak Mat 47 ac, Papco 25 ac, Ensol 19 ac) sit on frontage but are the harder path; the Brown pair is the clean private alternative.

For the parking base case, rank on truck access and circulation first, then a securable perimeter, usable acreage, drainage and soils, neighbor fit, and owner willingness — with visibility and frontage well down the list. A travel plaza flips that order: frontage, visibility, and fuel-brand economics come first.
iVerify broker parcel-review map of candidate frontage tracts
The broker parcel-review map from the iVerify report — candidate tracts at the wye. A public, unverified parcel layer; field, access, and drainage review remain required.

For illustration

Example parcel

The example is a single, illustrative ~15-acre parcel on Interstate-10 near Winnie, TX 77665, carried at a planning land basis of roughly $26,900/acre — the basis the thesis needs to pencil, not a listed or selected property. There is no real 15-acre site behind it; the round figures are deliberate, used only to illustrate the method and drive a layout. It is not a parcel NSG controls or has selected, not the only candidate, and not acquisition guidance. The broader screen carries lower-cost tracts; the right parcel is the one whose truck route, perimeter, and per-parcel flood line survive diligence.

Candidate tracts (iVerify parcel screen)

Private (non-energy) tracts near the interchange, base-case scale ~5–20 ac:

Owner / locationAcreage2025 CAD value
Brown — 44139 I-10 (2 parcels)~40 ac$271,370 + $90,000 — cleanest private assembly
Thurmon — 44235 I-10 (2 parcels)~39 ac$419,740 + $93,650
Shujat Holding — 44160 I-1014.7 ac$115,750
R E E — I-1010.7 ac$350,000
Global Acquisitions — I-1015.7 ac$1,107,330 (corporate seller)

1,278 parcels across Chambers and Jefferson counties; 80 tracts at 10+ ac total ~2,001 ac (27 over 20 ac, 7 over 50 ac). 2025 county appraisal-district values — screening reference only, not list price, market value, or acquisition guidance; verify against the appraisal district. The full 80-tract priced list is a file. iVerify Report 7.

iVerify Broker Tools parcel review from Report 7: interactive AOI parcel map with flood and tax overlays, a purple review-list parcel at the wye, and a table of three review-list parcels totaling 28.57 acres and $171,590 assessed with band, position, flood-zone and soil columns
The same screen, live — iVerify’s Broker Tools parcel review from Report 7. Every parcel in the AOI carries flood, tax and soil overlays; click any to build a review list and export it. The three here are an example review list (~28.57 ac, $171,590 ROM), not parcels NSG controls or that are listed. The tool nominates nothing; values are appraisal-district ROM, field review still required.

Soils / grading

Flat ground, soil-cost risk

The ground is flat (about 12–31 ft elevation across the samples, ~18 ft of relief), so grading is low-cost. The cost driver is the soil. Federal soil-survey data shows slow-draining, shrink-swell clay, a shallow water table, and likely-wetland ground — Leton and Meaton soils read wet, while Anahuac is the buildable unit. That points to on-site detention, a heavier pavement section, added foundation cost, and a wetland delineation. It is a drainage-and-fill question more than a flood-zone one, and it is general screening only — no soil borings yet.

Flood exposure along the I-10 edge looks low: every point sampled inside the boundary returns Zone X, FEMA’s minimal-risk class, outside the mandatory-insurance zone. The high-risk ground sits to the west and south along the low drainages, off the interchange. But that is a sample, not a clearance — the upper Gulf coast mixes Zone X with AE and VE, so a large tract can straddle more than one, and the per-parcel flood line is a diligence item, not a settled fact.

iVerify flood and soils screen capture
Flood and soils screen from the iVerify report — AOI samples read Zone X, with a high-risk flood zone (SFHA) and regulatory floodway to the west and south; Anahuac is the buildable unit, Leton and Meaton read wet.

Soils

SeriesDrainageHydricScreening read
AnahuacModerately well drainedNoThe buildable unit here
Labelle / Morey / OrcadiaSomewhat poorly drainedNoDetention + fill on the wetter spots
LetonPoorly drainedYesPonds; likely-wetland soil
MeatonSomewhat poorly drainedYesLikely-wetland soil
Pits / WaterNon-soil map units

8 map units across 55 polygons in the AOI. Buildable: Anahuac; wet/likely-wetland: Leton, Meaton. NRCS soil-survey data via iVerify Report 7.

Validation tests before site control

What this screen does not settle, in order:

TestWhy
Permitted, safe truck route in/outTxDOT may not allow a new I-10 curb cut close to the interchange; access can decide the parcel
Per-parcel flood lineAOI samples come back Zone X, but that is a sample, not a clearance across ~2,000 ac
Rate & occupancyComps prove the use; whether a paid yard fills at the wye is unproven
Geotech / soil boringsConfirm detention, pavement, and foundation cost on the chosen parcel
Wetland delineationLeton/Meaton soils flag likely wetlands
Operator interestA user or operator at the modeled rate

Phase 2 · site control + diligence

Control, then diligence

After the market screen survives and a preferred parcel and ownership path are identified, validation spending follows an acceptable option / PSA path. Once the site can be tied up, this budget buys the evidence needed before construction equity is exposed.

ItemWhy it matters
Permitted, safe truck route + curb cutThe highest-leverage item: a clean route in and out from I-10, SH-73, or a connecting road. TxDOT may not permit a new curb cut close to the wye — a non-frontage tract with easy access can be the better candidate.
Per-parcel flood lineZone X at the sampled points is a sample, not a clearance; confirm the line on the chosen tract.
Wetland delineation + soil boringsLikely-wetland soils and shrink-swell clay drive detention, fill, pavement, and foundation cost — the numbers that move the budget.
Drainage / detention designSlow-draining clay and a shallow water table mean on-site detention; geotech sets the section.
Demand confirmationTruck share of the I-10 count, and achievable rate and occupancy at this node — the load-bearing assumption behind the 12% floor.
Owner willingness + titleConfirm the seller path on the chosen tract or assembly; the screen leans toward private (non-energy) owners as the cleaner path.
The candidate advances only if site control, validation, and economics all remain inside the screen.

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Raw dataiVerify output
TxDOT traffic countsCorridor demand signal
Parcels (Chambers / Jefferson)Owner / size / value / geometry review
FEMA floodBuildable-footprint screen
NRCS soilsSoil / grading risk screen
USGS elevationRelief and civil-cost signal
Truck-service inventoryOvernight-stop and service-node signal
Logistics / warehouse layersMarket context (Beaumont–Port Arthur)
Broker toolParcel shortlist and action list

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Traffic

RoadAADT (2024)
Interstate 1038,283
State Highway 7314,505
State Highway 12412,920
FM 16638,245
FM 14064,146

22 count stations and 15 interchange ramps in the AOI (top ramp ~7,269/day). TxDOT 2024 via iVerify Report 7. The count does not give truck share or whether the frontage carries permitted access — both still to validate.

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Full technical screen for this node: traffic, parcels, flood, soils, topo, corridor comps, truck-service context, and the broker tool.

Priced 80-tract list

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Excel validation budget

Direct procurement vs. GC retail, land optionality, economics, and the validation budget — the worked calculation reference, reconciled to the figures in Deal Economics.

iVerify Report

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The live screening report behind this page — parcel, flood, soils, elevation, traffic, and corridor-demand layers with interactive maps.

North Star Group / iVerify

Developer-led method

North Star Group is a developer-led systems and real estate platform focused on practical site origination, development strategy, infrastructure, and applied AI tools. iVerify is North Star’s corridor-screening and parcel-origination system for freight, IOS, truck-service, and logistics-land opportunities.

Michael Hoffman is the principal of North Star Group, Inc. His background includes real estate development, systems integration, and invention work, with issued patents and pending housing / site-screening concepts. The Winnie package reflects a developer-led method: screen the corridor, isolate candidate parcels, identify the demand signal, prepare a validation budget, and advance only if the economics survive real-world checks.

Contact

Michael Hoffman

North Star Group, Inc.
Fairhope, Alabama
701-770-9118
michaelh@nsgia.com
www.nsgia.com

This is a pre-validation screening package. Construction capital, final site control, final engineering, and final operator structure are not being requested at this stage.