After paying $11 million last year for Frito-Lay’s Orlando distribution center at 998 N John Young Parkway, New York-based Bridge Logistics Properties has filed plans to demolish the warehouse and replace it with two new buildings, more than tripling the size of the industrial asset.
In June, the Texas-based snack giant sold the nearly 47 acres at the corner of JYP and WD Judge Drive but continued to lease its 72,000-square-foot warehouse. Months later, Frito-Lay shuttered its nearby Silver Star plant and a smaller facility at its smaller facility at 2000 Parks Oaks Ave., laying off 500 employees. The company demolished the Silver Star plant earlier this year, completing the work in April.
Neither Frito-Lay nor its parent company, PepsiCo, has filed a notice with the Florida Department of Commerce of any impending layoffs at the remaining plant. Attempts to reach company officials were unsuccessful.
The recently filed plans from VHB call for two new speculative warehouse buildings on the Frito-Lay site with a combined floor area of 232,380 square feet. They would utilize the existing access points on John Young Parkway and WD Judge Drive. The two buildings would be 43 feet tall and would share a truck court.
The master plan also shows a second phase on the southernmost portion of the property with a 25,300-square-foot building. It would be located across from the rear parking lot of Lotte Market. An undeveloped lot on Ferguson Drive, west of the plant, would serve as stormwater retention and set aside 5 acres for future development for a possible phase 3.
BLP previously sought and received a zoning verification letter from the city to confirm the project would comply with the existing zoning and land use.
“As part of the prior development of the site, substantial conservation easements were dedicated, which provided substantial buffering between the warehouse use and the existing single-family homes located west of the property,” VHB’s James Hoffman wrote. “The proposed project maintains this buffering.”
He added that there would be no wetland impacts, floodplain impacts or waivers from code anticipated for the project.
The master plan is scheduled to go to Orlando’s Municipal Planning Board on June 16.
The site is directly south of the District West apartments, which were built by Crosland Southeast in 2024. Just west of the site, Foundry Commercial developed the Princeton Oaks industrial park, which was sold to two different buyers in 2024 and 2025 for a combined $215 million.
Before its Orlando acquisition, BLP paid $105.25 million for a Frito-Lay distribution center in Brooklyn, New York.
The company is a subsidiary of Bridge Investment Group Holdings, which paid $44.25 million in 2022 for the former Florida Bramingham Inc. property on Old Lake Wilson Road in Osceola County and subsequently developed the Gateway @ 429 logistics center.
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