International nutrition firm expands its property footprint in Allen

A global nutritional products firm has bought property in Allen to expand its area holdings.

Omnilife Group, a Mexico-based nutritional products and supplement firm, more than a year ago picked the 14-acre Prodigy Park project on State Highway 121 near Watters Road as the site of its new U.S. operation.

Plano-based Heady Investments is building the business park with an 80,000-square-foot building for Omnilife. The company announced plans to house as many as 140 workers in the office and showroom building located on almost eight acres.

Now Omnilife has purchased an additional 5.75 acres in the business park from Heady Investments.

The developer plans to build a 76,300-square-foot speculative office and industrial building in the industrial park that Omnilife will also own and Heady is leasing.

Construction on both buildings is expected to begin in 90 days. 5G Industrial is the architect for the project and Structure Tone is the general contractor.

“We’ve gotten over 20 calls from brokers and users wanting 60,000 to 100,000 square feet as there are no other options in the greater North Dallas market,” said Heady Investments’ Sayres Heady.

Omnilife hopes to be in its new office by the end of the year.

The more than 30-year-old Mexican company develops, manufactures and markets nutritional foods, drinks, dietary supplements and beauty care products in the United States, Mexico and Central and South America.

Heady Investments is one of the Dallas area’s most experienced commercial developers with a track record of building offices in Plano, Frisco, McKinney and Allen.