North Star

Better market intelligence for logistics development

North Star iPlan: better market intelligence for logistics development. Patent-pending screening, project-specific teams, progressive risk reduction - shown over a watercolor map of a logistics corridor connecting a distribution facility to a metro market.

How North Star Works

North Star develops logistics real estate

We find the market first, assemble the right local team, and reduce risk in stages before major capital is committed. These conversations go straight to Michael Hoffman - 701-770-9118, michaelh@nsgia.com.

Four capabilities behind every project

Market-Led Development

Projects start from documented demand - federally tracked freight deficits, motor-carrier route data, and corridor traffic - not from land already in hand looking for a use.

Technology-Amplified Intelligence

iVerify, North Star's patent-pending screening platform, compares candidate markets and sites using information from fifty outside sources. It supports judgment; it does not replace it or predict returns.

Project-Specific Teams

Each opportunity draws its own land, operating, engineering, construction, public-sector, and capital participants from companies already active in that market, added as the work advances.

Progressive Risk Reduction

Screening, investigation, feasibility, site control, and entitlement are handled in sequence, answering the hard questions in stages before major project capital is committed.

How Projects Succeed

Working with North Star

North Star develops projects with experienced companies in each market. As new opportunities advance, we build the team needed for that particular development.

Current Market Focus

Three logistics markets under active development review

North Star is currently forming teams and advancing opportunities in three logistics markets. Each named project below is one example of the work in that market, not the only site under consideration.

Houston-Golden Triangle

Current example: Winnie, Texas - a market-driven truck-parking site on I-10 in the Golden Triangle. Stage: Active market work. See the Winnie opportunity ›

The Beaumont-Port Arthur basin in iVerify, with ranked truck-parking candidates along the I-10 corridor.

Southern California

Current example: Barstow, California - a logistics-driven shared-relay concept at the I-15/I-40/CA-58 convergence. Stage: Active market work. See the Barstow opportunity ›

Southern California map showing Barstow at the convergence of I-15, I-40, and CA-58, outside the Los Angeles metro delivery area.

Atlanta-Northeast Georgia

A current market and team-building focus along the I-85 corridor northeast of Atlanta. North Star has completed an initial freight-service screen of the Hog Mountain interchange (I-85 & US 129, Jefferson, GA) - a conceptual development thesis, not a controlled site or a completed project. See the market thesis ›

View all current opportunities ›

Development Services

Have a site, market, or logistics idea?

North Star also evaluates opportunities for owners, developers, operators, and investors. North Star will evaluate the opportunity and tell you whether it is worth pursuing, what the principal risks are, and what the next step would cost.

Review development services ›  ·  How North Star screens and evaluates ›

Why North Star

North Star's principals bring 120 Walmart Supercenters - site strategy and development assignments, eleven U.S. patents, and iVerify, the patent-pending national screening platform built and run in-house. About North Star › · Verify the software ›

North Star Group, Inc.

Fairhope, Alabama · 701-770-9118 · michaelh@nsgia.com