The Northshore isn’t one market; it’s a string of them along the I-12 spine. We’re based in Mandeville and work the whole corridor, from the St. Tammany cities in the east to Hammond and Tangipahoa Parish in the west. Being based here is the point — we can walk a building, meet a tenant, or sit down at a closing inside a half-day’s drive, without the out-of-state remove that makes most owners hesitate.
The Northshore industrial picture
Industrial stock on the Northshore clusters where the highways meet. The I-12 runs the length of it, crossing US-190 and Highway 21 around the St. Tammany cities, meeting I-10 and I-59 at Slidell on the eastern end, and joining I-55 at Hammond to the west. Most of the small-bay inventory is older, owner-occupied buildings put up by the contractors, fabricators, and light-manufacturing businesses that have always made up the tenant base here — HVAC and electrical shops, cabinet and sign makers, plumbing supply, and the trades that follow a growing residential population.
That growth is the underlying story. St. Tammany has been one of Louisiana’s steadiest population-gainers for years, and the service trades grow with the rooftops. The result is a deep base of 5,000–25,000 SF buildings owned by people who’ve operated out of them for decades — exactly the off-market, owner-direct buildings we’re looking for, and rarely the kind that ever reach a public listing.
Two Louisiana realities sit underneath every deal here: wind insurance is a real, modeled cost line, not an afterthought, and flood exposure varies parcel by parcel. We underwrite both honestly, and we have a preference for buildings in X flood zones outside the levee-dependent areas. None of that is your problem to solve before we talk — it’s ours to underwrite after.
Submarkets
- Mandeville — our home base, St. Tammany Parish
- Covington — the Highway 21 and I-12 corridor
- Slidell — the eastern Northshore, I-10 and I-12
- Hammond — the I-12 and I-55 junction, Tangipahoa Parish