Auto lighting supplier to open Farmington Hills office

Originally Published: January 26, 2014 8:00 AMModified: January 26, 2014 7:14 PM

A vacant 75,000-square-foot Farmington Hills office building soon will be fully occupied by the local office of the Paris, Ill.-based automotive lighting supplier North American Lighting Inc.

The 11-year-old building located south of 12 Mile Road and east of Halstead Road has been empty since 2012, when its previous occupant, Henniges Automotive Holdings Inc., relocated to Auburn Hills. It will become North American Lighting's Engineering Research and Development headquarters.

North American Lighting will be moving from 38900 Hills Tech Drive, also in Farmington Hills north of I-696 and east of Haggerty Road.

In December, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced incentives for North American Lighting to expand to the new facility. The project is expected to generate up to $6.8 million in investment and create a total of 76 jobs, the MEDC said.

The real estate companies representing companies in the deal included Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions LLC and the Southfield office of Mohr Partners Inc.

The deal closed in mid-December and took about five months to negotiate, said Todd Hawley, senior vice president of brokerage services for Farmington Hills-based Friedman. Friedman's construction and design team will convert the space, and the work is expected to be complete by June.

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