North American Lighting to take over vacant Farmington Hills office building

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North American Lighting Inc. will occupy this now-vacant 75,000-square-foot office building in Farmington Hills.

A vacant 75,000-square-foot Farmington Hills office building will soon be fully occupied by the local office of 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 Lightings Engineering Research and Development headquarters.

North American Lighting currently has 45,000 square feet of space at 38900 Hills Tech Drive, located north of I-696 and east of Haggerty Road.

The deal closed in mid-December and took about five months to negotiate, said Todd Howley, senior vice president of brokerage services for Farmington Hills-based Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions LLC, which represented the landlord.

Friedmans construction and design team will turn the space into a lighting test lab and research and development office, according to a press release. Friedman Vice President of Construction Jim Parrinello will oversee the project, which is expected to be complete by June.

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 capital investment and create a total of 76 new jobs, according to the MEDC.

The Southfield office of Mohr Partners Inc. represented North American Lighting, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan-based Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Randall Tarnow, the Mohrs managing partner, said the North American will move all of its 220-230 local employees to the new location once construction is complete.

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