Taylorsville-Kearns Warehouse & Industrial Space for Lease

Taylorsville-Kearns is where I send a West Valley requirement that can't carry West Valley pricing. It sits directly west and southwest of West Valley City, 108 buildings across Taylorsville, Kearns, the West Jordan border, and pockets of West Valley City and Magna. The buildings run smaller (median around 15,585 SF against West Valley's 20,150) and the per-foot pricing runs under West Valley on comparable space. Same general product, a step down in size and cost.

One data note before you shop it. The corridor is conventionally filed as "West Murray," an artifact of where the old boundaries got drawn, and almost none of it is actually in Murray. Read it as Taylorsville and Kearns led, with the belt running into the West Jordan border, West Valley City, and Magna.

What space actually rents for here moves month to month, so current availability is on the live listings and a read on your specific requirement is a quick call.

What kind of industrial submarket Taylorsville-Kearns is

Taylorsville-Kearns is the lower-cost alternative to West Valley City proper. Overlapping geography on the borders, structurally different inventory: smaller buildings, fewer institutional landlords, lower per-foot pricing, and a tenant base weighted to SMB distribution, contractors, small wholesalers, and local trades instead of the modern big-box logistics that fills West Valley's western parks.

The stock backs that up. The median building dates to 1992. Class C is about half the 108 buildings, Class B another 40%, and Class A the last 10%, concentrated in newer development on the west and south edges. 73 of the 108 buildings carry neither a dock nor a drive-in, which tells you how much of this is smaller local-service space, not truck-court distribution.

Where people get it wrong is treating West Valley and this corridor as one market. They aren't: West Valley carries deeper inventory, more institutional product, and the modern big-box concentration; Taylorsville-Kearns carries smaller buildings, less institutional capital, and lower pricing per foot. Figuring out which one your requirement belongs in is the whole search.

Why the Taylorsville-Kearns corridor works for SMB and local-trade users

Two things carry it.

Geography. You're west of I-15 and south of I-80, with Bangerter Highway on the west edge and 4700 South, 5400 South, and 6200 South running the corridor east to west. If your customers or your workforce sit in the west-central valley (Taylorsville, Kearns, Magna, the West Jordan and West Valley borders), the geometry works without paying for West Valley institutional product.

Cost. The corridor carries real Class B and a little Class A at footprints that fit SMB distribution and small mid-market operations, priced under comparable West Valley space. If your operation fits 20,000 to 75,000 SF and doesn't need modern big-box specs, the discount is real and it holds.

What's not here: deep modern logistics inventory, large-format institutional boxes, airport access. Those live elsewhere. If you need them, don't force this corridor.

The two building stocks in Taylorsville-Kearns

Two stocks, one much bigger than the other.

1980s through 2000s mid-size. Tilt-up, 15,000 to 50,000 SF, modest dock counts, low-to-mid 20s clear. This is most of the corridor. Class B and C. SMB regional distribution, light manufacturing, contractors, mid-market service.

Modern edge product, 2018 and newer, on the west and south edges where larger parcels were left. Tilt-up, 28 to 32 foot clear, modern docks, 50,000 SF up past 100,000. Class A and high B. This is the small institutional-adjacent slice.

There's also a tail of pre-1980 small-bay in the eastern half, close in character to older Murray and South Salt Lake infill but at lower volume. That older tail is where contractors and small distributors land for their cheapest central-valley address.

Who owns and develops in Taylorsville-Kearns

Ownership is dispersed and private-weighted. A few institutional names hold small footprints (Dalfen Industrial on a handful of buildings, Salt Lake County as a public holder), but there's no Boyd Enterprises or Harrison Properties dominating the count the way there is in West Valley. Most of the leaderboard is private investors and operator-owners with a building or two.

Development is a slow, steady drip on the parcels left along the west and south edges, Layton Properties among the active names. Slower than West Valley or the Airport, more consistent than older central-valley submarkets like Murray or South Salt Lake.

For a tenant, the person across the table is usually a private operator or smaller holder, not an institution, which changes how you make an ask. For an investor, the bid pool skews private and SMB-institutional; the national logistics REITs aren't working this corridor at West Valley intensity.

How new supply gets delivered in Taylorsville-Kearns

Supply comes in small amounts on the parcels left along the western edge near Bangerter and the southern edge toward the West Jordan line. The pace is steady, the volume low. The limit is land: unlike Bluffdale, which still has real acreage, Taylorsville-Kearns has mostly filled in.

It'll keep delivering modest new product in small batches, which means one or two deliveries can move the available pool a lot. If you're timing a modern-spec requirement, know what's under construction before you commit.

Taylorsville-Kearns industrial product types compared

What I'd tell you before you lease or buy in Taylorsville-Kearns

Tenants: this is the answer when West Valley pricing or profile doesn't fit and you can live with thinner inventory. SMB distribution, mid-market 3PL that doesn't need the biggest specs, contractors, small wholesalers, and local-trade users usually land on better cost here than next door. The trade is a longer search when your spec is specific, because there's simply less of everything.

Owners: your edge is price against West Valley, so don't price like West Valley. Lean on the cost gap on comparable product. On the small Class A stock, position against West Valley Class A but be honest about the step-down on access and visibility.

Investors: pricing here tracks West Valley at a discount on like product, so your cap rate depends on which tier you're buying. Modern Class A on the west and south edges draws institutional capital and prices near West Valley; the older mid-size and small-bay stock trades to private buyers and operator-owners at a wider spread, and financing costs move both. Give me the building and I'll tell you where it prices against West Valley today. Call me.

Common questions about Taylorsville-Kearns industrial

How does Taylorsville-Kearns rent compare to other Salt Lake submarkets? Below the metro blend, and meaningfully below West Valley on like product. The modern Class A prices closer to West Valley but still at a discount; the older mid-size and small-bay runs well under the blend. What's open here is on the live listings, or call me with the requirement.

What clear heights will I find in Taylorsville-Kearns? The modern west and south edge product runs 28 to 32 feet. The 1980s through 2000s mid-size runs 20 to 26. Older eastern infill runs 14 to 22. A typical building sits in the mid-20s.

What kind of operations is Taylorsville-Kearns good for? SMB regional distribution, mid-market 3PL that doesn't need the biggest boxes, contractors and trades serving the west-central valley, small wholesalers, and local distribution. It's built for real industrial specs at SMB pricing and footprints. For airport freight or large-format institutional logistics, look at the Airport or California Avenue's west half. For the biggest modern boxes, West Valley or West Jordan run deeper.

What size spaces does Taylorsville-Kearns have? The full range, concentrated 15,000 to 75,000 SF. It thins out under 5,000 and over 100,000 next to the bigger submarkets. The median building runs about 15,585 SF.

How does Taylorsville-Kearns compare to West Valley, West Jordan, and Murray? West Valley is the northern and eastern neighbor, deeper at every tier with more modern big-box and institutional ownership; this corridor is the lower-cost SMB alternative right beside it. West Jordan sits south with newer product at higher pricing for modern SMB-to-mid-market distribution. Murray sits east, older small-bay infill at similar pricing but a different address. See all Salt Lake Valley submarkets.

What does Taylorsville-Kearns space cost to lease or buy? It's a comparison against West Valley more than against any blended number. For a given bay size and condition, this corridor runs under comparable West Valley space a few minutes east, which is the whole reason to be here, and the specific building sets how wide that gap runs. Tell me the requirement and I'll tell you where it comes in, plus what's open here: current listings or run the numbers with me.

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Have a requirement or a building in the Taylorsville or Kearns corridor? Call me and I'll tell you what it's worth here and what the same building costs in West Valley. Contact Colter

Colter Smith, CRES Utah · saltlakewarehouses.com