Posts By: WCRE

Giant Co. opens automated fulfillment center outfitted with 69 robots in Philadelphia

Giant Co. has opened a 124,000-square-foot automated fulfillment center in the Eastwick section of Philadelphia and will use it as a test pilot for future facilities.  Giant’s parent company, Ahold Delhaize, is exploring adding similar e-commerce distribution centers across its brands and will monitor the Philadelphia operation for areas that might need adjustment. Regardless of… Read more »

Northeast Philadelphia industrial building trades for $33.5M

A 454,456-square-foot industrial building in Northeast Philadelphia has sold for $33.54 million after attracting a dozen offers. A joint venture between two New York firms, Ajax Advisors and Brickman Associates. The building at 11200 Roosevelt Blvd. sits on 25 acres and was fully occupied at the time of the sale to such tenants as Philadelphia… Read more »

Philabundance leases 130,000-square-foot Roxborough building after Boston brewery backs out

Philabundance, a nonprofit working against food insecurity across the region, has leased a 130,000-square-foot building in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia that will double its food distribution network. The nonprofit signed a deal at 401-415 Domino Lane, a building that had been used by Penn Beer Distributors and where Night Shift Brewing, a Boston-based craft… Read more »

Target leases 331,428-square-foot Upper Merion warehouse built on spec

Target Corp. has leased a 331,428-square-foot warehouse-distribution center in Upper Merion that was built on speculation, according to township officials.  Novaya Foxfield Industrial, an affiliate of Boston-based Novaya Real Estate Ventures, is building the structure at 900 River Road. The project is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Target (NYSE: TGT)… Read more »

Partnership buys 3 industrial buildings off I-95 in Philadelphia for $9.6M

A partnership involving a New York firm and a local investor has picked up three adjacent industrial properties totaling 218,961 square feet in Philadelphia for $9.6 million. Bash Capital and West Chester-based investor Joseph A. Cunane bought 20 Jackson St., a 79,431 square-foot building; 38 Jackson St., a 76,620-square-foot building; and 21 Wolf St., a 62,910-square-foot building…. Read more »

New $42M warehouse at PhilaPort topped off

PhilaPort has topped off a $42 million, 201,621-square-foot distribution center that is under construction at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal.  The milestone means the last piece of steel has been installed in the construction of the building under development at 455 Pattison Ave. in South Philadelphia. Haines & Kibblehouse, a Skippack construction company that has… Read more »