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 »
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Arden Group forms $800M joint venture to focus on infill industrial investments
In 2018, early in its quest to accumulate a sizable amount of industrial real estate, Arden Group paid $45 million for 12 buildings totaling 607,890 square feet in Bucks County. Since then, Arden has amassed a portfolio of 32 properties totaling 7 million square feet across nine markets and has now parlayed that into an… Read more »
Cap Rates Under 3.5% Emerge in Philadelphia’s Industrial Market for the First Time
Philadelphia’s industrial market continues to break records, with leasing running well ahead of new construction and rent growth of 12% over the past 12 months, ranking it among the fastest of any major market in the United States. But the industrial market’s most notable milestones of the third quarter centered around sales pricing. With the office… 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 »
Faropoint drops $75M to add 19 more buildings to growing Philadelphia-area industrial portfolio
Faropoint, an Israeli real estate company that first entered the Philadelphia market a year ago, has dropped another $75 million to add 19 industrial buildings totaling 904,000 square feet to its growing portfolio of last-mile distribution centers throughout the region. The company last year spent more than $50 million to buy 11 industrial properties between… 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 »
New York firm pays $3.5M for Philadelphia truck terminal as it scours market for more opportunities
A New York real estate firm bought a truck terminal in Philadelphia for $3.5 million, marking the company’s first acquisition in the city as it plans to quickly expand its industrial holdings here. Imperium Capital’s IG Logistics bought 3200 S. 70th St., a four-acre property that had been owned and used by XTL Inc., a… 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 »