Less than a year after buying a 200,000-square-foot industrial building in Croydon, Wharton Equity Partners has landed a new tenant for the vacant property. Jillamy Inc., a third-party logistics company based in Chalfont, toured the building at 2955 State Road and signed a lease eight days later. The company takes occupancy Sept. 8. “It was… Read more »
BG Capital in partnership with FreezPak Logistics plans to develop a new $85 million cold storage facility in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia as part of a broader, $1 billion effort to build a network of cold storage distribution centers across the country. Construction of the Port Richmond building is expected to get underway… Read more »
NFI Industries Inc. will occupy the Quakertown Logistics Center, a newly constructed 264,600-square-foot building just off the Quakertown Interchange of I-476. The process that led NFI to take the space was circuitous but reflects the sometimes fast-changing needs of companies that manage the distribution of products for clients. In July 2020, the Camden-based trucking and… Read more »
Bridge Investment Group of Salt Lake City paid $33.25 million for 11311 Roosevelt Blvd., a 229,459-square-foot warehouse in Philadelphia, according to city property records. It bought the building from Covington Property Partners, a Dallas company that acquired it in February 2021 for $12.5 million. Covington purchased the building through a bankruptcy sale of National Publishing… Read more »
An investment group led by a Connecticut real estate firm has paid $25 million for 1771 Tomlinson Road and 11500 Roosevelt Blvd., two expansive industrial properties in Northeast Philadelphia. With this off-market acquisition, Brickman of Greenwich now controls 960,480 square feet on a total of 54.43 acres across three properties in Northeast Philadelphia that are… Read more »
WCRE is proud to have exclusively represented CE Craft, LLC, in the leasing of 7,000 square feet of warehouse and industrial production space located at the 422 Business Center from Suburban Management Company. CE Craft design, manufacture and distribute custom candles for both end consumers and businesses. CE Craft designs custom scents and creative labels… Read more »
NorthBridge Partners has spent nearly $44 million to add two more industrial properties to its growing footprint in the Philadelphia area. Entities affiliated with the Boston real estate company paid $22 million for 2828 Charter Road, a 248,000-square-foot building on 19 acres in Northeast Philadelphia, and $21.8 million for 1050 Wheeler Way, a 110,000-square-foot building… Read more »
Bridge Industrial plans to build nearly 900,000 square feet of industrial space in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia, continuing an established trend of developers expanding into the city. The Chicago-based developer is scheduled to go before Philadelphia’s Civic Design Review Committee on Feb. 1. Bridge Industrial is proposing 889,312 square feet at 4501 Richmond St…. Read more »
Since 2006, Ward Fitzgerald has overseen the growth of Conshohocken-based Exeter Property Group into EQT Exeter, a global real estate company focused on industrial real estate though it also dabbles in residential, office and life sciences space. The company was formed last year after Exeter Property Group sold to Stockholm private equity firm EQT AB in… Read more »
A South Jersey building used as a distribution center for Rite Aid Corp. and a Bucks County building leased by AstraZeneca is among six Philadelphia-area properties that are part of a 58-building industrial portfolio recapitalized for $423.5 million. Taurus Investment Holdings, a Boston real estate investment firm, owns a portfolio that totals 3.96 million square… Read more »
