Now, however, a tower facility is proposed to change the landscape and expand available square footage by about 25%. Those plans would have largely replicated what the public is used to at Boxwood, where a single-story General Motors plant covered some 3 million square feet for decades. Harvey Hanna had proposed building two single-story buildings roughly 1.1 million square feet and 1.3 million square feet each, along with secondary 350,000- and 310,000-square-foot buildings. It’s a departure from the plan first announced by Harvey Hanna & Associates, which purchased the 142-acre property in 2017 before selling about 88 acres to Dermody this month for about $21.6 million. At 3.8 million square feet, it would also be among the largest multistory projects built. The distribution center will only cover a footprint of roughly 800,000 square feet of space, with the remaining 3 million square feet of space found in its top four stories.Īlthough Dermody is not seeking a variance to the county’s 90-foot height limit for the heavy industrial zone, the plan would make the LogistiCenter project perhaps the American distribution center with the most floors, as existing or announced projects have typically topped out at four floors. The engineering firm for the project, Langan Engineering, also designed a four-story, 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center for Amazon near Denver that opened last year. DBT PHOTO BY JACOB OWENSĭermody, Harvey Hanna & Associates, and the New Castle County Department of Economic Development all declined to comment about a potential tenant for the Boxwood project, but Dermody does have an existing relationship with Amazon, having built two facilities that the e-commerce giant now leases. The LogistiCenter at I-95 Wilmington will be a first for the First State as a five-story distribution center.
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