Dart Group, parent company of Fowler Welch Coolchain, has taken developer SEGRO’s 500,000 sq ft The Hub distribution facility in Heywood Distribution Park, Greater Manchester.
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Homeware retailer Dunelm Mill has secured a 250,000 sq ft building extension with ProLogis at in ProLogis Stoke, Staffordshire.
Hopes are pinned that JD Sports will finally sign on the dotted line for a 616,000 sq ft distribution centre in Rochdale making it the largest deal secured in the region for at least five years.
Internet grocery company Ocado has short listed five sites for its new 400,000 sq ft bespoke RDC including IM Properties Birch Coppice in the West Midlands.
Distribution company Techno Cargo Logistics has taken GE Capital Real Estate’s Denby 242 facility in Derbyshire.
According to King Sturge’s latest Industrial & Distribution Floorspace survey, the supply of new units over 100,000 sq ft shrank by 18 per cent in 2009 while the availability of new space contracted by 8.3 per cent in the six months to December 2009.
Recycling and biomass energy producer Verdo Renewable has taken LaSalle Investment Management’s 100,000 sq ft warehouse facility at Units 1 & 2, Inchyra Road, Grangemouth, Stirlingshire on a 20-year lease at a rent of £355,000 a year.
New developed warehousing space is at its lowest in a decade, according to Gerald Eve’s latest Prime Logistics bulletin.
Budget retailer 99p Stores has secured ProLogis’ DC372 warehouse at ProLogis Park Pineham in Northamptonshire, as its new headquarters and national distribution centre.
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