Ocado Retail, the joint venture with M&S, is to close its 1.2 million ft² customer fulfilment centre (CFC) in Hatfield to coincide with the opening of its new next generation CFC in Luton later this year. The Hatfield Customer Fulfilment Centre known as CFC1 is the oldest site in the Ocado network. It was acquired…
Goodman has reached practical completion on its 93,000ft² high-specification facility at Centrum Logistics Park, Burton-upon-Trent. The building has a Grade A specification with EPCA rating featuring a solar PV system of 100kWp to generate clean energy, LED lighting to improve efficiency, and electric vehicle (EV) charging points and EV infrastructure to enable the next generation…
Developer Goodman has secured planning for a 1.2 million ft² of logistics scheme on its 60-acre site at the former Vauxhall aftersales warehouse in Luton in Bedfordshire. Goodman will regenerate the existing site and take a circular approach to construction, focusing on minimising waste and resources in creating Goodman London Luton. The development is targeting…
IM Properties is speculatively developing a new 340,000ft2 warehouse at its Hinckley Park scheme in the Midlands. Hinckley340 will be built as Net Zero Ready on the final 18 -acre phase of the scheme alongside two other units of 47,000ft2 and 60,000ft2. It will be net zero in construction and will be optimised to allow…
Premium ingredients supplier Albion Fine Foods has signed a lease with Goodman for a 138,062ft2 sustainable distribution facility at Crossways Commercial Park in Dartford, Kent. A subsidiary of family-owned business Vestey Holdings, Albion Fine Foods supplies chefs in London and the South East with dairy, frozen and dry goods, as well as specialist items from…
Commercial and industrial property group, Goodman, have set out plans to transform Vauxhall after-sales warehouse into 1.2 million ft2 prime sustainable logistics development in Luton, Bedfordshire. The plans for the 60-acre brownfield site will see the existing facilities demolished and redeveloped to provide up to 1.2 million ft2 of space with pre-let opportunities from 200,000ft2….
Global online retailer YesAsia has teamed-up with Geek+ to build YesAsia’s first smart warehouse at Goodman Interlink, one of the world’s tallest warehouse facilities located in Tsing Yi, Hong Kong. This will be the largest number of AMRs deployed in any single Hong Kong e-commerce warehouse. The brand-new YesAsia smart fulfilment centre will be located…
Goodman has broken ground on a 124,038ft2 high-specification industrial and logistics facility in East Horndon, Brentwood. Located just three miles from Junction 29 of the M25, Goodman’s London Brentwood Commercial Park will deliver a new business and employment space, set to boost economic growth in the Borough. From fast access to London and the South East via…
Das Abkommen erweitert die Beschaffungs- und Qualitätsfähigkeiten für den Technologieführer in der Logistikabwicklung. Blume Global, ein führender Anbieter von Technologien für die Beschaffung, Ausführung und Transparenz von Lieferketten, hat heute die Übernahme von LiveSource, einem führenden unternehmensübergreifenden Supply-Chain-Business-Netzwerk für komplexe Hersteller, bekannt gegeben. Das Unternehmen, das Niederlassungen in ganz Nordamerika, Europa und Asien unterhält, bietet…
Real estate developer and investor Goodman has broken ground on a 117,500ft2 warehouse at its 100-acre Andover Business Park for Britain’s oldest wine and spirit merchant, Berry Bros. & Rudd. The bespoke warehouse is set to be the largest fine wine storage facility for private clients in Europe, with the capacity to store more than…
Real estate developer and investor Goodman has achieved carbon neutrality for its global operations – four years ahead of its 2025 target. Charles Crossland, Managing Director for the UK at Goodman, said: “As an organisation, we’re proud to have achieved our global carbon neutrality goal four years ahead of target. “Increasingly, customers require efficient and…
Goodman has broken ground on a 338,267 sq ft speculative big shed at its Purfleet Commercial Park in Essex. The building will consist of 308,710 ft2 of warehouse space, 16,000 ft2 of two storey offices and have 18m clear internal height, a 55m yard depth, 32 dock and four level access doors as well as…
Industrial and logistics developer Goodman has won planning approval for a 106,000 ft2 warehouse at Lyons Park, Coventry in the West Midlands. The building features 12.5m eaves, 50m yard depth, 10 dock-level loading doors and 29 HGV spaces. It has been developed to a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standard and targeting an A-rated EPC, key sustainability features…
Developer Tritax Symmetry, has reached practical completion on the 661,000 sq ft regional distribution centre that is pre let to the Co-operative Group at Symmetry Park Biggleswade. The building is set to become one of the Co-op’s ‘greenest’ UK depots and has a base build built to BREEAM Excellent through Winvic Construction, which remains on…
Goodman has broken ground on 250,000 sq ft of prime distribution and logistics space at Bedford Commercial Park in the South east. The units consisting of 130,000 sq ft, 50,000 sq ft, 40,000 sq ft and 30,000 sq ft respectively, will be available for occupation from Autumn 2021. Nigel Dolan, Development Director at Goodman, said:…
Developer Goodman has won planning permission for the largest warehouse available within the M25 and is targeting the e-commerce grocery sector as it markets the development as a chill store. The property will have a cladding system designed to meet chill-store requirements as well as being able to draw on 4MVA of power. Planning was…
Dubai-based express courier Aramex UK has taken LaSalle Investment Management’s Cargo 777 warehouse in Poyle, Heathrow. The company took the refurbished 80,782 sq ft facility on a 10-year lease Othman Aljeda, regional chief executive for Aramex in Europe, North America and Asia; and acting chief operating officer, said: “The facility will definitely help in supporting…
On the surface, sheds seem to be thriving in the West Midlands, but if you dig a little deeper there are some structural challenges in pairing the right operator with the right space. Liza Helps reports. Availability rose by 61% across all size ranges in the West Midlands by the end of 2019 according to…
Developers and investors are looking further east as pressure on land supply continues, but does it matter? Liza Helps reports. Take up of warehouse space in 2019 surpassed 5 million sq ft in the region, and almost 50% of the figure was Grade A space and there seems to be no let-up in terms of…
Following its acquisition of the Sony’s UK distribution site in Enfield in November last year, investor developer Goodman UK has just launched the 180,000 sq ft plus warehouse in London. The property – rebuilt in 2012 after rioters destroyed the original warehouse in 2011, – is located on Innova Park in Enfield and totals 187,466…
It seems that warehousing in the region can only go from strength to strength, reports Liza Helps, with take up in the East Midlands up to the end of September 2019 above its five-year average according to research by Cushman & Wakefield. Indeed, Robert Taylor, associate partner at DTRE, says: “In terms of numbers the…
Developer Roxhill has secured approval from the Secretary of State for its 5 million sq ft strategic rail freight terminal in Northamptonshire. The application was granted approval yesterday for the development of a Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) together with landscaping, access and other supporting infrastructure works consisting of an intermodal freight terminal including container…
Goodman has launched its 45-acre Bedford Commercial Park, with the 405,000 sq ft Bedford 405 now available for occupation. Bedford 405 is the largest logistics property to come to market in the South East this year. The cross-docked unite has a 15m clear internal height and 18,500 sq ft of office space. The building meets…
Die 52.000 Quadratmeter große Logistikimmobilie von Goodman im Gewerbegebiet Lutterberg bei Kassel ist fertiggestellt. Damit hat Goodman bereits drei Monate vor Fertigstellung die Vollvermietung des Objekts erzielt. Die Friedrich Zufall GmbH & Co. KG hat „Unit 5“ mit einer Größe von 8.800 Quadratmeter angemietet. Das weltweit tätige Familienunternehmen beschäftigt mehr als 2.000 Mitarbeiter an zehn…
Goodman und Amazon fügen ihrer Zusammenarbeit ein weiteres Kapitel hinzu: Der Logistikkonzern errichtet in Bremen eine neue Immobilie für den führenden Versandhändler. Im Güterverkehrszentrum (GVZ) entstehen auf einem Gelände von etwa 38.000 Quadratmetern eine rund 12.500 Quadratmeter große Logistikanlage sowie ein mehrstöckiges Parkhaus. Das Verteilzentrum in Bremen wird voraussichtlich im Herbst 2019 fertiggestellt sein. Im…
Goodman is building a 12,500 sq m logistics centre for Amazon on a 38,000 sq m site in the Bremen freight village, with a multi-storey car park for 277 delivery vans. Bernd Gschaider, director of Amazon Logistics in Germany, said: “We are very pleased to open a distribution centre in Bremen. More than 20 years…
Die B+S GmbH Logistik und Dienstleistungen baut ihre Präsenz im Bremer Güterverkehrszentrum (GVZ) weiter aus. Dafür errichtet Goodman einen neuen rund 30.000 Quadratmeter großen Logistikkomplex, den Goodman so entwickelt, dass er flexibel in drei gleich große Einheiten unterteilt werden kann. B+S zieht als erster Mietern in diese Immobilie ein. Die Grundsteinlegung findet am 28. März…
Bayernhafen baute auch 2018 an seinen Standorten Aschaffenburg, Bamberg, Nürnberg, Roth, Regensburg und Passau die Hafen-Infrastruktur konsequent weiter aus. So stieß Bayernhafen – nach Investitionen von 30 Millionen Euro im Jahr 2017 – im Jahr 2018 noch einmal Investitionen in Höhe von 26 Millionen Euro an. Damit macht Bayernhafen seine Infrastruktur noch effizienter und gibt…
Die Real Digital Fulfillment GmbH, einer der größten Multichannel-Logistik-Dienstleister in Deutschland, eröffnet eine neue, 12.000 Quadratmeter große Logistikimmobilie im Gewerbegebiet Lutterberg bei Kassel. Damit ist Real Digital der erste Mieter des insgesamt 20.800 Qadratmeter großen Logistikzentrums, das momentan von Goodman spekulativ entwickelt und voraussichtlich im Juni dieses Jahres fertiggestellt wird. Innerhalb des Gebäudes bietet Goodman…
Goodman has acquired a 9.5 acre site in Park Royal in London as part of its strategy to, develop industrial properties in infill locations close to consumers. Managing director Charles Crossland said: “Infill locations such as Park Royal are experiencing strong demand from our customers. This trend is consistent across Goodman’s global footprint and continues…
