The 300,000-square-foot facility is being developed by local industrial real estate firm Scannell Properties LLC.
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NewCold said the expanded facility at Lebanon Business Park will be the largest automated cold storage building in the United States.
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MW Cold, a fourth-generation company that operates two large cold-storage facilities in central Indiana, is under new ownership.
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The China-based company said it plans to construct a second, 550,000-square-foot warehouse on its Boone County campus, doubling employment to about 1,400 by the end of 2025.
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Indianapolis-based Rise Commercial District is part of a co-warehousing movement that provides small companies with flexible space as they grow, much like office co-working space does.
During the second quarter, Amazon’s workforce shrank by roughly 100,000 jobs, to 1.52 million, the biggest quarter-to-quarter contraction in the company’s history.
Indianapolis-based Langham Logistics is set to open a 150,000-square-foot warehouse in Whitestown to serve pharmaceutical and biotech companies—and their suppliers—who need cold storage, meaning anything from chilled space to ultra-low-temperature freezers.
Seattle-based Amazon doubled the size of its operations during the pandemic, adding more warehouses and employees. But as the worst of the pandemic eased, it found itself with too much warehouse space and too many workers.
More warehouses and distribution centers have begun popping up near the Interstate 65 exit in Franklin, as central Indiana’s industrial boom continues to fan farther out from Indianapolis.
Indianapolis-based Langham Logistics said the facility will be dedicated to pharmaceutical, vaccine and biologics manufacturing and distribution clients.
Radial, which fills online orders for dozens of retail brands, said it needed the temporary help it pick, sort, pack and ship an upcoming surge in holiday orders.
ITS Logistics LLC announced Tuesday that it plans to invest $11.8 million to establish its first Midwest location, in Whitestown.
South Bend-based Holladay Properties is asking the city of Westfield to grant it a tax abatement to offset the costs of developing three speculative buildings in NorthPoint Industrial Park.
Indiana’s economy should start to recover this year from the damage of COVID-19, but the economy likely won’t fully rebound until late 2022 or early 2023, a Ball State University economist says.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. has pledged $8 million in conditional tax credits to San Francisco-based Stitch Fix, based on its hiring plans.
Investors have poured money into industrial properties in 2020, spending more on U.S. warehouses than office buildings for the first time as social-distancing pushes even more consumers to e-commerce.
The 92,000-square-foot facility, which will handle last-mile delivery for bulky items like grills and patio furniture, is part of the retailer’s $1.7 billion investment in its distribution network.
Warehouse workers say they’ve been under enormous pressure for months, working extended hours to fulfill a crush of pandemic orders. Now they are preparing for an unprecedented surge in demand, as retailers kick off online holiday sales earlier than ever.
The not-for-profit’s central Indiana organization must vacate its current space and hopes to secure 10,000 square feet at another location that could be leased for a nominal fee.
A subcontractor is taking over the facility for Chinese-based appliance maker Haier Group, and current employees are being asked to reapply for their jobs.
The red-hot Indianapolis industrial real estate sector is nearing all-time records in vacancy, construction and absorption, newly-released market reports obtained by IBJ show.
The Plainfield-based company said it spent $1 million on improvements to the 180,000-square-foot, temperature-controlled facility at 2370 Perry Road.
The online retail giant announced plans Monday to make half of all its shipments carbon neutral by 2030.
The retail behemoth will begin paying a minimum wage of $15 per hour in November, but local non-Amazon employers say they have strategies of their own for attracting and retaining workers.
