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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At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the United States have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45 billion expansion of detention centers.
The Indianapolis hunger-relief agency is gaining some much-needed breathing room with a new warehouse space within walking distance of its headquarters at 1121 Southeastern Ave. Second Helpings is set to host a grand opening for the facility Wednesday.
The new center is being paid for through the Midwest Food Bank Indiana’s “Under One Roof” capital campaign, which officially launched in September.
The facility is expected to create at least 400 supply-chain jobs and an additional 375 construction jobs, according to the publishing company.
While robots are not taking over warehouses, experts say, they are making processes faster, safer and easier on the workers.
Founded in 1960, IDS offers fulfillment services and transportation management, shipping 50,000 packages daily.
There are no import surcharges on items that are already available in U.S. warehouses, keeping the prices of those goods generally stable, at least for now.
Leasing by Asia-based logistics firms more than doubled in key U.S. markets last year compared with 2023.
MW Cold, a fourth-generation company that operates two large cold-storage facilities in central Indiana, is under new ownership.
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.
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.
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.
