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HARRISBURG, PA-Reno, NV-based DP Partners, no stranger to spec-built industrial parks, has brought its one-year-old, 550,184-sf Building F to 93% occupancy. The building is located at its $160-million, 246-acre LogistiCenter at Carlisle, 15 miles west of Harrisburg.

Supplies Network, a division of St. Charles, MO-based Distribution Management Inc., has leased 73,377 sf on a long-term lease estimated by local brokers to be for at least 10 years. Colliers International puts the average rent for warehouse and distribution space in the Philadelphia metro market at $4.75 per sf, up 11.8% from 4.25 per sf in 2005.

The location will serve as the east coast distribution center for the16-year-old, privately owned wholesaler of computer, copier, fax and printer supplies. "Distribution is our core competency, and we needed a location that facilitated one-day and two-day delivery via UPS to our customers on the east coast," explains Rick Goe, vice president of supply-chain management for Supplies Network. The company has other regional hubs in Fresno, CA, Dallas and St. Louis.