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WEST BRIDGEWATER, MA-This south suburban Boston community has been selected by Federal Express as the new home for a regional distribution center, as the global delivery firm will lease some 90,000 sf of industrial space at One United Dr. The relocation from neighboring Brockton represents a doubling in size for the company's special FedEx Ground operation.

"We have signed a top-tier tenant in FedEx Ground, which saw the significant benefits of locating to this facility," says Mohsin Amiji, CEO of the Liberty Cos. Amiji's Boston-based real estate investment firm acquired the 315,000-sf One United Dr. in March 2006 for $11.9 million, and has set about repositioning it as a multi-tenanted complex. One United Dr. had been occupied for several years by United Liquors before that firm's relocation.

Prior to the FedEx pact, SWB New England leased 80,000 sf at the property, leaving about 145,000 sf to be filled. Richards Barry Joyce & Partners is exclusive leasing agent for One United Dr., and brokers John Lashar, Paul Leone and Cal Hudak represented Liberty in the FedEx agreement. Agents for the tenant were Tom Byrd and Joe Pelle of Fischer & Co.