NEW YORK CITY-FedEx Ground will close its Maspeth distribution center and move to a new 140,000-square-foot facility in Long Island City by spring 2013, company officials told the New York Daily News. The plant, estimated to cost $56 million, will be located on Borden Avenue—the very same block FreshDirect decided to vacate for space at Harlem River Yards in the Bronx.
The move is being driven by the company’s decision to expand its business-to-business shipping operations on a nationwide basis, a FedEx spokesman told the News. In addition, access to major highways, bridges, tunnels and customer distribution centers also played a role in the relocation from central Queens to the borough’s Northern end.
Sources told the News that the project will developed by Charlotte-based SunCap Property Group LLC, which will own the property in a partnership with Manhattan-based REIT Lexington Realty Trust. Ronkonkoma, NY-based Aurora Contractors will build the facility.
Queens Borough President Helen Marhsall says in an e-mailed statement to GlobeSt.com that the new site is “much more appropriate” for manufacturing and industrial usage.
“No public land use procedure is necessary,” she says. “The zoning already allows such a facility. I am also hopeful that FedEx new location will also boost local businesses hurt by Fresh Direct’s relocation to the Bronx.”
FedEx is the latest in a string of many companies moving to Long Island City. GlobeSt.com previously reported that JetBlue is moving their world headquarters to 27-01 Queens Plaza North, while CUNY Law School has purchased six floors in Two Court Square adjacent to the Citigroup tower.
A spokeperson for FedEx did not return a phone call to GlobeSt.com for this article.
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