PHILADELPHIA—The Davis Cos. and Advance Realty have completed extensive capital improvements at 2750 Morris Rd., a 675,000-square-foot property in Lansdale, PA. Located just nine miles northwest of Philadelphia, the property, a former Ford Motor Co. electronics assembly plant, offers 375,756 square feet of climate-controlled technology, warehouse, assembly and production space, and 70,442 square feet of office space, all with a heavily redundant power and climate infrastructure that one of the partners describes as “hardened.”
Over an 18-month period after purchasing the property in August 2014, TDC and Advance Realty installed new building systems, a new roof and upgrades to common areas, new lighting, landscaping, parking, circulation and exterior wayfinding signage throughout the entire complex.
“It was a build-to-suit for Ford Motor Co.,” Davis SVP of asset management Mark Bush tells GlobeSt.com exclusively. “So we brought some of those HVAC systems up to date which were circa 1989, and a new roof. We've really brought the common areas up to a more office environment, vs. a straight manufacturing facility.”
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