Two Blackstone Valley warehouses, totalling 2M sq. ft. begin construction, amid Route 146 industrial development bonanza
Rendering | Courtesy RP Masiello
UN1F1ED2's new warehouse is under construction in Sutton
Rendering | Courtesy CRG
The Cubes at Gilboa is a 1.1 million-square-foot development by CRG.
Two massive industrial projects, each approximately 1 million square feet, are beginning construction in Sutton and Douglas, amid high demand for industrial space.
In Douglas, Chicago-based developer CRG is holding a groundbreaking on Monday for its $100-million, 1.1-million square-foot distribution facility at 123 Gilboa St., according to a Thursday press release.
The facility is being constructed by CRG’s parent company Clayco and will feature 40-foot ceilings, 171 docks doors, and four drive-in doors. It is expected to provide approximately 450 permanent jobs.
Leasing for the property will be handled by Newmark, a New York-based real estate giant with offices in Boston.
CRG purchased the property in July for $17.6 million.
In Sutton, Boylston contractor RP Masiello Inc. began construction Monday on two buildings for Sutton’s UN1F1ED2 Global Packaging Corp. The warehouse and manufacturing space features 40-foot ceilings and 160 loading docks, according to a Thursday press release.
It will be located on a new street, Unified Parkway, on UN1F1ED2’s 448-acre site off of Providence Road and Boston Roads in Sutton.
Masiello built the first UN1F1ED2 facility in 1998, added onto that facility, and designed and built the company’s 418,000-square-foot headquarters in 2009.
UN1F1ED2 is a custom packaging design and manufacturing company a joint venture of AGlobal Solutions of Sutton and Rand-Whitney Packaging LLC of Worcester. Rand-Whitney is owned by The Kraft Group of Foxborough, which owns the New England Patriots football team.
In addition to these two sites, the Blackstone Logistics Center, a 646,000-square-foot facility in Douglas, Sutton, and Uxbridge, is under construction. Illinois-based medical supply manufacturer Medline opened a $90-million, 840,000-square-foot distribution center in Uxbridge in 2020.
The Boston area had an industrial vacancy rate of 3% at mid-year 2022, compared with 4.3% a year earlier, according to Newmark. Demand for quality space continues to push larger requirements to markets such as Worcester and southern New Hampshire.
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