Our desire for quick delivery is bringing more warehouses to our neighborhoods
As people demand ever-faster turnaround times — not just next-day delivery, but same-day delivery — the companies that bring us stuff are scrambling to find land close to their customers.
UPS plans to build a million-square-foot logistics center on a 136-acre site on Red Lion Road in Northeast Philadelphia. Once the home of the Budd Co.'s aircraft assembly plant, the site is now surrounded by homes.
Like the UPS sorting facility in Northeast Philadelphia, a proposed Amazon distribution center in the Elmwood neighborhood, shown here in a rendering, would be surrounded by a dense residential neighb
