Competitor Watch
International courier, parcel, and express mail service, DHL has agreed a deal for more than 50,000 sq ft of space at a new industrial development currently under construction just outside Leeds city centre.
DHL will take about six acres of the extensive new 16-acre industrial development, known as Total Park. The 57,350 sq ft unit will be used as a parcel logistics centre.
DHL will take occupation of its new building by this summer. Detailed planning permission for five further industrial and warehouse units, ranging in size from 9,200 sq ft up to 58,000 sq ft, has also been secured and work on these units is currently underway.
Total Park sits to the east of Leeds in the Aire Valley in a prominent location on Pontefract Lane and is the first major scheme in Yorkshire for Total Developments, which acquired the site in 2018.
The remaining units are being marketed jointly by property consultancy Gent Visick and M1 Agency.
Daniel Walker, from Gent Visick, added: ‘After overseeing the site's prompt sale last year, we knew that there would be a high level of interest in these bespoke units that benefit from such a sought-after location. With excellent access to Leeds city centre, which is just two miles away, and with Junction 45 of the M1 motorway being just one mile away, it's an ideal location and these highly specified units will meet the requirements of almost any modern occupier.’
Our new state-of-the-art Warrington parcels hub, which covers the equivalent of four-and-a-half football pitches and handles 600,000 items a day, is ideally situated close to the M62 and the M6 in the middle of Manchester and Liverpool, and strategically located just a stone’s throw from some of our biggest customers – including Amazon.
Since Warrington Mail Centre installed their new parcel sorting machine, they’ve been able to process up to 10,000 parcels an hour. The new machine reads typed and handwritten addresses and barcodes and moves parcels along its conveyors to 81 destination containers. And it’s operated by no less than 11 people!
