This story was originally published on Spotlight Delaware. A development company that has built distribution centers for Amazon and Walmart is suing New Castle County, claiming that government inaction has improperly delayed its controversial plan to construct a nearly 2.4 million-square-foot warehousing complex near Middletown. The lawsuit follows months of outcry in the Middletown area against the development of massive warehouses, and the …
The Warehouse, which calls itself Delawareâs first community center for teens and by teens, has opened a support room for mental health and overhauled its gym. âIâm excited we are opening two spaces that really reflect teen priorities,â Anthony Green, Warehouse teen executive board president, said in a statement. The Warehouse is at 1121 Thatcher St., on the East Side …
The news coverage of whatâs happening at the old Tri-State Mall (which closed in 2015, leaving a small strip shopping center still running) has largely ignored a store thatâs thrived there since 1984. Tri-State Liquors is still in business, as several signs on chain link fencing along Naamans Road proclaim, and itâs planning to move soon across the parking lot to …
A developer has sold 28 acres in First State Crossing, a multiuse Claymont site that once housed a steel plant, and the buyer will build a 358,000-square-feet warehouse there. First Industrial Realty Trust is planning a rear-load facility with 68 dock door positions, a 40-foot clear height and parking for 241 trailers and 289 cars. The land is on the …
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition to halt the development of a 1.8-million-square-foot warehouse complex next to The Village of Bayberry North, a residential community in Middletown. Theyâre angry because the warehouses will go up in a spot that had been approved as a business park with offices, restaurants and a daycare center. Instead, theyâll end up with …
