MONROE LOGISTICS CENTER
- Two-building commercial development located on Logistics Way, off Ohio 63 in Monroe
- Built and owned by IDI
- Building A is 720,000 square feet
- Building B is about 550,000 square feet
- With the addition of Blue Buffalo Co., both buildings are now 100 percent full
- Tenants include: Hayneedle Inc., Appvion Inc., Ball Metal Beverage, Blue Buffalo Co.
Blue Buffalo, a growing all natural pet food company, is opening a distribution center in Monroe, creating an estimated 50 new local jobs and adding to Monroe’s base of corporate warehouse facilities, city officials said.
Other distribution centers and warehouses in Monroe, which is situated on Interstate 75 between Cincinnati and Dayton, include a Kohl’s e-commerce fulfillment center, a Home Depot Rapid Deployment Center and a fulfillment center for online home goods retailer Hayneedle Inc.
Wilton, Conn.-based Blue Buffalo Co. has signed a lease to occupy nearly 400,000-square-feet in the Monroe Logistics Center development, Kevin Chesar, Monroe development director, said Tuesday.
More details on the lease terms, including when the agreement was reached and the length of the lease was not immediately available.
Monroe Logistics Center is a two-building development on approximately 86 acres designed for distribution centers. It was built and is owned by Industrial Developments International, a commercial real estate company with a Cincinnati office. The property is located off Salzman Road, off of Ohio 63.
The first building, Building A, was constructed in 2008. Construction on Building B finished in December 2012, and with the Blue Buffalo deal is now fully leased within six months of being built, Chesar said.
Building A is also 100 percent full.
Companies operating at Monroe Logistics Center include Hayneedle and Appvion Inc. (formerly Appleton Papers). Earlier this year, Hayneedle announced it was growing operations and leasing more space in Monroe. Also earlier this year, Ball Metal Beverage signed a lease at Building B to open a distribution center for aluminum cans to supply the MillerCoors brewery in St. Clair Twp.
“We are thrilled that Blue Buffalo has chosen Monroe as one point of operations for their growing company. It is our understanding that they will start to move product to this location in August, with the goal of being operational in early September,” Chesar said in an email.
IDI also owns Park North at Monroe, a business park located on the opposite side of the Ohio 63/I-75 interchange as Monroe Logistics Center. Park North is in Warren County.
Officials with Blue Buffalo could not be reached Tuesday.
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