The 9 Largest Eastern Pennsylvania Industrial Groundbreakings Of 2025

Eastern Pennsylvania has been a poster child for the post-pandemic warehouse construction blitz.

That development boom slowed slightly this year, with 32 new projects breaking ground, down from 35 in 2024 and 36 in 2023, according to Lee & Associates. But developers still managed to put shovels in the dirt on some big project sites in 2025.

Of the nine largest projects Lee & Associates tracked in the region, four are in northeast Pennsylvania. Regional Research Director Heather Kreiger said this submarket has the most robust pipeline in the eastern half of the state.

It may be supplanting Pennsylvania’s previous poster child, the Lehigh Valley, where well-located developable sites are becoming hard to find.

“There’s a lot of land available, there is power available, it is still pretty well located in terms of highway access,” Kreiger said of northeast Pennsylvania, which is centered on Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. “The cost of land is a little bit less in that market right now.”

The submarket, which is also experiencing an unprecedented data center construction blitz, managed to score the largest single industrial building that broke ground in eastern Pennsylvania this year, but not the largest project.

Central Pennsylvania is also getting a bit full, but it still managed to score three of the top five entries on this list.

Below is the ranking of the nine largest industrial projects that broke ground in eastern Pennsylvania this year, according to Lee & Associates. 

9. Pocono Mountains Corporate Center

• Developer: Mapletree Investments
• Region: Northeast Pennsylvania
• Location: Tobyhanna, Monroe County
• Size: 420K SF

The Poconos may be best known as a scenic vacation destination with some of Pennsylvania’s best skiing and hiking, but the rural landscape is increasingly being broken up by big-box warehouses.

The Pocono Mountains Economic Development Corp. began compiling parcels for this project near the region’s airport in the early 1970s.

Mapletree Investments and Kadean Construction broke ground on the latest 420K SF addition to the park at 1180 Corporate Center Drive E. last month. It is next to a 1.3M SF warehouse the developer has already built at 2086 Corporate Center Drive W.

8. Core5 at Valley North

• Developer: Core5
• Region: Northeast Pennsylvania
• Location: Tannersville, Monroe County
• Size: 702K SF

This warehouse is just 10 miles down the road, but with its location overlooking I-80, it feels a bit closer to civilization.

Core5 broke ground on this development last quarter. Its highway access provides a straight route into the heart of North Jersey, where logistics firms are eager to move goods out of Port Newark and into the nation’s largest city. The warehouse, with 40-foot clear heights and enough parking for 157 tractor-trailers, is available to lease.

7. Highridge Business Park

• Developer: Schuylkill Economic Development Corp.
• Region: Northeast Pennsylvania
• Location: Pottsville, Schuylkill County
• Size: 918K SF

Beloved grocery chain Wegmans has already preleased this warehouse on I-81, which the Schuylkill Economic Development Corp. broke ground on early in the third quarter.

It is almost directly in the middle of Scranton, Harrisburg and Allentown, which respectively anchor each of Pennsylvania’s most prominent industrial markets. Each of those metros also has a Wegmans location, although there isn’t one in Pottsville.

6. Maiden Creek Crossings

• Developer: Wolfson Group
• Region: Lehigh Valley
• Location: Blandon, Berks County
• Size: 930K SF

The Lehigh Valley has long been the poster child for eastern Pennsylvania’s warehouse sector, but this is one of just two entries in the region that made this list.

Wolfson Group broke ground on this project in the Blandon section of Maidencreek Township in Q2. It sits on Route 222, or Allentown Pike, which state officials are working to widen.

5. Silver Springs Logistics Park, Buildings 1 And 2

• Developer: Rockefeller Group
• Region: Central Pennsylvania
• Location: New Kingstown, Cumberland County
• Size: 1.12M SF

The list has now reached projects above 1M SF, but they don’t seem to get much bigger than that.

Rockefeller Group broke ground on two buildings west of Harrisburg at 245 Hempt Road in Mechanicsburg earlier this quarter. Both spaces, which are 803,500 SF and 318K SF, respectively, are available to lease.

4. Manchester Commerce Center, Building 2

• Developer: NorthPoint Group
• Region: Central Pennsylvania
• Location: Manchester, York County
• Size: 1.13M SF

Kansas City, Missouri-based NorthPoint has become a big name in Northeast Pennsylvania with its aspirations to build a massive data center campus near Hazelton.

But the developer also has a presence in York County, where it broke ground on the second phase of a three-building park in Q2. The space, which Lee & Associates expects to deliver soon, is preleased to Wolf Home Products, a company that makes wooden cabinets and decks. 

3. Gateway Commerce Center At I-76, Buildings 1 And 2

• Developer: Panattoni Development Co.
• Region: Lehigh Valley
• Location: New Morgan, Berks County
• Size: 1.18M SF

Lee & Associates includes Berks County in its Lehigh Valley submarket, but the area centered on Reading was a bit of an afterthought as sites near Allentown filled up in the early 2020s.

That has started to shift this year, and this mammoth project from Panattoni that broke ground this quarter is a prime example. It sits on I-76, which cuts almost exactly halfway between Reading and Lancaster. 

The property's history as a former Bethlehem Steel Grace Mine site also means it was eligible for a 10-year local economic revitalization tax assistance abatement. 

2. Mountain Valley Logistics Center, Building 2

• Developer: PNK Group
• Region: Northeast Pennsylvania
• Location: Barnesville, Schuylkill County
• Size: 1.24M SF

This is the largest individual warehouse built in Pennsylvania this year, according to Lee & Associates. 

While its location overlooking I-81 and down the road from I-80 is one major asset, this is another LERTA property that happens to sit in a Keystone opportunity zone. The project broke ground in Q1 and still has space available to lease.

1. United Business Park

• Developer: Matrix Development Group
• Region: Central Pennsylvania
• Location: Shippensburg, Franklin County
• Size: 1.3M SF

Part of the largest new warehouse project in eastern Pennsylvania this year is already spoken for.

Matrix Development Group is erecting two hulking structures at 1055 Woods Road, a 410K SF building that has already been preleased by an undisclosed tenant and a 900K space that remains up for grabs.

The site overlooking I-81 north of Chambersburg is also farther south and west than any other entry on this list. This part of central Pennsylvania is closer to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., than Philadelphia or New York City.