While City Hall works on a plan to preserve manufacturing in East Williamsburg, the gentrification buzzsaw is already taking its toll

EastGroup Properties acquired 61 acres of land for $27 million, with plans to develop an 850,000 square foot industrial park in Dade County, Miami Gardens, Florida. The parcel has frontage along the Florida Turnpike and is adjacent to the Calder Casino and Race Course and Hard Rock Stadium home of the Miami Dolphins.

The revamping of Cecil from a farming community to a corporate hub has not only transformed the landscape, but also the lives of the original residents here who have been able to get top dollar for land they once had to work to eek out a living.

The Town of Easton, Maryland, received a $1 million state administered HUD grant to upgrade its Talbot Commerce Park. The project will extend public sewer and water service and complete access road improvements to the park’s 111 acres intended for light industrial uses such as warehousing, distribution, automotive services and offices.

The plans for South Dakota's first economic development "mega site," have been unveiled. The 850 acres will be near the I-90, I-29 interchange.

Lincoln Equities Group, one of the Northeast's leading full-service real estate companies, received Preliminary Site Plan approval to develop Lincoln Industrial Park, a project consisting of 2.4 million square feet of industrial space on 265-acres in Piscataway, New Jersey.

The Taunton Development/MassDevelopment Corporation sold 115 acres in the expanded Myles Standish Industrial Park in Taunton, Massachusetts. The property will be bought by the Martignetti Companies, New England’s leading distributor of wines and spirits.

The industrial development arm of Transwestern Development Company, Ridge Development plans to construct a two-building industrial park on 47 acres in north Fort Worth, Texas.

A global animal nutrition company, Alltech will become the first occupant at Pikeville, Kentucky’s new Marion Branch industrial site, with plans to create an aquaculture and poultry layer facility.

The two-month-old Central Florida Intermodal Logistics Center in Winter Haven is helping redefine how freight moves through the state, and now it has spawned a mammoth industrial development nearby.

Anticipating continuing demand for industrial and manufacturing-distribution space and the long-term strengths of the San Francisco Bay Area Industrial market, Los Angeles-based Overton Moore Properties, began construction of 691,000 square feet of Class A Industrial Buildings on a 40.5 acre site in Fremont, California.

Diamond Logistics Northwest secured 18 acres at the Port of Quincy, Washington’s industrial Park for future expansion of its cross-docking and load consolidation facilities.

A company that coats products used by the auto, truck and industrial equipment manufacturers, Creative Liquid Coatings plans to move its manufacturing facilities to the vacant Johnson Controls building in Kendallville, Indiana’s East Industrial Park.

ProNamic Industries, a non-woven media manufacturer, will invest more than $8.5 million to locate its operations campus at Beaufort County Industrial Park in Washington, North Carolina, with plans to create 52 jobs.