BentallGreenOak and Mulberry Developments to Deliver New 1.1m sq.ft. Logistics Campus for Eddie Stobart in Doncaster
LONDON - (October 6, 2021) — BentallGreenOak has signed contracts with Mulberry Developments to deliver a state of the art, 1.1M sq. ft. logistics campus in Doncaster for Eddie Stobart, part of the Culina Logistics Group.
The campus, located at J34 of the A1M, will comprise two separate, BREEAM Excellent, 18m high, cross-docked 565,000 sq.ft. warehouses that will be delivered to Eddie Stobart in the middle of 2022.
“We are delighted to have been able to work in close partnership with the excellent teams at Mulberry and Eddie Stobart to deliver this large and innovative transaction,” said Gareth Purcell, Managing Director at BentallGreenOak. “We continue to have high conviction in the UK logistics market with this deal representing our ninth acquisition in the last ten months with a total combined area of approximately 7m sq.ft.”
“It is always a great pleasure when deals of this scale come together, especially when there is such a close partnership between Tenant, Investor and Developer,” said Mark Day, Development director at Mulberry. “We are looking forward to seeing these two buildings complete next year and have now started marketing a second phase which can provide warehouse buildings of up to 1.2m sqft.”
M1 Agency, Taylor Wessing and Hollis advised BentallGreenOak. Gowling WLG advised Mulberry and Roebuck Asset Management advised Eddie Stobart Limited.
About BentallGreenOak
BentallGreenOak is a leading, global real estate investment management advisor and a globally-recognized provider of real estate services. BentallGreenOak serves the interests of more than 750 institutional clients with approximately $69 billion USD of assets under management (as of June 30, 2021) and expertise in the asset management of office, industrial, multi-residential, retail and hospitality property across the globe. BentallGreenOak has offices in 24 cities across twelve countries with deep, local knowledge, experience, and extensive networks in the regions where we invest in and manage real estate assets on behalf of our clients in primary, secondary and co-investment markets.
In Europe, BentallGreenOak is a leading investment manager with over 50 professionals and $10.5 billion USD in AUM across debt and equity, with strategies spanning from Core to Value-Add and Development, with its own internalised operating capability. Since 2014, the firm has acquired, developed or is currently developing over 200 European logistics assets comprising over 66 million square feet (6.1m sq.m.)
BentallGreenOak is a part of SLC Management, which is the alternatives asset management business of Sun Life.
The assets under management shown above includes real estate equity and mortgage investments managed by the BentallGreenOak group of companies and their affiliates, and as of 1Q21, includes certain uncalled capital commitments for discretionary capital until they are legally expired and excludes certain uncalled capital commitments where the investor has complete discretion over investment.
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About Mulberry Developments
Established in 2003 Mulberry is privately owned property developer with interests in Commercial and Residential development.
Mulberry has successfully completed a wide range of projects including leisure, cinema and superstore developments, but its main focus is large scale logistics, having completed over 7 million sqft. In April this year Mulberry completed Midlands Logistics Park in Corby comprising 2.5 million sqft in four buildings which it developed in partnership with Frogmore.
The residential arm of the business was started 10 years ago and has completed nearly 1,000 homes in the South Midlands region.
For more information, please visit www.mpdl.co.uk
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