The town of Plainfield, located in Connecticut’s “Last Green Valley,” might appear remote and rural, but it has still attracted a lot of attention from major corporate warehouses, with a slew of recent deals.
While the town of Plainfield is experiencing an increase in warehouse development, central Connecticut’s broader industrial real estate market has slowed down.
Plans to develop one of New England’s largest battery-storage facilities in the rural northeast corner of Connecticut fizzled in part due to the developer’s unease with rising tariffs and President Donald J. Trump’s rollback of federal incentives.
Uline, a Wisconsin-based distributor of shipping, industrial and packaging materials, is significantly expanding its East Coast operations with a new 1.25 million-square-foot warehouse in Plainfield.