Thanks to the boom in e-commerce, the Lehigh Valley industrial market is even busier than it was prior to the pandemic. 

The Giant Company’s new Giant Direct E-commerce Fulfillment Center opened in Philadelphia this week, allowing the super market chain to serve more customers in Philadelphia and begin serving customers for the first time in southern New Jersey. 

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, growth in the e-commerce, logistics and transportation industries, which were already booming in the Lehigh Valley, has gone full tilt.

As more and more of these large-footprint stores fade from the retail landscape throughout the Lehigh Valley, their replacements will look a little different.

Dermody Properties, a private equity real estate investment, development and management company bought 9024 Old Route 22 in Bethel Township and is developing a new distribution center.

Two buildings are going up at 1198 Feather Way and 2020 Feather Way in Bethlehem, for a project called Steel City Trade Center.

A King of Prussia-based e-commerce logistics provider is opening a new fulfillment center in Forks Township that could end up employing more than 700 people – at least during peak seasons.