By Noah Lacy CoStar Research
ID Logistics, an international contract logistics provider based in Tampa, Florida, subleased the entire 1,085,280-square-foot Building A in the First Logistics Center @ 283, located at 2771 N. Market St. in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, from online fashion retailer Boohoo Group, which closed its U.S. distribution center as part of a strategy to reduce costs and reposition its business for sustainable, profitable growth.
The deal single-handedly filled one of the largest blocks of industrial sublease space in eastern Pennsylvania.
France-based ID Logistics operates more than 360 sites across 17 countries and manages approximately 8 million square meters of warehousing space globally. The firm has been on an aggressive expansion in North America in 2026, recently expanding operations into South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky and investing $83 million to acquire a 582,000-square-foot distribution facility in eastern Henrico County, Virginia.
ID Logistics entered the U.S. market through the 2019 acquisition of Tampa-based Jagged Peak, and has since made other major acquisitions, including Kane Logistics in 2022.
Boohoo Group, a U.K.-based online retailer that sells clothing, shoes, accessories and beauty products through its numerous brands that now operates as Debenhams Group, signed a long-term lease with First Industrial Realty Trust for the first building completed at First Logistics Center @ 283 with much fanfare in 2022. Completed that year, the distribution facility is located along Route 230 in Dauphin County, approximately eight miles southeast of Harrisburg International Airport and near FedEx and UPS parcel facilities.
Based on the successful development and lease-up of its first building, First Industrial commenced construction on an adjacent industrial facility measuring just under 700,000 square feet that was completed in the second quarter of 2023 at 2701 N Market St. and is leased to Kyocera and JAS Worldwide
Boohoo Group's U.S. facility was operational for approximately 15 months before it ceased operations in November 2024, switching fulfillment of its U.S. orders to its automated fulfillment center in the U.K. Debenhams Group reported the sublease will mitigate approximately $100 million in future lease and holding costs. The company incurred $124 million in costs at the site's operational requirements before closing.
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