About 100 Middletown residents showed up Tuesday night before the planning commission to protest a proposed 330,000 square-foot logistics warehouse in the 1400 block of West Baltimore Pike, reports Chris O’Connell for Fox 29 News.
“I’m just trying to figure out why there. Why such a big warehouse?” asked resident Ray Perillo.
“It will be insane. It will be insane,” added Ed Williams of Glen Mills.
The warehouse would be built on the former Franklin Mint site, located near homes in the newer developments of Franklin Station and Ponds Edge.
It is not yet known what company would occupy the warehouse. At one point, Amazon was interested but has backed off, said Scott Henderson of Outrigger Industrial, the developer of the project,
The developers say they’ve even had interest from a “major motion picture studio.”
The warehouse calls for 62 loading docks with an estimated 100 trucks daily coming and going.
Williams said truck and car traffic right now is already backing up three-quarters of a mile.
The Middletown Planning Commission scheduled a second night for public comment in June.
If approved, the warehouse would take 18 months to complete.
Read more about the proposed warehouse at the former Franklin Mint site at Fox 29 News.
