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Pittston, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) July 20, 2014
For decades, drivers using I-81 and I-476 near Pittston, Pennsylvania gazed at acre after acre of barren land, but never truly saw it.
The Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation called the land, a poster-child, mine-scarred area with a veritable stew of abandoned mine land features such as dangerous high-walls associated with strip mining, shafts, slopes, crop-falls and other similar openings
However, when Wilkes-Barre developer Robert Mericle saw the land, he envisioned a much different future. He saw a thriving business park with dozens of world-class companies and thousands of jobs.
He saw CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park.
Beginning in 2005, Robert Mericle and his company, Mericle Construction Inc., began reclaiming the environmentally damaged 1,800 acres and has since transformed it into arguably the fastest growing business park in Pennsylvania.
Mericles CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park is already home to 23 industrial, office, and flex buildings totaling 6 million square feet. There are 39 tenants in those buildings that together employ 4,500 workers. The occupancy rate is more than 98%.
Park tenants include some of the worlds elite companies such as Home Depot, Lowes, FedEx Ground, Corning, Kimberly Clark, Neiman Marcus, and Mens Wearhouse.
Many would say that Robert Mericles decision to develop such mind-scarred land was inherently risky. However, the strategy he used to guide the parks steady growth through the U.S. recession was nothing short of remarkable.
Mericle has built all but a few of the park buildings on speculation, meaning he had no tenants in hand when construction started. Between 2008 and 2013, the recession years, most U.S. developers ceased constructing buildings on speculation. Not Robert Mericle. He plowed ahead and developed 15 buildings on speculation in Northeastern Pennsylvania including nine in CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park. The nine buildings total almost 1.5 million square feet. Almost 100% of that space is occupied.
When asked in 2011 why he would continue to build on speculation during such tough economic times, Mericle said, I believe in this area and its people. Northeastern Pennsylvania is poised to be one of the leading business locations along the East Coast. I think it is imperative that we have a wide variety of commercial real estate available at all times.
In 2012, Mericle launched his ReadyToGo!TM Program, an initiative to fully prepare more than 90 parcels in 15 Northeastern Pennsylvania business parks and then construct speculative buildings on those sites based upon market demand.
For its ReadyToGo! TM Sites, Mericle Construction, Inc., obtains all permits and full subdivision, land development, and utility approvals. In most cases, all grading, including the placement of compacted stone sub-base in the building and pavement areas is completed, and the parcels are made completely ready for the immediate construction of building foundations.
Mericles ReadyToGo! TM Sites range from 1.15 acres to 127 acres and can accommodate companies needing buildings from 5,000 square feet to more than one million square feet. Mericle is finding the sites and spec buildings to be attractive to manufacturers, distributors, medical professionals, and a variety of office and business services firms.
Within just six to nine months of the signing of a lease, we can construct a new facility and have it ready for a tenant on any of our ReadyToGo! Sites, said Robert Mericle in 2012. By comparison, it would typically take a competing developer 12 to 24 months to obtain all permits and approvals, prepare a site, and construct a new facility.
Commercial real estate brokers view the ReadyToGo! TM Program in a very positive light.
Bill Wolf, executive vice president of CB Richard Ellis in Allentown, has been the lead real estate broker for several major projects that landed in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He worked with Mericle to locate The Home Depots 465,600 square foot regional distribution center in CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park. Mericle constructed the building to The Home Depots exact specifications.
As the economy continues to recover, quality warehousing and manufacturing space will become scarcer in the eastern Pennsylvania market, said Wolf. Any sites that are pad ready with NPDES permits in place will have a six to nine month occupancy advantage, which will become more important as the current recovery gains momentum.
Jeff Williams, now senior vice president of CRESA Philadelphias Conshohocken office, represented J.P. Boden and Amazon.com during their searches for new locations in the region. Mericle constructed a new building for Boden in CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park and expanded an existing spec building in Humboldt Industrial Park near Hazleton for Amazon.com.
Mericle’s Ready to Go Program will attract those prospects that typically would only look at existing building options, said Williams. And perception is reality. If a prospect can drive up, walk the site, see that it is flat and free of trees and rocks, they can more easily visualize their building, parking areas, and access. It makes the site more appealing and the decision to go with such a site is made more easily than one that is inaccessible or in its original state. Its the next closest thing to having a building built.
Through mid-2014, Mericle had completed work on 37 of the more than 90 sites. Thirty ReadyToGo! TM Sites have been completed in CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park. In 2013, Mericle constructed two spec buildings in the park and landed office companies Maximus and C3i, Austrian manufacturer Greiner Packaging, and indoor trampoline park company SkyZone. Together, the four companies are creating more than 1,000 jobs.
This July, Mericle began constructing a 134,400 square foot speculative flex building in the park and this fall, will break ground on a 22,600 square foot office building.
Robert Mericle plans to construct more than 15 million square feet of industrial, office, and flex space on his ReadyToGo! TM Sites. He used historical occupancy and vacancy data for the company since 1985 and estimated that between 10,500 and 13,500 people will work in those yet to be constructed buildings.
GRUNDY COUNTY, Tenn. (PRWEB) July 18, 2014
Electronic recording of documents in Grundy County, Tenn., is now available through Simplifile, the nations largest e-recording service, providing customers with a faster, more efficient method for land document recording.
I am a firm believer that as a public servant, we should strive daily to make the office of Register of Deeds the best that it can be, for the land owners and those that represent them. I see e-recording as the next big thing in improving recording in Grundy County, said Grundy County Register of Deeds Gayle Vanhooser.
With e-recording available, recording customers such as title companies, banks, and attorneys will be able to electronically scan, upload, submit and track the status of documents sent to the county for recording via the Internet. Once the register of deeds office receives the documents online, they can then quickly record and return them back to the submitter through Simplifile.
The Grundy County land owners will benefit from e-recording in multiple ways, Vanhooser said. First, the check and balance system that our computer vendor has put into place will assure that all e-recorded documents will be accurately recorded. Accuracy is one of the most important factors in the recording process. Second, the land owners and those that represent our land owners will find that in a real estate closing or loan closing, documents can be recorded within a matter of minutes versus the three or four-day process that was involved with mailing the documents and then waiting on the return mail.
Even with overnight service, this could still mean several days in time savings at that most crucial time of closing on a real estate sale or loan closing, she added. My goal is to always provide the best possible service for the land owners of Grundy County, and I hope that offering this service will help with the recording process for our customers.
Other benefits of e-recording include fewer payment errors, increased document security, and less overall paper waste.
Grundy County is the 21st Tennessee e-recording county to adopt Simplifiles e-recording service.
For more information about e-recording in Grundy County, Tenn., call 800-460-5657 or visit simplifile.com.
About Simplifile
Simplifile is the nations largest and fastest-growing e-recording service provider. Simplifile supports thousands of e-recording customers including title companies, banks, attorneys, lien filers, and other organizations that create and submit documents to more than 1,100 local, state, and federal government jurisdictions. Simplifiles electronic document services save time and the expenses associated with traditional document submission methods. Simplifile is focused on building the industrys largest and easiest-to-use e-recording service for organizations of all sizes. More information about Simplifile may be found at simplifile.com or by calling 800-460-5657.
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