Construction crews have broken ground on a three-building logistics park rising from a 150-acre former landfill straddling Bellmawr Borough and Deptford Township, with more than 1 million square feet of warehouse space planned for a site long associated with buried trash rather than big-box distribution.
The project, called Big Timber Junction, is located at 744 Creek Road in Bellmawr, according to Construction Owners, which reports that developer Greystar has closed on the land and begun construction on the three-building, 150-acre logistics development. The outlet describes the site as positioned to serve the Philadelphia-area market and to connect the Philadelphia metropolitan area with the broader Northeast corridor.
The scale of the undertaking is considerable. Building A alone will contain 406,309 square feet of cross-dock space with a 451-foot depth and 40-foot clear height, while Building B is planned for 345,272 square feet of front-loading space and Building C for 249,429 square feet, per the same report. All three buildings are slated to include ESFR sprinkler systems and 2,135 square feet of office space apiece, with room to add more. CBRE is expected to lead leasing for the park, and completion is targeted for January 2028, the outlet notes.
A Landfill's Long Road to Redevelopment
The 150-acre footprint has a complicated history. The Bellmawr Redevelopment Agency describes the broader Big Timber Creek Waterfront Redevelopment as a public-private partnership among the Borough of Bellmawr, the agency itself, and Big Timber Junction LLC, covering a waterfront area made up of three former landfills. Environmental remediation at the site began in earnest back in 2006, according to the Bellmawr Redevelopment Agency, which lists completing that cleanup and constructing a waterfront park with a natural walking trail among the project's core objectives.
That promised park has been part of the vision for years. The Philadelphia Inquirer previously reported that the planned waterfront space would stretch roughly a mile along Big Timber Creek and comprise about 12 acres, offering a green counterpoint to the industrial buildings nearby. The Inquirer had also identified Big Timber Junction LLC as the chosen redeveloper of the Bellmawr site well before this month's groundbreaking.
Not every account agrees on exactly how far the logistics piece of the project has progressed. A separate report from 42Freeway.com described the logistics center as something that would be developed at a later date and remained in the early stage of design and approvals — a characterization that predates this month's reported start of construction and has not been independently reconciled with the newer groundbreaking report. The underlying site itself, 42Freeway.com noted, is a 150-acre former landfill property in Bellmawr.
Fitting Into a Tightening South Jersey Market
Big Timber Junction is landing in a Southern New Jersey industrial market that has been steadily firming up. The Southern New Jersey vacancy rate declined from 10.8% to 10.3% in the second quarter of 2026, according to a Colliers report, which also found leasing activity strengthening along the I-95 and I-295 corridors. Colliers expected vacancy to keep falling over the following two quarters as earlier construction gets absorbed and speculative development pulls back.
The broader numbers tell a similar story. South Jersey's industrial vacancy rate fell from 14.2% to 11.5% over the twelve months leading into a first-quarter 2026 report, Bisnow found, and the submarket recorded nearly 2.3 million square feet of positive industrial absorption in 2025. Colliers also pointed to Burlington County as a standout performer, buoyed by demand from Asian third-party logistics providers, while Real Estate New Jersey has reported that the region continues to attract companies chasing Class A warehouse space that has grown scarce or expensive farther north.
How It Stacks Up to Other South Jersey Projects
Big Timber Junction isn't the only large industrial park taking shape in the region. Dermody Properties has unveiled plans for nearly 1.2 million square feet across three buildings on 154 acres in Woolwich Township, with structures measuring 262,200, 552,585 and 336,700 square feet at the intersection of Route 322 and Locke Avenue, according to Real Estate New Jersey. Those buildings are planned with 36- to 40-foot clear heights and 50 to 110 dock-high doors, giving a sense of the scale competing for tenants across the corridor.
Smaller deals are moving too. Brighton-Best International paid $23.5 million for a 37-acre pre-entitled site at 200 Crossroads Boulevard, where Greek Real Estate Partners' construction arm is building a 190,000-square-foot warehouse expected to deliver in the first quarter of 2027, Bisnow reported. The same outlet noted that EQT Real Estate recently paid $309 million for a nine-building South Jersey industrial property spanning roughly 2 million square feet — another sign of how much capital is flowing into the region's warehouse sector as Big Timber Junction rises from its old landfill footprint.
