In a regional first, Amazon, which rents numerous warehouses in the Philadelphia area, has acquired an office building in King of Prussia from investor Eli Kahn, writes Jacob Adelman for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The eCommerce giant is expected to redevelop the property into a new warehouse.

Amazon purchased the 57-year-old two-story building in June for $26.5 million, which is $2.5 million more than the Malvern-based seller bought it for just two months earlier.

The 230,000-square-foot building is located at 760 Moore Road, close to Schuylkill Expressway, Pennsylvania Turnpike, as well as U.S. Routes 202 and 422. Amazon already leases a facility a few blocks from its latest acquisition and will likely use the future warehouse to boost its operations in the area.

Amazon currently leases close to 60 warehouses across the Greater Philadelphia region.

“These distribution centers have proliferated across the Philadelphia area in recent years but it rarely takes ownership of its sites,” said Adrian Ponsen, CoStar Group’s analytics director for Philadelphia. “When it does, it’s usually to ensure they can continue to grow in strategic, hard-to-access locations. That’s likely what this acquisition is about, given the location near the intersection of a number of key highways.”

Read more about the acquisition in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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