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New Park Will Incorporate Sustainable Design. Birmingham, England: ProLogis, one of the world's largest owners and developers of distribution facilities, has announced plans to develop a 2.1 million-square-foot, rail-served distribution park in southeast London.

The 158-acre park, to be called ProLogis Park Howbury, will include a new intermodal facility and four large-scale industrial warehouses; each will be rail-served. The park is the first of several rail-served distribution parks ProLogis plans to develop at key road and rail intersections throughout the United Kingdom. The rail infrastructure planned at ProLogis Park Howbury will connect to major freight routes, seaports and other rail-served logistics parks throughout the country, as well as a pan-European network of existing ProLogis rail-served facilities.

ProLogis plans to begin construction on the park, which will be developed using a number of environmentally friendly features and technologies, early this year.

"Companies with logistics requirements are increasingly realizing the environmental, commercial and operational advantages of moving product by rail," says Andrew Griffiths, managing director for ProLogis in the UK. "Rail freight produces less greenhouse gas emissions, provides fuel cost savings and reduces delays related to congested road travel. We believe that rail freight is important to the future of the logistics industry in the UK. With strategic land holdings and expertise in this area of development, we are well positioned to serve customer demand for rail-served distribution facilities."