CenterPoint at Linden: A Win for the Community

On Jul 15, 2025

In 2019, Chicago-based industrial real estate developer CenterPoint decided on a 20-acre site near the Port of Newark-Elizabeth for its proposed industrial facility catering to heavy port-using tenants. The new development would be a significant upgrade for the community over the existing “Linden Marketplace,” which had struggled to attract tenants since its anchor, a 250,000-square-foot functionally obsolete building, was vacated by Walmart.

Over the next 18 months, CenterPoint worked closely with the previous landowner and the City of Linden to relocate the remaining retail tenants and develop a plan for CenterPoint at Linden,  a 321,765-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility completed in the fall of 2023 and preleased to CODA Logistics and Distribution. 

Under the leadership of architect KSS and builder RC Anderson LLC, the self-funded, multi-million-dollar project integrated sustainability features like a future solar array and the necessary infrastructure to incorporate EV-charging facilities throughout the car parking areas. KSS also enhanced the building’s visibility from Route 12 by incorporating a unique double-height office space along the prominent corner of the building.

Not only did the project lead to 120 construction jobs, but CODA has hired 75 full-time employees, a number expected to triple over the next few years. As Linden Mayor Derek Armstead said at the 2022 groundbreaking, “The warehouse is going to be one more of our attractions here in town (delivering) five times the tax rateables that we were accustomed to getting. To me, that’s a win.”

Architect

KSS Architects

Princeton

Builder

RC Anderson LLC

Fairfield

Nominator

Mike Noonan Communications Manager, CenterPoint

Linden

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