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2025
Analyzing the Impact of Warehouse Development in Pennsylvania
August 28, 2025 | Community and Economic Development
Pennsylvania has recently emerged as a center of warehousing development on the East Coast. New distribution facilities can provide economic benefits, but also present challenges for surrounding communities. Using Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis of publicly available data, stakeholder outreach, and media analysis, this project evaluates the impacts of warehouse growth in the state and uses six case study counties to explore employment trends, traffic impacts, and other community changes, such as land use and population, over the last 10 years. Results demonstrate growth in the number of warehouses and warehousing jobs, growth in collisions involving smaller commercial vehicles, and specific community concerns in rural areas. In addition, average labor income and the share of total value added by direct employment in general warehousing jobs are both higher in rural counties than in urban counties. These results will help inform land-use, transportation, and economic development policies at the local and state levels.
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Tags: warehousing , e-commerce , rural pennsylvania
2008
Economic and Transportation Impact of Warehousing on Rural Pennsylvania
January 01, 2008 | Community and Economic Development
This research, conducted in 2007, provided a comprehensive analysis of warehousing and trucking by examining industry trends, labor issues, technology requirements, community issues, policy and tax issues, and land use concerns in Pennsylvania. It conducted a locational analysis of warehousing and trucking at the national and state levels to understand the larger patterns of industry location trends. It also presented a geographic inventory of warehousing and trucking facilities throughout Pennsylvania counties in relation to transport infrastructure, inter-modal facilities, and other socio-economic and land use characteristics.
Tags: warehousing , trucking
Introducing the Center's new journal, Rural Policy: The Research Bulletin of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.