Lineage acquires Burris Logistics’ cold storage, e-commerce sites

Deal consists of 8 facilities in 6 states

· Tuesday, October 03, 2023

Lineage Logistics facility in Houston, Texas (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Lineage Logistics, a real estate investment trust that specializes in temperature-controlled logistics, on Tuesday acquired the cold storage and e-commerce fulfillment assets of third-party logistics provider Burris Logistics for an undisclosed sum.

Under the agreement, Novi, Michigan-based Lineage acquired eight facilities in six states totaling nearly 1.3 million square feet.

This is the third transaction between the two companies in the past three years. Lineage acquired Burris’ Lyndhurst, Virginia, facility in 2020 and its Haines City, Florida, facility in 2021.

Lineage operates more than 400 facilities on three continents.

Milford, Delaware-based Burris’ remaining portfolio consists of Honor Foods, a food service redistribution company that operates four facilities, and freight broker Trinity Logistics.

Mark Solomon

Formerly the Executive Editor at DC Velocity, Mark Solomon joined FreightWaves as Managing Editor of Freight Markets. Solomon began his journalistic career in 1982 at Traffic World magazine, ran his own public relations firm (Media Based Solutions) from 1994 to 2008, and has been at DC Velocity since then. Over the course of his career, Solomon has covered nearly the whole gamut of the transportation and logistics industry, including trucking, railroads, maritime, 3PLs, and regulatory issues. Solomon witnessed and narrated the rise of Amazon and XPO Logistics and the shift of the U.S. Postal Service from a mail-focused service to parcel, as well as the exponential, e-commerce-driven growth of warehouse square footage and omnichannel fulfillment.