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Tuesday Morning to open distribution center in Phoenix

Catherine Reagor
The Republic | azcentral.com
This southwest Phoenix building near 67th Avenue and Buckeye Road will house a distribution center for retailer Tuesday Morning.

Upscale discount retailer Tuesday Morning is opening a distribution center in southwest Phoenix that is expected to create 300 new jobs.

In one of the biggest Valley lease deals since 2011, the Dallas-based company is renting 593,600 square feet of space near 67th Avenue and Buckeye Road from Liberty Property Trust.

"Our new Phoenix facility will serve our stores in the western United States," Douglas Sullivan, senior vice president of real estate for Tuesday Morning, said in a statement about the deal. "This is an important step in the building of our overall supply chain strategy."

Greater Phoenix Economic Council CEO Chris Camacho said Tuesday Morning looked at several areas across the western United States before picking metro Phoenix for its "vast workforce and strong talent base."

Tuesday Morning has 10 stores in Arizona and almost 800 U.S. locations.

"The Southwest Phoenix Industrial submarket has been poised for rapid growth," said John DiVall, senior vice president Liberty Property. In 2013, the real estate investment group bought the vacant building that Tuesday Morning is leasing.

Don MacWilliam, Payson MacWilliam and Tom Woods of Colliers International worked with Tuesday Morning on the Phoenix deal. Marc Hertzberg and Tony Lydon of JLL represented Liberty in the transaction.

Liberty now owns more than 750 properties with 105 million square feet of space across the United States.

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