Gaylords in Logan Township, Swedesboro and Pureland

Pureland is the name of a former farmland tract in Logan Township that became an industrial complex of about 3,000 acres. Food distributors, food manufacturers, cold storage and logistics companies line its roads, reached by Interstate 295, the Commodore Barry Bridge and the New Jersey Turnpike. Swedesboro, a small old town beside it, gives the area its post office and its train of trucks.

Food is the point, and food means ingredients. Dry goods, sweeteners, nuts, powders and proteins arrive in bulk boxes, usually lined, and the empties are clean, tall and dry. That is exactly the sort of stack we want to hear about. Cold storage adds the opposite problem: boxes that come out of freezers sweat, and damp board is a lower grade.

The Pureland Industrial Complex in Logan Township covers about 3,000 acres of former farmland, with US Foods, Thomas Foods, Dr. Schär, SEW-Eurodrive and XPO Logistics among Logan companies (WHYY). Performance Food Group's Swedesboro building grew to 300,618 square feet in 2024, about 25 percent of it cold storage (ROI-NJ).

We name these as context for the district, not as customers, and we claim no relationship with any of them.

This page covers 08085, 08067, 08020 and 08056. The industries to expect there, from our market research: food distribution, cold storage, food manufacturing and logistics.

Food distribution peaks before Thanksgiving, the winter holidays and summer cookouts, and clears in January and September. Cold storage runs all year.

• Buy. Distributors who want used boxes for repacking, returns or scrap collection.
• Sell. Clean Grade A empties from ingredient deliveries, in pallet or trailer lots; see trailer loads.
• Recycle. Boxes that sweated in cold storage and cannot be resold.

For a large stack, send the count, the dock hours and whether the boxes came out of cold storage.

• Frozen. Held at or below zero Fahrenheit; boxes that come out of frozen storage collect condensation as they warm.
• Dock door. A numbered bay where a trailer backs to a warehouse; warehouses have dozens in a row.
• Ingredient. A food input such as flour or sugar, moved in bulk before being made into a finished product.

• The building type and the ZIP.
• Whether boxes spent time in cold storage.
• The count, footprint, grade and any liners.
• Dock hours and whether a drop trailer is possible.