E – COMMERCE & LOGISTICS: Where Cold Is Hot

With a global network of nearly 500 facilities and more being added all the time, Lineage, Inc., knows where to place new links in the cold chain.

In September 2025 the team at public radio program Planet Money reported a story called “How Refrigeration Took Over the World” that documented the intertwined nature of the global economy and the need to keep things cold.

That same story is being told in project data: Since January 2023 Site Selection’s Conway Projects Database has tracked more than 300 cold storage facility investments around the world. Among the major investors in the cold chain space is Novi, Michigan-based global REIT Lineage, Inc., which operates a global network of more than 485 facilities. Over the past six months alone the company has broken ground for a new facility in Hutchins, Texas (DFW metroplex); celebrated the third expansion since 2008 at its largest North American site in Hobart, Indiana; broken ground on an expansion in Louisville, Kentucky; acquired three facilities in Quebec; launched an expansion in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, and opened a new facility at Whakatu Industrial Park in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.

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