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Kate Nolan Bryden
Senior vice president at MRP Industrial
In the mid-Atlantic construction game, Kate Nolan Bryden is a superstar. Now in her sixth year at MRP Industrial, Bryden oversees the construction division of one of the region’s most prolific developers of industrial space.
In the last 12 months, Bryden has focused on executing the development plan for two seminal and very different projects: a large-scale industrial park in Bainbridge, near Port Deposit, Md., and an urban-infill logistics campus in southwest Baltimore known as City Logistics.
“In both cases, our teams have successfully navigated unpredictable supply chain issues, choppy market conditions, and other challenges to deliver the best buildings in their competitive sets while maintaining strong relationships with the surrounding municipalities, communities and local contractors,” she said.
In this year alone, MRP will deliver more than 6.2 million square feet of new Class A industrial space in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
“Along with those developments, we’re delivering miles of new public roads, new public water and sewer, and new natural gas and electric infrastructure that can service customers beyond our project boundaries,” Bryden said. “As we complete our projects and tenants activate our buildings, that beneficial impact becomes evident to outside observers, which is very rewarding.”
As it prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary in September, MRP is actively pursuing new opportunities for development and redevelopment. That’s on top of the almost 8 million square feet of development already in the pipeline across 943 acres. The focus for 2024 and beyond will continue to be on developing institutional-grade logistics parks.
“While we are going to be pursuing new development opportunities, much of my time in the imminent future will be spent preparing our freshly delivered projects for full-scale operation,” Bryden said. “Throughout that operational startup, we will work closely with tenants to support that effort and, in doing so, we’ll get a window into how their business works, which is always exciting. Watching operations ‘go live’ and getting to know the facility managers who will take over our buildings is a very rewarding part of the development process.”
