Nestled between several mountain ranges and with a population of about 44,000, the city of Hagerstown, Maryland, doesn’t come to mind as a hot spot for U.S. logistics warehousing. It probably should, however.
Near Interstates 70 and 81, 71 miles from Washington and 75 miles from Baltimore, Hagerstown fits comfortably within the country’s fourth-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA), which extends north into Delaware and south into the nation’s capital’s expansive northern Virginia suburbs....