Symphony Pastries Needs 4x the Space, and That's an Industrial Broker's Job

Symphony Pastries, the family-owned dessert manufacturer based in Moorestown, is planning a new South Jersey production facility for 2027 that would quadruple its current capacity. Philadelphia Business Journal describes the move as a response to surging demand and cramped quarters at the existing plant. The company, owned by brothers Brett, Barry, and David Kratchman since 2024, recently acquired Classic Cake's pastry division and is launching a private label program for custom dessert production.

Quadrupling capacity for a food manufacturer is an industrial site selection problem: power capacity for commercial ovens and refrigeration, floor drains and washdown areas for food-grade sanitation, loading dock count for daily ingredient and finished-product truck traffic, and cold storage a standard flex building doesn't have built in. That search rules out most of the generic flex inventory on the market.

South Jersey's industrial market has plenty of speculative flex space, but food production tenants need buildings that already have or can support the utility infrastructure this kind of operation requires. If you're tracking industrial inventory in Burlington County, a confirmed food manufacturer actively hunting for a quadrupled footprint by 2027 is exactly the kind of tenant worth calling before the search becomes public.