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Tariffs Disrupt Supply Chains and the Outlook for Industrial Real Estate

  • April 21, 2025
The Trump administration’s tariff policy has unfolded rapidly and continues to evolve. Although the highest tariff rates on most U.S. trading partners have been paused for 90 days to allow time for trade negotiations, a flat 10% tariff remains in effect on most goods, and additional tariffs are expected on electronics, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. When combined with previously announced tariffs on steel and aluminum, and the 145% tariff on most goods from China, the average effective tariff rate is the highest in more than a century. The dollar has declined in response to the tariff announcements, further increasing the effective cost of imported goods.
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Power

Navigating Current Power Challenges and Future Demands

  • March 28, 2025
It’s an exciting time in the commercial real estate industry with overall data center growth showing a greater demand for power capacity, crypto, mining and automation, according to David Hickey, global managing director with Hickey & Associates. Hickey moderated a panel on the critical need for power in industrial development at NAIOP’s I.CON West conference this week in Los Angeles.
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Cold storage facility

The Cold Storage Buzz

  • March 28, 2025
Cold storage could be a tempting hot spot for hungry CRE investors, agreed panelists at I.CON West this week in Los Angeles. When end-users need refrigerated or frozen space or are priced out of a new ground-up development, they often turn to leasing existing industrial buildings. However, existing industrial buildings come with their own challenges, not the least of which is being able to match the existing usage of the building to the specificity that an end user requires.
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Reverse logistics

Recapturing Value with Hybrid Reverse Logistics Facilities

  • March 28, 2025
If we were to rebuild our supply chain network, how would we rebuild it, knowing what we know now about returns? How would we rebuild a network if we could start over today knowing that backwards flows were going to be as important as forward flows? Chad Autry, Ph.D., Myers Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, shared some key design principles for a reverse logistics network.
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U.S.-China trade winds

Navigating Trade Winds: U.S.-China Tariffs and E-commerce

  • March 27, 2025
U.S. tariffs have been on the rise over the last several years, often targeting China and affecting global manufacturing with major implications for logistics. If tariffs continue to rise as expected, what will this shift mean for West Coast industrial real estate?  
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Western U.S. development - California

Western U.S. Industrial Market Outlook: What Lies Ahead?

  • March 27, 2025
Population migration continues to benefit industrial markets in the Sunbelt and Mountain West. What does this portend for the Western U.S. industrial market in terms of capital flow? What macroeconomic factors could impact this sector, and what other challenges and opportunities are on the horizon? All good questions, but the bywords of the moment are “wait and see.”
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Solar and battery storage in industrial

Industrial Solar and Battery Storage: Best Practices, Making Money and Avoiding Risk

  • March 27, 2025
In a session at I.CON West, Ryan McEvoy, principal and founder of GAIA, and a leader in sustainable real estate development, noted that 92% of all new energy throughout the world is produced by solar; in the U.S., that figure is 66%, with California leading the way. “California solar continues to grow year over year, and on average, utilities in California are run on batteries roughly two hours a day,” he said.
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Chris Thornberg

Examining Political Narratives and Economic Realities

  • March 27, 2025
“The first thing I have to talk about today is what we think is happening in our economy,” began Chris Thornberg, Ph.D., founder of Beacon Economics and keynote speaker at I.CON West this week in Los Angeles. “The other thing I'm going to talk about is what's actually happening in the economy today. That is to say, our objective statistical reality. The world I see in the data on a day-to-day basis.”
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