As the economy continues to recover from the impact of the pandemic, investors are closely analyzing conditions in the current environment, including rising inflation, geopolitics, increasing interest rates and other factors. At I.CON East: The Industrial Conference, several capital market experts dove into what’s happening now and provided a forecast for the road ahead. Moderator […]
Land shortages, rapidly increasing e-commerce demand, and the need to be close to population centers are driving the shape of warehouses up instead of out. Two sites in the Bronx, New York, are making the most of the last mile by employing a multilevel design approach common in Asia but relatively new to the U.S. […]
California is the biggest user of cold storage in the U.S., with over 16.5 million square feet of cold storage space according to the Los Angeles Times, and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have more than doubled their refrigerated container capacity in recent years to address increasing import and export demand. Attendees […]
“Lights, camera, action!” Not words many people think of when it comes to industrial real estate, except, as a project tour of Kearny Point during I.CON East in Jersey City, New Jersey, made clear, maybe they should. With many people dramatically increasing their time at home over the past two years, content demand, on any […]
In “The Evolution of the Warehouse: Trends in Technology, Design, Development and Delivery,” authors Steve Weikal and James Robert Scott detail the industry advances, consumer trends and emerging technologies that are driving a rapidly growing sector. Although their work at the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab regularly immerses both Weikal and Scott in the topic, […]
