Large warehouse breaks ground in Miami’s Allapattah

Longpoint Realty Partners and Vivo Real Estate Group recently broke ground on a 107,632-square-foot cold storage warehouse in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood at 2260 N.W. 27th Ave. Called Point 27th, the warehouse facility is projected to be finished early next year. It will include high-efficiency refrigeration systems, a glycol system, 37 dock-height doors, two ramps, 35-foot clear ceilings, […]

Amazon Signs Another Big Warehouse Lease in Southern California

The king of e-commerce has expanded again with another warehouse lease over 1 million square feet in Southern California. The property spans over 60 acres at 3945 Lytle Creek Road in Fontana, Calif., according to leasing marketing materials. The site is just off the Sierra Avenue exit on Interstate 15, about 12 miles northwest of Downtown San Bernardino. […]

Property Management Success: Cool Heads for Cold Storage

Over the past several years, cold storage has become an increasingly heated industrial specialty. According to Grand View Research, the climate-controlled storage sector, worth $36.9 billion as of 2023, is expected to grow 17.5 percent annually by 2030. Much of this demand is structural. In a recent CPE Viewpoint, David Greek of Greek Real Estate Partners cited increased […]

Biden Increases Tariffs on Chinese Imports for Computer Chips, Electric Vehicles

During President Joe Biden’s administration, billions of dollars in factories making semiconductors, electric vehicle parts and solar panels were built partly to take advantage of federal subsidies meant to bolster U.S. production of these goods. Now Biden’s put some of those signature legislative items to the test. Biden on Tuesday approved higher tariffs on various cheap Chinese […]

Industrial Big Box Leasing Is On a Tear

2024 could be the third-highest year for industrial big-box leasing, CBRE projects. Even though a spate of new construction in 2023 brought a record 413 million SF to market, it expects that abundant supply to be short-lived. “Investor sentiment has significantly improved from last year as industrial operating fundamentals remain solid and the credit market […]

Fed’s Powell: Rate Cuts Likely Delayed This Year

If inflation continues, long-anticipated interest rate cuts may not happen this year, the Federal Reserve chair said. Interest rates influence mortgage rates. WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell cautioned Tuesday that persistently elevated inflation will likely delay any Fed interest rate cuts until later this year, opening the door to a period of higher-for-longer […]

Business Rent Tax Reduction Set for June

A cut in the state’s commercial lease sales tax, from 4.5% to 2.0%, will begin on June 1, weeks earlier than originally expected. Business owners will see an earlier-than-anticipated reduction to the state’s lease tax, beginning in June rather than July, state leaders said. Florida’s commercial lease sales tax rate, also known as the Business […]

Getting in the Heads of Industrial Tenants

An excess of supply in some industrial markets has led to more rentable options and more favorable leasing terms for tenants. With new construction starts taking a more than 70 percent dive since early 2022, however, according to a 2023 Savills report, demand is likely to quickly outpace new deliveries. Until then, tenants have their […]

Industrial Rents Rise as New Pipeline Rebalances

National industrial in-place rents increased by 7.6% year-over-year to an average of $7.74 per square foot in January as the industrial new supply pipeline undergoes a rebalancing, according to CommercialEdge’s February Industrial Report. The national vacancy rate rose 20 bps month-over-month to 4.8% as nationwide, an increase of 80 basis points over the last 12 […]

Cold Storage Is Hot — and It Will Stay That Way for A While

Forget labs or data centers. The true mission critical infrastructure of American life is the 3.7 billion square feet of big, boxy refrigerated warehouses that have recently become a real estate asset of interest. Significant changes in grocery shopping, restaurant operation, pharmaceutical storage (including new diet drugs), online ordering and meal kits, agriculture, food manufacturing […]