Property design, construction, material handling, and amenities that matter to industrial occupiers.
High level guidance to align real estate with the objectives of your organization.
Specific methods to execute your strategy and employ best practices throughout your real estate activities.
Connecting industry topics with industrial real estate in meaningful ways.
Site selection involves evaluating on-site and off-site factors of properties under consideration. This post discusses four key concepts in site selection, common on-site and off-site factors for distribution, and common on-site and off-site factors for manufacturing uses.
Every company wants to avoid property maintenance issues during their occupancy of a property. While there is a common focus on the immediate economic results of leasing a property, most industrial tenants should pay closer attention to how they have negotiated property maintenance obligations.
One of the main areas I recommend industrial occupiers pay close attention to in lease negotiations are the responsibilities of who maintains, repairs, and replaces building systems and components under a lease.
In this post I cover the basics of cold storage from someone who represents companies looking for cold storage. I review the cold storage features most commonly of interest to cold storage users and property owners when they evaluate cold storage facilities.
The primary objective of the supply chain real estate professional is to align their real estate portfolio with their company's objectives. Alignment of real estate and overall business targets can be a complex process involving a wide variety of corporate stakeholders, including corporate finance, operations, and capital markets. This process can often be reduced to balancing efforts to reduce expenses and drive revenue.
We found that the bay and column spacing within a warehouse can have a significant impact on key performance indicators (KPIs) for warehouse occupiers in ways that are not always obvious. In this post I discuss bays and column spacing in a warehouse and why they are important for supply chain real estate participants to consider when a) designing a new warehouse location and/or b) perhaps re-designing an existing warehouse.
…fire sprinkler systems have evolved from little more than a perforated pipe to a highly technical engineered system capable of extinguishing the most combustible materials capable of being stored. Since fire codes and fire systems require professional interpretation and expertise, it is imperative that supply chain companies work with experts to mitigate any risk to their desired storage plans.
Navigating Industrial Land Use through an Increasingly Difficult and Complex Entitlement Environment