2018: Dynamo Year Ahead for Industrial
There is everything going for it this year. Big Capital is heavily on the warpath with more cash than ever looking at older, smaller and tertiary property with as much effort as they do with “A” product. Occupiers are armed with low tax rates and incentives for new plant, equipment, and improvements. Technologists are advancing innovation to increase cash flows with robotics, automation, ecommerce and sharing. At the top, the Developer-in Chief is intent on making commercial real estate and U.S. Industry the biggest winners in the economy.
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Great Example of Creative Space
This is a great example of Creative Space. It comes from Industry City in Brooklyn and shows a 14,000 square foot space they currently have available. There are 120 desks which works out to 8.5 people for every 1000 square feet. It is the information factory of the future.
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Using Spiders, Extractors, and Crawlers for Insights and Leads
Spiders, Extractors, and Crawlers are all software tools that go out and search metadata to retrieve results that can be helpful to your business. They are often used to search for emails. One popular tool, once endorsed by Mike Lipsey, president of The Lipsey Company, is the eGrabber, a lead generation software. I’ve used it for many years but customers have become so overwhelmed that I question the effectiveness of HTML mail any longer. So far, the tool I use that tracks emails comes standard in Salesforce and counts the number of times your email has been opened. This provides metrics that can refine your marketing program.
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Jim Klein, SIOR, Interview on Last Mile
“Some e-commerce players use their warehouses much like they use computer servers,” Klein said. “They figure out what the best space is, what the most valuable space is, and they time it so it is more seasonal. And that’s the revolution that is coming. You can monetize your warehouses and get more rents by sharing it with different tenants than you can just by getting one tenant.”
Entire Article at Bisnow
and attached The Rise Of Urban Last-Mile Logistics Brings Warehouse Renovations And Higher Rents – Industrial
Industrial Real Estate Observations- Fall 2017
The industrial real estate business keeps changing. I pay close attention to trends because they lead to deals. These are a few observations for end of 2017.
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What Is Space Sharing?
Space Sharing is a new version of a very old concept. An owner or occupant can put excess space up for rent and let tenants make flexible space commitments. Technology eases the sharing process with on-demand electronic exchanges and connected tools for measurement, accounting and security. Other variations of the same concept are Co-Working and Space as a Service (SaaS). All share the same goal of dividing space and time into smaller increments that can be charged out at flexible and generally, higher rates. It’s as simple as posting the Sharing Space and finding tenants to fill it.
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