COVID-19 pandemic? Oil price crash? During this unprecedented time with unprecedented events, DFW industrial real estate—if you can believe it—is cruising into a promising future with even more upside potential.
Distribution centers are among the fastest-growing class in the industrial sector, particularly due to e-commerce irreversibly impacting the way people shop. The coronavirus crisis, coupled with consumer preference and demand for high-speed shipping service, has boosted demand for last-mile delivery. As a result, design flexibility has become of paramount importance.
The start of a new decade is an excellent time to look back and reflect on how real estate markets, industries, and returns have changed over the past 10 years. Seeing what new technologies, businesses, and policies altered the market can help investors gain insight into changes that could come in 2020 and beyond. As of
The Easton Group acquired property in Hialeah Gardens and plans to develop it into a distribution warehouse. This would add to the industrial development boom in the northwest corner of Miami-Dade County and potentially help serve the growing e-commerce distribution sector.
Although there are some rising uncertainties, the industrial sector appears to be weathering the current crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak better than other industries. Despite nationwide shutdowns of construction sites, warehouse developments were deemed essential in most states. In 16 of the current top 20 markets for industrial space construction, workers are actively building, according
