Amazon. com Inc.’s decision to throttle back on its e-commerce operations threatens to slow the growth of the industrial-space sector, one of the hottest areas of commercial property.
With retailers today deriving large portions of their business from the internet and looking for ways to cut costs, many tenants are beginning to migrate away from expensive main streets into properties that previously were reserved for industrial uses. Brokers and developers who see this trend say the most likely retailers to make the shift are