Ashfaque Chowdhury, President, Supply Chain – Americas and Asia Pacific, XPO Logistics, Inc. and Erik Caldwell, President, Last Mile Logistics, XPO Logistics, Inc. (Q4 2020)
Supply chain executives at XPO Logistics discuss the surge in e-commerce, which is going to play out for a long time to come.More
Ben Conwell, Senior Managing Director and Practice Leader, eCommerce & Electronic Fulfillment Specialty Practice Group, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (Q4 2020)
Delivering on consumer demands poses a challenge for real estate and supply chain decision-makers.More
Matt Powers, Executive Vice President, Retail/E-Commerce Distribution, JLL and Rob Wheeler, Senior Vice President, Industrial Integrated Portfolio Services , JLL (Q4 2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the rise in e-commerce and created opportunities for fulfillment jobs, along with a need for increased automation and training.More
Future-proofing, building vertically, and mixed-use product integration are three trends that will shape the design of industrial assets for years to come.More
Karen Thuermer, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q2 2020)
Locations in the middle part of the country provide an alternative to coastal seaports while providing quick intermodal connections to the nation’s interior.More
Matt Powers, Executive Vice President, Retail/E-Commerce Distribution, JLL (Q1 2020)
Area Development sat with Matt Powers, Executive Vice President, Retail/E-commerce Distribution, JLL at our Charlotte Consultants Forum after his presentation, “Preparing Your Community - Remaining Nimble in an Evolving Economy”, for a discussion on the evolution of retail site selection and last mile distribution.
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Ron Crum, Practice Leader - Industrial Site Selection, CSRS, Inc. and Taylor Gravois, Principal, CSRS, Inc. (Q2 2019)
If site selectors take the time to identify and communicate their key criteria to economic developers — who take the time to listen — the end result will be a perfect match!More
Laurence Kahn, Senior Director, Industrial, Franklin Street (Q2 2019)
Area Development sat with Larry Kahn, Senior Director, Industrial, Franklin Street, at our Miami Consultants Forum for a discussion on rail-served site selection and industrial development.More
Bradley Migdal, Senior Managing Director, Business Incentives Practice, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (Q1 2019)
Following our Miami Consultants Forum, Area Development discussed the current and evolving state of the site selection industry and industrial real estate market with Brad Migdal, Senior Managing Director at Cushman & Wakefield.More
Today’s businesses aren't pursuing LEED certifications to the extent that they did in the past because sustainable development is now a given — it’s demanded by the market.More
Following our Consultants Forum, Area Development discussed the state of industrial real estate in an evolving world with Rob Wheeler, Senior Vice President, Integrated Portfolio Services, at JLL. More
In order to be close to their target markets, e-retailers are locating warehouses in urban locations and taking advantage of these densely populated areas’ built-in employee bases.More
Ben Conwell, Senior Managing Director and Practice Leader, eCommerce & Electronic Fulfillment Specialty Practice Group, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (Q4 2017)
Reviving dead malls as warehouses is not as easy as it may seem; they’re more likely to become “lifestyle” destinations or mixed-use complexes.More
Walter Kemmsies, Ph.D., Managing Director, Economist and Chief Strategist, U.S. Ports, Airports and Global Infrastructure Group, JLL (Q4 2017)
Damage from recent hurricanes could have a ripple effect across U.S. seaports, underscoring the rising demand for more sophisticated industrial real estate and infrastructure.More
Dan Emerson, Staff Editor, Area Development (Q3 2017)
With new applications for leading-edge technologies seemingly being developed on an almost daily basis, the eventual implications for business and consumers, and on aspects of daily living, are only just beginning to be understood.More
As robotics continue to evolve in both agility and intelligence, the day may come when site selectors can take labor availability out of the location equation.More
Craig Meyer, President, Logistics and Industrial Services Group for the Americas, JLL (Q1 2017)
The continued growth of e-commerce, promised infrastructure upgrades, and new and creative development are some of the trends affecting the industrial real estate market.More
Bill Bavagnoli, President, Specialized Storage Systems (Q1 2017)
In order to optimize productivity and profitability of your warehouse, consider product size, the available area, and the method of product retrieval.More
Environmental Site Assessments typically used to certify that a site is free of contamination from previous uses may leave companies vulnerable to unexpected additional costs for environmental remediation. Additional investigation and protection is merited at industrial sites.More
Rich Thompson, International Director and Leader, Supply Chain & Logistics Solutions, JLL (Q4 2016)
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, companies need to be innovative and nimble in facing the last-mile, same-day delivery challenge head on.More
Joshua Wright, VP, Economic and Workforce Development, Emsi (Q4 2016)
It doesn’t get as much media attention as self-driving cars and trucks, but automation has already arrived in the warehousing industry. And it soon could be much more commonplace.More
Stephen Thompson, Senior Economic Officer – San Francisco , Ontario's Ministry of International Trade (Q4 2016)
A new generation of collaborative robots is increasing industrial efficiency and productivity while the increasing affordability of advanced robotics technology has the potential to quickly make smaller businesses more competitive. A key to unlocking that potential will be meeting the industry’s need for skilled labor to drive robotics-related research and commercialization.More
Adam Wasserman, Managing Partner, GLDPartners (Q4 2016)
Despite its many challenges, California — which ranks as the world’s sixth-largest economy — and its often overlooked Central Valley offer many opportunities for manufacturing and distribution investment.More
Walter Kemmsies, Ph.D., Managing Director, Economist and Chief Strategist, U.S. Ports, Airports and Global Infrastructure Group, JLL and Ali Rezvani, Moffatt & Nichol’s Commercial Services Group (Q3 2016)
Growing Intermodal volumes are promoting investments by port authorities in inland ports and by railroads in logistics centers.More
Larry Gigerich, Executive Managing Director , Ginovus (Q1 2016)
Reliance on a community’s telecom and energy infrastructure has heightened the importance of these factors in the location decision-making process for both the providers and users of cloud computing services and the IoT.More
Megan Birney, Director of Strategic Affairs, Wiser Capital LLC (Q4 2015)
Although companies can reap huge savings from installing solar energy, they may need to employ some creative strategies in order to secure project financing and must also consider the real estate available for such an installation.More
JLL’s research reveals that, although the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will remain the primary U.S. gateways, Gulf and Eastern Seaboard ports are anticipated to capture even more West Coast discretionary cargo when the new Panama Canal opens next year. More