The Wall Street Journal: Industrial Real-Estate Developers Are Hot on Cold-Storage Warehouses

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29 Jun 2022


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Industrial real-estate developers have been stepping up building cold-storage warehouses in the U.S. without tenants lined up for the space, betting that pandemic-driven changes in the way consumers buy groceries and meals are here to stay.

Nearly 3.3 million square feet of refrigerated warehouse space was under construction through the second quarter of this year nationwide without companies slated ahead of time to take up the sites, some 1,000% more than was built in 2019, according to a report by real-estate services firm CBRE released on Wednesday.

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