Industrial

The latest deals, personnel moves and trends in the Midwest.

Driven both by e-commerce and demand coming from auto suppliers, Midwest markets like Louisville are having their best years ever.

This sector has been reinventing itself for millennia, and it will continue to do so, meaning now may be the time to buy more retail properties, CBRE's Spencer Levy tells attendees at Wednesday's CREW San Diego event.

How will the market respond?

“The growth of e-commerce has triggered a permanent, structural change in demand for these properties,” says Adam Mullen at CBRE.

However, 2017's 7% year-over-year decline in sales volume was met by a 7.1% increase in commercial property values, says Real Capital Analytics.

Atlanta's industrial market added 14.2 million square feet of speculative construction completions in 2017. But that's not the big story.

Stafford Commerce Center is in the Southwest industrial submarket on 4.869 acres proximate to Interstate 69, Beltway 8 and Highway 90, which provide access to the area's growing residential population.