The keyword on the Southeast's infrastructure scene is ports.Although roadway and railway projects are seeing some attention,ports are the critical link to commercial real estate growth inmany Southeast regions.
According to the recent Urban Land Institute/Ernst & YoungInfrastructure 2012 Report, trans-Atlantic freight could doubleover the next 15 years, and deep-hulled, super-post-Panamaxcontainer ships will be able to pass through a widened Panama Canalchannel into the Atlantic by year-end 2014.
"Infrastructure won't reach capacity without the real estatesolution alongside," says John Carver, head of the industrial realestate group at Jones Lang LaSalle. "At the same time, thecommercial real estate industry is aware that it can be moreproductive with development money by clustering alongside the railand seaport systems."
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