MIAMI—Jones Lang LaSalle has made its move, repositioning its US-based Ports
Airport and Global Infrastructure desk from California to the East Coast. Rising levels of port-centric industrial real estate developments along the Atlantic seaboard prompted the move.

John Carver, who heads this industrial real estate group, has relocated from Los Angeles to South Florida. He plans to grow the practice and serve the firm’s clients throughout the Gulf and East Coast, Latin America and the Caribbean.

“Long Beach was a great place to build a practice because a lot of the demand drivers started there, but most of our activity growth migrated has to the east coast so it made a lot of business sense for us to move to the Atlantic,” Carver tells GlobeSt.com. “After looking at different locations, Miami ended up being the most natural place for us, in part because of the expansion of the Panama Canal and also the Latin trade underway.”