COLUMBUS—The rise of e-commerce has transformed centrally-located cities such as Columbus into hot industrial markets. NorthPoint Development, for example, just broke ground on a one million-square-foot warehouse in Columbus. JLL's Columbus office partnered with the Riverside, MO-based development firm and will lead the marketing effort for the property.
Located on a 106-acre property near the Rickenbacker International Airport and Norfolk Southern intermodal, the cross-dock warehouse will have a clear height of 36', a height that is becoming more common in many distribution-heavy cities, and ample room for car and trailer parking. Company officials said the site could also hold a second, roughly 500,000-square-foot building.
“We view the Columbus industrial market as firing on all cylinders,” Dan Wendorf, a Columbus-based executive vice president and supply chain specialist for JLL, told GlobeSt.com. The company recently put out a special report on the industrial market here and the role it plays in the nation's distribution network.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
