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Investors Launching More Industrial Projects

CHICAGO—The tightness of the market, and the intense competition for sites, has not dissuaded some investors, who have decided to launch their own projects.

By Brian J. Rogal | Updated on August 31, 2015

CHICAGO—The region’s industrial market has gotten very tight, with more and more investors scrambling to buy up the available properties. But some investors have decided to jump into this lucrative market by developing their own product. Plymouth Meeting, PA-based Exeter Properties Group, for example, has just purchased a 38-acre land parcel at 163rd St. and I-355 in southwest suburban Lockport and will become a joint-venture equity partner with the seller, Tandem Development Group LLC, in developing the Lockport Business Center, a two-building speculative distribution center totaling 612,000 square feet.

“This way, they are able to build best-in-class real estate, instead of purchasing what the market will give,” Erik Foster, an Avison Young principal, tells GlobeSt.com. Foster and principal Mike Wilson, who both specialize in industrial capital markets, worked in conjunction with principals Brendan Kelly and Todd Heine, who specialize in supply chain strategies, in representing Tandem.

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