New York-New Jersey Port Ranked Top Distribution Market in JLL Study

Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal is a major component of the Port of New York and New Jersey. (Ken Lund photo/Flickr.com via Creative Commons License.)

NEW YORK CITY AND NEWARK, NJ—Increasing demands for rapid delivery and rising transportation costs are pressuring retailers and e-commerce companies to locate distribution facilities as close as possible to customers, factors that continue to drive industrial space planning decisions in the country’s number one distribution market, metropolitan New York and New Jersey, according to a new report from Jones Lang LaSalle.

In a golf course-themed research study, The Leaderboard: The Top 18 Distribution Markets in the United States, JLL says the market’s ability to service cities up and down the eastern seaboard, combined with its connections to the #3-ranked Central and Eastern Pennsylvania markets, offsets higher labor and real estate costs in the region.