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Industrial Investment Activity Expected to Increase

Although the sector is healthy, investor interest also comes from the problems they now see in other sectors like office and retail.

By Brian J. Rogal | Updated on November 09, 2017

chi-FosterErik (5) Erik Foster of Avison Young

CHICAGO—The US industrial sector has entered a golden age, but its strengths should not be considered in isolation from other property types, especially when it concerns its ability to attract new investment. Industrial properties have steadily become more popular with investors, and that growing appeal is occurring as some clouds have appeared over other real estate investment options.

“It’s obvious that the industrial sector has a lot of positive momentum,” Erik Foster, a Chicago-based principal of Avison Young’s capital markets group, tells GlobeSt.com. But the factors that have driven that success, especially the rise of e-commerce and subsequent demand for new distribution facilities, has helped undermine the brick-and-mortar retail sector. And investors are now understandably reluctant to put their money into many retail spaces.

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