Contegra Construction recently began putting up the panels for World Wide Technology's twin one million square foot facilities at Gateway Commerce Center in Edwardsville, IL..
ST. LOUIS—The rise of e-commerce has benefitted few metro areas as much as St. Louis. Its central position in the US, plus a dense network of highways that stretch out to every point of the continental US, has companies of every kind clamoring to set up distribution facilities here.
“We're on a really good roll here, with 19 straight quarter of positive absorption,” Jon Hinds, a St. Louis-based first vice president of CBRE, tells GlobeSt.com. “And the industry that has made the biggest difference is e-commerce.”
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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.
