A recent press release from Arden Group, a real estate investment management firm focused on the top 25 US markets, might at first read as though the company had gone into the software business, with its talk of a best-in-class logistics real estate operating platform.

But the launch of Arden Logistics Parks instead takes the 32-year-old company into a new type of business: not just owning real estate but operating it with an internal team, as well.

Arden has "operated in multiple asset classes: hotel, office, and industrial," Barbara Rea, COO for the new Arden Logistics Parks, tells GlobeSt.com. "This is segregating out our industrial assets and making it an operating company."

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