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E-commerce companies demand more flexibility in order to accommodate users' sortation equipment as well as the need for higher clear heights which allows for the installation of mezzanine space.
Brookfield Infrastructure, an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management, has committed to fund half of the required initial equity investment, currently estimated to be approximately $613 million.
The San Francisco-based firm states that the property is located near bulk transmission lines, a major fiber path, as well as less than four miles from Digital Realty's existing data center campuses in Ashburn, VA.
The Silverman Group is buying a 41,000-square-foot, mixed-use warehouse building from the tenant for $3.6 million and has selected JLL as the exclusive leasing agent for the property.
More than 1.4 million square feet of inventory has been converted to data centers since 2008 in the region. The pace of conversions has averaged 273,725 square feet since 2015, chipping away at nearly 2% of supply each
The Southern California industrial market is among the tightest in the country, and even the new supply under construction won't be enough to satisfy the demand.