Episode #002
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Atlanta’s industrial market, Southeast industrial real estate demand, and the forces shaping the next wave of development take center stage in this podcast. Douglas Biggs, Vice Chair, Principal of Colliers, Price Weaver, Principal of BroadPoint Partners, and Taylor & Mathis partners Walker Wellford and Hamilton Reynolds join host Andrew Taylor to reveal what’s really happening on the ground across the Southeast’s industrial submarkets right now.
The group walks through current vacancy and absorption trends compared to the pandemic era, the sustained demand drivers behind Atlanta’s rise as a top-five U.S. industrial market, and how e-commerce growth continues to fuel warehouse expansion across the Southeast. They also dig into what tenants want from buildings today, including power capacity for automation, employee amenities, trailer parking, and office finish levels that would have been unheard of a decade ago.
They take a candid look at development economics: rising land costs, tightening entitlements, escalating construction and tenant improvement costs, and the resurgence of small-bay industrial as institutional investors warm back up to multi-tenant product.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
Topics Discussed:
- Atlanta industrial vacancy, absorption, and deal volume trends
- Southeast infrastructure, ports, and inland port drayage savings
- E-commerce growth and its impact on warehouse demand
- Building design trends: power capacity, automation, and employee amenities
- Clear height standards and institutional investor expectations
- EV fleet charging and rising industrial power demand
- Big box versus small bay industrial development
- Land, entitlement, and construction cost challenges
- Data center competition for industrial land
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