Site selection involves evaluating on-site and off-site factors of properties under consideration. This post discusses four key concepts in site selection, common on-site and off-site factors for distribution, and common on-site and off-site factors for manufacturing uses.

Navigating Industrial Land Use through an Increasingly Difficult and Complex Entitlement Environment

Companies who are indecisive about leasing or purchasing an industrial property are often still in the exploratory phase of site selection. They have not obtained internal alignment on the project and are not ready to actively pursue available options. Therefore, their tire kicking is often a symptom that the company has not completed a prior required step in the site selection process, not that they are pre-disposed to being indecisive or unaccepting of anything less than perfection.

Finding available infill properties for land-intensive industrial occupiers is typically much more challenging than office, warehouse or manufacturing uses. Due to these challenges, site selection for land-intensive industrial occupiers must be designed differently to increase the odds of success.

7 key points to help verify the electrical supply of an available industrial building will meet an operations requirements

Important information should always be verified, even if from reliable sources. Companies must prioritize the information they verify in industrial real estate projects.

Navigating Industrial Land Use through an Increasingly Difficult and Complex Entitlement Environment

Recent studies have indicated that U.S. corporations are planning on investing capital to improve efficiency in their home countries and services to their current customers 2.In employing such investments, industrial firms should strongly consider the role of its real estate site selection and improved performance.