Co-Warehousing Comes to the Industrial Sector

The past few years have been a time of massive growth in the U.S. industrial sector. Industrial space has been at such a premium many tenants have been signing leases in anticipation of future growth, while more and more developers have invested in building multi-story warehouses in urban cores.

But not all industrial tenants can or want to invest in large-scale warehouse facilities right away and sign long-term leases. Some start-ups, for example, may want to start with a smaller unit that fits their current business volume and grow from there. Other companies looking at expansion might also want a testing ground to play with their logistics networks. To serve that segment of industrial end-users private equity real estate firm Capstone Equities launched its Portal Warehousing concept last year, a sort of flexible warehouse solution offering the smaller spaces and shared amenities that have become common in the office co-working sector on a membership basis...