Border Boom Could Bust: How Tariffs Risk `Damaging A Real Good Thing`

Lee & Associates’ Enrique Volkmer calls himself “the happiest guy in town” after returning to his hometown of Laredo in 2016 to broker real estate deals for third-party logistics companies and other industrial tenants.

In just the first two months of this year, Volkmer racked up 11 new lease signings.

Those deals have become exponentially bigger and more plentiful since the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement went into effect in 2020, helping propel a fast and furious mission to shift manufacturing away from China to Mexico. The industrial associate who once sought greater opportunity in metros like San Antonio believes the best is yet to come...   ...more

RSK: Who said the tariff situation doesn`t affect the industrial sector, especially border cities. Great example.