When it comes to assessing business health, is the logistics real estate market a mirror for the economy at large?

Big changes are in play across the nation’s vast network of warehouses and distribution centers. In particular, our guest on this episode says, we’ve reached an “inflection point,” whereby “your real estate footprint is the backbone to your supply chain.” John Kirkman, supply chain leader with real estate giant CBRE, is our guide to changes in the size, shape, function, layout and location of logistics facilities. We discuss the impact on those operations of automation, sustainability, e-commerce and the labor market, on the cusp of a new year. And we examine whether warehouses are competing for space, power and people with the huge data centers that are going up all over the country, to support advances in artificial intelligence. Is there room for everyone? Hosted by Bob Bowman, Editor-in-Chief of SupplyChainBrain.

Show notes:

A report from CBRE: “What Is Sustaining Industrial and Logistics Investment and Its Interest As Investors’ Preferred Sector?”