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The Close Ties Between Real Estate and Supply Chains Uncovered: The Colliers-SCRC Webinar Reveals It All!

NC State SCRC

I hosted an incredibly informative webinar today with real estate experts Bill Condon and Matt McGregor of Colliers International for a “fireside chat”. The impact on real estate. And the other area of real estate that is improving is industrial real estate. This is unlikely to go down.

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Flexport Acquires Convoy’s Core Technology

Supply Chain Matters

After reports last week indicating that Seattle based digital freight start-up services provider Convoy was preparing for a possible sale or winding down of business operations there are indications that freight logistics platform provider Flexport will be the acquirer of Convoy’s underlying technology.

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How E-Commerce Is Reinventing the Humble Warehouse

MIT Supply Chain

Logistics startups such as Ohi are repurposing vacant urban real estate. A Seattle startup, FLEXE, has gone a step further by creating what amounts to the Airbnb of warehousing. Ohi converted a former office in New York City’s Garment District into a micro-warehouse for e-commerce fulfillment.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

In fact, leasing of industrial real estate rose along the East Coast last year, including a 15 percent increase in Savannah, Georgia, where vacancy rates dipped to 5 percent in the fourth quarter, Colliers Savannah’s year-end Industrial Market Report said. ’s East Coast.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

In fact, leasing of industrial real estate rose along the East Coast last year, including a 15 percent increase in Savannah, Georgia, where vacancy rates dipped to 5 percent in the fourth quarter, Colliers Savannah’s year-end Industrial Market Report said. ’s East Coast.

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

As e-commerce giants like Amazon expand, they’ve been drawn to California’s inland cities, where real estate is cheaper and the labor force is plentiful. This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers.

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Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, and One Worry: Robots

BlueYonder

As e-commerce giants like Amazon expand, they’ve been drawn to California’s inland cities, where real estate is cheaper and the labor force is plentiful. This year alone, Amazon announced new fulfillment centers in Eastvale, Redlands, Fresno and most recently Sacramento, where the Seattle company said it would hire 1,500 workers.