This week's headlines:

• Long-Term Solutions to “Snarled” Supply Chain
• Industrial Price Tags Soar by 20%
• Is Amazon Backing Down?
• Hines Eyes Atlanta for Industrial Park

Headlines:

• Singapore REIT’s $99M Chicago Play
• Drones Rise to New Expectations
• What Price Human Capital?
• Chicago Set to Receive Its First Multi-Decker

The supply chain remains a global issue. Appropriately, we turned to one of IAMC’s global members–the Northampton, UK-based Matt Whittaker–to enlighten us. Here are what the managing director of Property Services for Bis Henderson Group sees as the major sticking points in this ongoing, worldwide problem.

The expectation for environmental, social and governance (ESG) protocols has gained some teeth. An increasing number of institutional investors and operators are being judged by the rating agencies based on their performance in all areas of sustainability. So today, more than ever, a commitment to ESG has to be more than flowery words on a corporate website. 

With that in mind, Robert Kontur, director of Real Estate Operations for EnerSys in Reading, PA, shares his thoughts on what IAMC corporate peers need in order to create and maintain a sustainability program that produces results. 

Location, location, location. The old saying holds true as much for the industrial market as it does when people are shopping for a new home–especially in an environment where manufacturing and warehouse space is so hard to come by.