SPONSORED: 20 years of logistics investing – Q&A with Clarion Partners’ U.S. industrial team

Clarion Partners’ industrial team has seen a lot of change investing in this property sector during the past two decades, as the marketplace has become more institutional and the supply chain, more global. Ecommerce has changed the nature of the demand, as has technology. In an interview published in the November issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, David Confer, managing director, fund portfolio manager – industrial; John Killian, managing director, fund CFO – industrial; Andrew Lowe, managing director, asset management – industrial; and Dayton Conklin, managing director, head of industrial transactions, discuss how these trends have influenced the building specifications and locations of industrial properties and how market players have adapted. Or not. “With nearly half of the investable universe that makes up the U.S. industrial sector more than 40 years old, … obsolescence and redevelopment are likely to be prominent themes in the sector d