Four Midwest cities make Amazon’s HQ2 shortlist
The HQ2 sweepstakes are heating up as e-commerce giant Amazon has announced the 20-city shortlist for a second North American headquarters. The 20 metro areas,…
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Grocery-anchored investment options: hard to swallow?
Due to a number of factors, traditional grocers' markets are losing market share, leading investors away from grocery-anchored shopping centers. But according to new research…
Amazon, e-commerce providing boost to Detroit’s industrial market
The automotive industry has always been a key part of Detroit's economy. The news that automotive production slowed in 2017, then, should have meant a…
Surviving the retail apocalypse: Polsinelli experts offer a guide
By now, the headlines are familiar: Brick-and-mortar is dying, crushed by Amazon and the ever-growing popularity of online shopping. And the numbers appear to back…
Amazon’s big spillover effect boosting industrial market
Amazon continues to make a push in urban areas, building distribution facilities across the Midwest in the hopes of delivering their products ever faster to…
Are all Midwest cities Amazon HQ2 longshots? Not all of them
Steven Polivy, chairman of Akerman's Economic Development & Incentives Practice, has been studying the habits of Amazon. And when it comes to HQ2? Polivy says…
They might be longshots, but that doesn’t mean that Midwest cities aren’t still vying for Amazon’s HQ2
Richard Schuen has no trouble listing the merits of Columbus: an educated workforce, a magnet for high-tech start-ups and an ideal location in the center…
Amazon HQ2 coming to the Midwest? Researchers don’t think so
How likely is it that Amazon's second headquarters, one that the retail giant says will be equal to its current headquarters in Seattle, will end…
RCM and SIOR ask: Do you have an Amazon strategy?
The industrial market has been on a hot streak since 2012? Is it time for an inevitable slowdown? Or will the good times continue?
CIP’s Transportation & Logistics Conference: The future has arrived
Picture a giant metal cylinder dotted with holes in its walls and large truck bays at its base. Then picture an army of drones flying…