Guanajuato has continued to maintain the rate of net industrial demand at the end of 2023, reporting an increase of 20% compared to the amount registered at the end of the first quarter of 2022.

While the gross demand indicator allowed this market in the Mexican shoal to position itself in fifth place at the national level when comparing the accumulated figure of 2022 with the total of 2021, where it managed to exceed 545 thousand square meters per year.

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These figures are ratified with the results issued by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography when presenting the Monthly Indicator of Industrial Activity by State, where it registered a growth of 10.5% year-on-year, comparing the figures for December 2022 with figures for December 2021. 

Specifically, the growth in the manufacturing industry of Guanajuato registered an annual increase of 10.6%; as well as in the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy, supply of water and gas through pipelines to the final consumer, where the annual increase was 9%.

In turn, the demand for the first quarter of 2023 in Guanajuato remains concentrated in warehouses ranging from 1,500 to 10,000 square meters, 85% of which are concentrated on the Silao-León and Irapuato-Abasolo submarkets.

Let us remember that Guanajuato has been the market that showed the highest vacancy at the national level and that it went from exceeding 9% in March 2021 to its decrease to 4% registered two years later.

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As for the sectors that mobilize demand, the automotive branch manages to close three new investments from companies already located in the region and which they estimate exceed 500 million dollars.

These expansions are related to the manufacture of components for electric vehicles, where two of these investments will be installed in Irapuato, while the third will be for the city of León.

Another ten new technology projects will also be installed in the entity with an estimated investment of 861 million dollars as part of the transition that this market manages towards industry 4.0. Among these projects, the construction of the hyperscale Data Center of the company Layer 9 is advancing, which opens the doors for more investment projects in new technologies and information.