The end of 2021 aims to be a historic year for industrial real estate demand, both globally and in Mexico, shaped by logistics and manufacturing that went through unimaginable scenarios after the Covid for most analysts.

The logistics saw the supply chains that depended mainly on Asia upset and that with the Covid showed the vulnerability of the offshoring models that had been adopted in America and Europe due to cost savings.

On the manufacturing side, the situation of relocating production processes was supported by the legal framework of the T-Mec, already close in July 2022 to its second year of implementation, which managed to further strengthen the advantages of Mexico to be a safe supplier of multiple components of industries such as aerospace, automotive, medical supplies, electrical and electronic, to name the main ones.

Even with the importance of the manufacturing sector that moved the largest number of transactions nationwide, large logistics center operations took the lead in the amounts where large distribution centers stand out in the main cities in the hands of the largest cargo mobilizers such as Amazon , Mercado Libre, among others.

In Monterrey, the market that so far leads to industrial demand at the national level almost 20% of the demand for the first 11 months of the year corresponds to a manufacturing company that occupied two industrial facilities on the Salinas Victoria corridor in an important industrial park in the area.

Another three BTS stand out in this entity for their amount and correspond to the manufacturing operations of AGP Glass, FAB Operation and Brembo with 93, 40 and 30 thousand square meters, respectively.

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On the logistics operations side, Amazon and DSV stand out, located on Apodaca with 37 thousand square meters and Ciénega de Flores with 36 thousand square meters, respectively.

In the Mexico City industrial market, Amazon logistics with 95 thousand square meters in a warehouse located in CPA Cuautitlan Park took the lead in the capital, followed by the TMM logistics group that was located on an important industrial park in Tultitlán .

Once again, the CTT area (Cuautitlán, Tultitlán and Tepotzotlán) sets the standard with the help of developers such as Parks, Prologis, CPA, O'Donnell, Advance, Hines and Vesta, among others, they registered closures of ships between 10 and 20 thousand square meters where Tenants such as DHL, Alimentos Lion, Bimbo Automotriz, among others, are accommodated.

Another important city such as Saltillo had a decisive presence of BTS throughout 2021, the most prominent being Sanhua Automotriz, Lennox, Philips and NYX all of the manufacturing sector with areas between 27 thousand and 79 thousand square meters, the largest operation being that of the Sanhua Automotriz company, on the most important corridor in the city, Ramos Arizpe.

Ciudad Juárez, which occupies the fourth position at the national level in regards to gross demand from January to November 2021, dominated with the presence of manufacturing activity on the southern corridor of the city with the closures of Invetec with 69 thousand square meters , Werner with 39 thousand, Ambú with almost 33 thousand square meters and Lear Corporation with 22.5 thousand square meters.

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In general terms, manufacturing was the trigger for the main ones in the north and the border as detailed with Monterrey and Ciudad Juárez, while Tijuana shared the impact of logistics and manufacturing investments in similar parts.

Tijuana, with the lowest vacancy at the national level, generated a frenzy to match supply with demand, although having made it out of date has continued to generate a significant impact on its rental prices and capitalizing a part towards Tecate that has benefited.

The most prominent operations in Tijuana were a 52.5 thousand square meter logistics company on the Pacific-Nordika submarket, followed by the closure of a 42.7 thousand square meter aluminum segment manufacturer in the Florido-Boulevard submarket, the same corridor where the Watkins Manufacture rented almost 36 thousand square meters.

Guadalajara, Mexicali and Reynosa are also portrayed among the largest closings of the year, where the aforementioned operations are just the prelude to the close of 2021 where you will find details, developers and specific locations on the Solili platform.

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