The metropolitan area of Mexico City is characterized by being a complex city with a population of over 20 million inhabitants with an average density of around 66.71 inhabitants per hectare, according to the Andean Development Company (CAF).

The daily traffic environment and the layout of its roads, which mix an ancient city with modernity, make it an unavoidable reference to the American continent.

There, housing, corporate, industrial, commercial activities and those complementary to all these uses are mixed.

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A varied and extensive commercial activity takes place in the capital that has had a great impact due to the changes in consumption habits that were already forming part of daily life and that are accelerating as a result of the pandemic.

The E-commerce Institute and the Mexican Online Sales Association (AMVO) reported in a docuserie that electronic commerce in the Mexican capital had grown by 81% between 2020 and 2019. The figures that will come after 2021 will surely maintain a growth activity also very prominent.

In the chapter corresponding to Mexico, they address the factors that become relevant due to the accelerated digital transformation that the pandemic brought with it.

Omnichannel, changing consumer habits, the role of mobile channels, operations and logistics, new collaborative models, the role of marketplaces and new business models are the most relevant factors.

Thus, logistics, electronic commerce and retailers have a predominant role in the industrial demand that has developed throughout 2021. Just one month before the end of the year, the capital reported a cumulative figure of just over one million square meters, only surpassed by Monterrey at the national level, according to data monitored by Solili.

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We have seen the closure of large department stores on the outskirts of the capital and significant activity in areas closer to urban centers, such as the case of Vallejo

which represents 22.5% of the capital's gross demand during 3Q 2021.

Altogether Vallejo, Toluca and Tepotzotlán concentrated 84% of the demand at the end of the third quarter of 2021, with a large part of the activity concentrated there directed to the logistics sector.

The projections towards 2022, after the forecasts in the appearance of new variants of the covid, will further strengthen electronic commerce in our country, which will advance to new logistics models for the distribution of goods in record time.

The multiple advantages associated with this business model will continue to be maintained, the main ones being the possibility of maintaining social distancing on the consumer side and on the part of the company, cost savings and the possibility of internationalization.