Posts by McGowan Corporate Real Estate Advisors

My family has been in the real estate business since the 1970s. With a long term deep focus on industrial real estate, we work nationwide and often get involved with private equity and their portfolio companies at various times during investment cycle. Often during the initial investment during the LBO stage, we will arrange a…

McGowan Corporate Real Estate Advisors is proud to be a panelist at the Petrochemical Update’s 2nd annual Northeast U.S. Petrochemical Construction Conference 2017 taking place over June 19-20 at Pittsburgh’s Sheraton Hotel, Station Square. The 2017 Conference will examine the building blocks for the current and planned second wave of mega petrochemical projects in the…

TAMPA, FL., April 11, 2017 – Today, the Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC) awarded Kevin McGowan, President, McGowan Corporate Real Estate Advisors, the prestigious IAMC Fellow designation. IAMC is the elite trade association in the country for corporate real estate consultants focused on the needs of an industrial real estate portfolio. IAMC members include top site…

McGowan moderated a panel at the WERC 2106 conference in Providence, RI. The recording of the event is linked here. http://www.werc.org/2016/2016r_site_selection_what_to_remember_and_avoid.aspx The following article appeared in the WERCSheet July/August 2016 edition “You can have a great location, a wonderful property, and be in a very nice community, but if you can’t attract, retain and sustain…

Kevin McGowan, founder of McGowan Corporate Real Estate Advisors has organized two heavyweight panels at this week’s WERC (Warehouse Education and Research Council) Conference in Providence, RI. McGowan will moderate the following panel: Site Selection: What to Remember and What to Avoid! Moderator: Kevin McGowan SIOR, CCIM, President, McGowan Corporate Real Estate Advisors Panelist: Timothy Feemster, President,…

We attended the ACG M & A East conference at the Philadelphia Convention Center. While the hotel sector has long known that separating real estate from the operating companies will produce an optimal capital structure, industrial distributors and manufacturers often own their own warehouses. At the conference, we spoke with a number of attendees about…

Many industrial users congregate their distribution centers nationally around the major industrial markets which are served by roughly 20 institutional landlords. Thus a knowledge of tenant and landlord movement in LA, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and New Jersey has tremendous value for the decision making process of our corporate clients. Today McGowan will participate in the…

If the user owner of a building owns an asset that will not fit the core bucket for the institutional investment community, a seller should look for buyers that can pay the most regardless of geographic location of the asset. Barring a 1031 buyer, high net worth, and sovereign wealth, the single tenant net lease buyers have been very aggressive in…

The 2016 WERC Conference Committee, made up of logistics thought leaders and subject matter experts, got together this week in Providence, Rhode Island (the site of the 2016 WERC Conference) to discuss what’s hot and innovative in the world of warehousing, supply chain and distribution. The 2-day-long meeting enabled these industry leaders to pull together…

The decision to outsource to a 3PL is driven by the consumer /customer of the business which drives service requirements. At a high level however, there are three main reasons to consider a 3PL. 1) FLEXIBILITY – Real Estate, Space, Labor, Systems, Transportation, Strategy all may need to be changed and a 3PL offers an…