Posts by McGowan Corporate Real Estate Advisors

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…

MCREA attended the 3PL Summit & Chief Supply Chain Officer Conference last week in Chicago that was dedicated to the future of 3PLs and logistics. The conference was run by EFT (Eye For Transport). The forum brought together high level executives in logistics and their manufacturer and retailer supply chain counterparts. A few notable speakers included executives…

For the third year in a row, Kevin McGowan CCIM, SIOR of MCREA will join industry leaders at the Third Annual Northeast Industrial Real Estate Summit on June 10th in Jersey City, NJ. The venue brings together top developers, investors and capital sources. McGowan will be moderating a panel focused on industrial developers and end-users…

Kevin McGowan CCIM, SIOR of MCREA will join 6 other SIOR brokers from major markets throughout North America on Wednesday April 8th for a unique interactive webinar which will include market overviews from experts from Dallas, Northern New Jersey, Chicago, Toronto, Mexico, and Los Angeles. The webinar will begin at 1:30pm Eastern on Wednesday April…