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Local industrial market booms with early-year sales, setting promising stage

By , Daily Memphian Updated: April 02, 2025 3:48 PM CT | Published: April 02, 2025 4:00 AM CT

The local industrial real estate market grew fourfold in the first quarter over fourth quarter, indicating that 2025 could reverse three years of declines. 

Net absorption, the difference between occupied and vacant square footage, was 560,534 square feet in the first quarter, compared to 140,353 square feet in the final quarter of 2024, according to the latest report from Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Advisors. 

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Dima Amro

Dima Amro is a native Memphian who covers commercial real estate and economic development for The Daily Memphian. She received her B.A. in journalism at the University of Memphis and M.A. in investigative journalism at American University.


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