Article: First Park Meridian Campus: Achieving Sustainable Development and Cost Savings
(Fall 2009, Development)

First Park Meridian Campus, First Industrial's new 780,000 s.f. industrial park development near Seattle, used as case study to show how developers can help create a cleaner, more energy efficient supply chain.

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Article: Who's Who in the Buildings Market
(September 2008, Buildings)

Annual ranking of top players across all walks of the real estate industry, including private-and public-sector owners, developers, real estate brokerages and property management companies.

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Article: Buyer's Market
(September 2008, Trafffic World )

Growth opportunities are still available for investment in industrial real estate (particularly for all-cash buyers) during a volatile market facing a large-scale credit crisis.

Panel Participation: Capital Market Trends - Acquisition and Disposition
(September 2008, GVA Worldwide Conference)

Recent turbulence in global financial markets has had significant impact on the structure, timing and velocity of real estate transactions, particularly long-term net lease and sale-leaseback transactions.

Panel Participation: Logistics & Real Estate: Strategic Considerations Driven by Today's Energy, Economic and Planning Environments
(September 2008, GVA Worldwide Conference)

The current relationships among ports, rail lines and distribution centers are changing. By primarily examining the growing distribution markets of the Eastern United States, leading experts representing each of these interests chart a future course of action.

Panel Participation: Strategies to Mitigate Risk
(September 2008, CPN 2008 Net Lease Summit, New York)

The credit quality of the tenant and the real estate are not the only guards against lost value in a tough economy. Buyers need to evaluate everything from property type and geographic location to lease structure, number of tenants and alternative financing tactics.

Panel Participation: Developing a Business Model for 3PL Relationships: Are We Moving from a User-Provider Model to Real Partnerships?
(June 2008, 6th Annual 3PL Summit, Atlanta)

3PL users should be prepared to work with their providers as true partners to achieve genuine supply chain excellence. Specific best practices can be employed to ensure that these partnerships are simultaneously tactical and strategic.

Panel Participation: The State of North American Commercial Real Estate Affairs
(June 2008, Pan-American Summit, Mexico City)

Leading real estate developers from the NAFTA region discuss their perspectives on the current state of affairs, designed to advance the dialogue within Pan-American commercial real estate communities and promote the sharing of market knowledge.

Town Hall Meeting: The State of Industrial Real Estate
(June 2008, RealShare Industrial East, Newark, NJ)

Leading owners, investors, developers and service providers discuss what’s in store for industrial real estate this year and next, as well as forecasts for the logistics and supply chain industries — and the impact for everyone involved in the industrial transaction cycle.

Panel Participation: Congestion Plagues Chicago Infrastructure – New Intermodal Infrastructure
(June 2008, Real Estate Logistics Forum, Chicago)

Given Chicago’s transportation and infrastructure challenges, regional initiatives are explored that aim to assist transportation companies, incoming distribution organizations, and local residents and businesses in overcoming these obstacles.

Article: Blue-Collar Green
(June 2008, Urban Land)

First Park Meridian Campus, a new 780,000 s.f. industrial park First Industrial is developing near Seattle, is recognized at the leading edge of industrial buildings nationwide in terms of environmentally responsible development.

Special Report: Industrial Real Estate and Logistics
(June 2008, The Journal of Commerce)

Competitive pressures and a fast-changing global business environment have led the industrial development and logistics communities to seek more cooperation. Increasingly, industrial developers are bringing supply chain expertise in-house as logistics issues rise to the top of the development agenda.

Panel Participation: The Outlook for Leasing, Investment & Development in the New Jersey Industrial Market
(June 2008, RealShare Industrial East, Newark, NJ)

Senior-level executives from the leading owners, developers, investors and service providers from across New Jersey forecast the market for industrial real estate in the state, which remains one of the premier industrial markets in the Eastern United States.

Town Hall Meeting: State of the Net Lease Market
(April 2008, RealShare Net Lease Conference, New York)

A look at the current status of the net lease marketplace and how sale leaseback activity picks up as the economy slows. Industry leaders discuss who’s buying, who’s selling and who’s financing in today’s environment – and how those deals are getting done.

Investment Specialty Practice Board and Land Specialty Practice Board: Land as an Investment
(April 2008, SIOR Spring Convention, Washington, D.C.)

Land owners, developers, lenders and land equity partners explore the issues, benefits and pitfalls of investing in both raw and developed land.

Article: Long-Term Demand Drivers Intact for Industrial Real Estate Both in Chicago and Nationally
(March 2008, Illinois Real Estate Journal)

Businesses have been posting near-record profits for the past few years and reinvesting that money into their companies. Industrial real estate demand is being driven by these investments into new research & development, manufacturing and distribution facilities.

Roundtable: Industrial Real Estate Trends
(February 2008, California Real Estate Journal)

Underfunded infrastructure, new tenant demands, limited land, and global competition challenge the logistics and manufacturing sectors to keep California’s economic engine running. The best solutions are explored for sustaining the vibrancy of the state’s industrial markets.

Article: Supply Chain Reconfiguration, International Trade and Population Growth Drive Industrial Real Estate Decisions
(July 2007, Site Selection)

The increased complexity of the nation’s supply chain is driving companies to rely on their partners in the industrial real estate sector to provide the right facilities in the right locations.