Definitely warehouses. I live within 1 mile of 2 of them. Warehouses arrived just after 4 large Amazon facilities arrived. Personally, I like to believe they're for future Made In USA Mega manufacturing storage facilities.
What they may actually be intended for depends on what they look like.
If they have Garage style doors and no obvious loading dock. One could feasibly store vehicles. As you could readily drive them into and out of the warehouse.
Possible they could be converted into factories of one form or another. Used to work at an Aluminum plant that was a converted Warehouse complex.
There’s also the issues of housing the multitude of illegals.
Could also serve as temporary Barracks/Housing for Troop Call ups. There’s been rumors of mobilizing National Guard and Reserves. As well as a Draft.
Officially. For Bidens Ukraine shenanigans. Unofficially. Rumors abound. I’ve heard several different stories.
Some say that there’s a conventional War the WH Planned on possibly having to/Being forced to fight after domestic clean up here. Hence why they allowed for shipping off so much equipment to Ukraine. They wanted to create space in our inventory. Including National Guard Stock. And get the Defense Industry ready to start refilling stock and expanding production operations.
Military is giving the impression of gearing up for something. At any rate. At least equipment wise. Because they’ve been planning on replacing their M4s and M16 series for quite literally decades at this point. So much so it was a running joke. But never actually pulled the trigger on it. Till now. And in an entirely new Cartridge as well. Not to mention green lighting a new Optic that’s essentially a computer for grunts.
Not to mention rumors of plans to reintroduce the “Technically a War Crime” 25mm Smart Grenade launcher. They were trialing in Afghanistan. With allegedly great success Among the grunts and Special Forces. I might add. Until someone remembered the Geneva Suggestion existed. And the fun toy the grunts had was technically a “War Crime” under the Suggestion. So the Army pulled it and made up some excuses before someone connected the dots.
Reportedly the Airforce is already brainstorming and building prototypes to replace the F-35 and F-22.
B-52s are apparently getting a new round of upgrades. Including new Engines. Though in the past upgrading the B-52 seems to have just been the Airforces knee jerk response to anything unexpected.
Army has a new light tank. That they are stubbornly refusing to call a Light Tank for some reason.
Upgrades to the SPGs in service.
Abrams Tanks are getting a completely new overhaul package. Versus further upgrades to the current package.
Bradley’s are slated for a new upgrade package.
Navy has finally started laying the keels of the Constellation-Class Frigates.
A new class of Destroyers is in the works.
Work is proceeding on new Carriers.
Not to mention the ongoing Massive Reorganization of the Military back-towards a Conventional War composition. Versus the “War on Terror” type that’s characterized the last 20-30 odd years.
Verdicts out on against who though. Some think a dust up with the Chinese to eliminate the CCP allow the Chinese to replace it with something uniquely their own. That or the Border situation would go Hot. With the crowds dropping pretenses of being normal illegals and switch to actively trying to seize and hold territory.
Others were indicating Aliens ala little Green men. Some others thought we’d be pulling a doomguy and actively fighting hordes of hell.
As far as I can tell, they get used. We have a metric shit ton of them out here in Katy and west of Katy, TX. Many are still being built. Katy is about 30 miles west of downtown Houston.
In a world where everything is delivered to your door, you don’t need brick and mortar stores anymore, but you do need warehouses. The brick and mortar stores will close and be replaced with something else.
Industrial vacancy is extremely low, compared to office space. There is very high demand for industrial. Building on spec means it is ready to go when tenants need it.
Also, with inflation, the cost of construction keeps going up so it's better to build now, for less money, than waiting a year or more and having the cost of construction continue to go up.
The location is basically a central hub for many areas. I live nearby just over the Pennsylvania line. I70 intersects I81 in Hagerstown Maryland. I70 is East/west and I81 is north south. We are practically touching 4 states here, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. From here, Baltimore, Washington DC and several other locations are easily accessed. Makes sense for major distribution centers to be located here.
Build to suit buildings. Not that hard to figure out. Roughly 90% of Industrial Real Estate Developments are build to suit. Basically, they just build empty shells (Like what you and many others are describing), and then sell to them a property management company that specializes in industrial properties like Prologis (the largest industrial REIT in the world. Also the largest REIT in the world period), who then finds someone to rent it out to and finishes the building to their specifications.
Typically there's a few years between the initial building and the "finalization" of the project, as they have to take bids on the properties, let the prospective tenants tour the properties, then hire architects, engineers, etc. etc. to design the finalized building, then they have to actually build the last stages of the project, etc. etc.
Most of them are probably gonna end up as wholesale warehouses or distribution centers since that's the Big demand now given how much e-commerce has taken off in the last decade or so. Some may end up as data centers, manufacturing centers (like machining shops), etc. etc. Heck, there's even a chance some may end up as assembly plants for things like vehicle parts (like putting together brake rotor assemblies for Chevy for example) or other types of manufacturing.
The reason see so many of these types of projects near highways and major cities/metropolitan areas, is because of ease of access. Regardless of what it ends up as, its more convenient for the potential tenants if they have easy access to a major roadway to get materials, move product, etc. etc.
u/Prayingforus20 pointed out that they're building stuff like this all around Chicago. That's because Chicago is the absolute center for logistics in North America. It doesn't matter what you're shipping or how you're shipping it (train, truck, etc.), if it moves by land on the continent of North America, it ends up in Chicago at some point or another because of how the roads and railways are laid out.
So the Chicago market is particularly competitive and oversaturated, meaning a lot of projects go bankrupt there and have to sit in litigation for years as the banks settle out who actually owns what and try to find a buyer at their price so they minimize losses.
Find out who owns the land. Maybe you'll come across some clues.
Arrive around lunch time. If you see construction workers taking a break, chat them up and ask what's going on. Building purpose, owners, etc. A lot of times they know things. I've gotten a lot of sales leads by doing this.
EDIT: I will mention this....Amazon is effectively trying to re-make the distribution of their goods across the last mile. They think the job can be done for even less than USPS with their huge subsidy (or maybe they think that subsidy is going away soon). It's dirt cheap to start a distribution center - like $10k. But if you really want to make big money you need to be able to process and deliver a lot of orders. 60 miles as the crow flies from Chambersburg PA is about 3 million people.
Many along I-69 through Indiana as well. I think they were going to be FEMA detention facilities. They are grey concrete and ginormous. But it looks like construction has been delayed on many. God bless GEOTUS for saving this country and us from the planned destruction of America.
Deportation Processing Centers.
Ideally
That would be great.
To the OP, are you certain they are "warehouses?" Or possibly those "smart city" camps they're trying to put us all in?
Definitely warehouses. I live within 1 mile of 2 of them. Warehouses arrived just after 4 large Amazon facilities arrived. Personally, I like to believe they're for future Made In USA Mega manufacturing storage facilities.
I like your thinking! Lets hope
did not think of that. I was thinking illegal housing.
What they may actually be intended for depends on what they look like.
If they have Garage style doors and no obvious loading dock. One could feasibly store vehicles. As you could readily drive them into and out of the warehouse.
Possible they could be converted into factories of one form or another. Used to work at an Aluminum plant that was a converted Warehouse complex.
There’s also the issues of housing the multitude of illegals.
Could also serve as temporary Barracks/Housing for Troop Call ups. There’s been rumors of mobilizing National Guard and Reserves. As well as a Draft.
Officially. For Bidens Ukraine shenanigans. Unofficially. Rumors abound. I’ve heard several different stories.
Some say that there’s a conventional War the WH Planned on possibly having to/Being forced to fight after domestic clean up here. Hence why they allowed for shipping off so much equipment to Ukraine. They wanted to create space in our inventory. Including National Guard Stock. And get the Defense Industry ready to start refilling stock and expanding production operations.
Military is giving the impression of gearing up for something. At any rate. At least equipment wise. Because they’ve been planning on replacing their M4s and M16 series for quite literally decades at this point. So much so it was a running joke. But never actually pulled the trigger on it. Till now. And in an entirely new Cartridge as well. Not to mention green lighting a new Optic that’s essentially a computer for grunts.
Not to mention rumors of plans to reintroduce the “Technically a War Crime” 25mm Smart Grenade launcher. They were trialing in Afghanistan. With allegedly great success Among the grunts and Special Forces. I might add. Until someone remembered the Geneva Suggestion existed. And the fun toy the grunts had was technically a “War Crime” under the Suggestion. So the Army pulled it and made up some excuses before someone connected the dots.
Reportedly the Airforce is already brainstorming and building prototypes to replace the F-35 and F-22.
B-52s are apparently getting a new round of upgrades. Including new Engines. Though in the past upgrading the B-52 seems to have just been the Airforces knee jerk response to anything unexpected.
Army has a new light tank. That they are stubbornly refusing to call a Light Tank for some reason.
Upgrades to the SPGs in service.
Abrams Tanks are getting a completely new overhaul package. Versus further upgrades to the current package.
Bradley’s are slated for a new upgrade package.
Navy has finally started laying the keels of the Constellation-Class Frigates.
A new class of Destroyers is in the works.
Work is proceeding on new Carriers.
Not to mention the ongoing Massive Reorganization of the Military back-towards a Conventional War composition. Versus the “War on Terror” type that’s characterized the last 20-30 odd years.
Verdicts out on against who though. Some think a dust up with the Chinese to eliminate the CCP allow the Chinese to replace it with something uniquely their own. That or the Border situation would go Hot. With the crowds dropping pretenses of being normal illegals and switch to actively trying to seize and hold territory.
Others were indicating Aliens ala little Green men. Some others thought we’d be pulling a doomguy and actively fighting hordes of hell.
Excellent insights, and write up! Thanks for the time in writing this up fren
As far as I can tell, they get used. We have a metric shit ton of them out here in Katy and west of Katy, TX. Many are still being built. Katy is about 30 miles west of downtown Houston.
In a world where everything is delivered to your door, you don’t need brick and mortar stores anymore, but you do need warehouses. The brick and mortar stores will close and be replaced with something else.
I think you are correct u/solarsavior
Industrial vacancy is extremely low, compared to office space. There is very high demand for industrial. Building on spec means it is ready to go when tenants need it.
Also, with inflation, the cost of construction keeps going up so it's better to build now, for less money, than waiting a year or more and having the cost of construction continue to go up.
good points. It is obvious retail is on the way out with all the looting, $20 hour workers. Looks like everything is going to be amazon.
Also the cost of debt/money... finance at a fixed rate now for a predictable, and you can always refinance if the rate drops...
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The location is basically a central hub for many areas. I live nearby just over the Pennsylvania line. I70 intersects I81 in Hagerstown Maryland. I70 is East/west and I81 is north south. We are practically touching 4 states here, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. From here, Baltimore, Washington DC and several other locations are easily accessed. Makes sense for major distribution centers to be located here.
Build to suit buildings. Not that hard to figure out. Roughly 90% of Industrial Real Estate Developments are build to suit. Basically, they just build empty shells (Like what you and many others are describing), and then sell to them a property management company that specializes in industrial properties like Prologis (the largest industrial REIT in the world. Also the largest REIT in the world period), who then finds someone to rent it out to and finishes the building to their specifications.
Typically there's a few years between the initial building and the "finalization" of the project, as they have to take bids on the properties, let the prospective tenants tour the properties, then hire architects, engineers, etc. etc. to design the finalized building, then they have to actually build the last stages of the project, etc. etc.
Most of them are probably gonna end up as wholesale warehouses or distribution centers since that's the Big demand now given how much e-commerce has taken off in the last decade or so. Some may end up as data centers, manufacturing centers (like machining shops), etc. etc. Heck, there's even a chance some may end up as assembly plants for things like vehicle parts (like putting together brake rotor assemblies for Chevy for example) or other types of manufacturing.
The reason see so many of these types of projects near highways and major cities/metropolitan areas, is because of ease of access. Regardless of what it ends up as, its more convenient for the potential tenants if they have easy access to a major roadway to get materials, move product, etc. etc.
u/Prayingforus20 pointed out that they're building stuff like this all around Chicago. That's because Chicago is the absolute center for logistics in North America. It doesn't matter what you're shipping or how you're shipping it (train, truck, etc.), if it moves by land on the continent of North America, it ends up in Chicago at some point or another because of how the roads and railways are laid out.
So the Chicago market is particularly competitive and oversaturated, meaning a lot of projects go bankrupt there and have to sit in litigation for years as the banks settle out who actually owns what and try to find a buyer at their price so they minimize losses.
Couple going up along I-70 as well.
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Find out who owns the land. Maybe you'll come across some clues.
Arrive around lunch time. If you see construction workers taking a break, chat them up and ask what's going on. Building purpose, owners, etc. A lot of times they know things. I've gotten a lot of sales leads by doing this.
EDIT: I will mention this....Amazon is effectively trying to re-make the distribution of their goods across the last mile. They think the job can be done for even less than USPS with their huge subsidy (or maybe they think that subsidy is going away soon). It's dirt cheap to start a distribution center - like $10k. But if you really want to make big money you need to be able to process and deliver a lot of orders. 60 miles as the crow flies from Chambersburg PA is about 3 million people.
My place of employment has worked on some of the construction for these and they are labeled as data centers on the permits and plans.
Maybe mining coins???
They are standing by for when they shut down retail brick and mortar stores, that is why they are not stopping the rampant shoplifting.
FEMA Camps? 2 built within 2-10 miles of me too.
dallas area as well
And Atlanta
Could they be data centers?
Many along I-69 through Indiana as well. I think they were going to be FEMA detention facilities. They are grey concrete and ginormous. But it looks like construction has been delayed on many. God bless GEOTUS for saving this country and us from the planned destruction of America.
Probably for holding ventilators.
They ruined the heartland of Illinois doing the same shit there is empty warehouses and entire vacant subdivisions everywhere.
They built 1500 houses in a big subdivision and nobody moved in after two years.
The same thing in AZ along I-10.
Same in SC. I think it's real estate people flaunting at this point. Dumping cash on pet projects, maybe thinking the ROI isn't the goal.
We are seeing the same here in Australia. No idea who is funding these.