For over 200 years, JLL has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage, and invest in commercial real estate properties. Securing prime industrial real estate is critical to remaining competitive in today’s landscape. How you locate your optimal site, find the right building, or optimize your distribution network is changing as consumer demands redefine supply chain management strategies. It is crucial to work with a real estate partner that understands your unique challenges. Through a powerful combination of supply chain expertise, market intelligence, and data-driven technology, JLL delivers a one-stop shop to help you save time, reduce costs, and unlock business value.

Why is JLL the right choice for distributors?

• Industry-Leading Team: The #1 U.S. Industrial Tenant Rep business, with an 800+ team across 50 markets delivering in-depth knowledge and timely solutions.
• Integrated Industrial Solutions: A comprehensive platform of advisory and implementation services, including supply chain logistics analysis, site selection, build-to-suit development, and facility management, maximizing ROI and saving time.
• Global Supply Chain Expertise: JLL has unmatched global capabilities in supply chain and logistics, providing innovative strategies and insight.
• Unrivaled Market Insight: 450+ global researchers provide market intelligence, tracking leasing and investment activity, supply chain trends, and industry dynamics.
• Collaborative and Results-Oriented Culture: With a focus on teamwork, excellence, ethics, and diversity, JLL prioritizes client needs, delivering high-quality service while also promoting sustainability, philanthropy, and community engagement.

Industrial occupier solutions:

• Tenant Representation: Find the best spaces or negotiate lease terms to help your business thrive.
  • Business & economic incentives
  • Market research & intelligence
  • Portfolio & transaction management

• Retail & e-commerce solutions: Solve your real estate and distribution needs, whether you’re a retailer, retail property owner, or industrial developer.
  • Site Selection
  • Alternative uses for “Dark Stores
  • Last mile strategy
  • Reevaluate footprint & distribution network

• Supply Chain and Logistics Solutions: Save time, reduce costs, improve services, and minimize risk.
  • Network Strategy
  • Transportation cost reduction
  • Performance assessments
  • Facility design and implementation
  • Site selection – Manufacturing and distribution
  • 3PL outsourcing strategy

Links to Research/Case studies/Tech/Misc.:

Tenant Demand Study:
Using JLL local market intelligence across nearly 60 U.S. markets, we gathered robust tenant data—where they are looking, what industries are driving activity, and how demand is impacted by external economic influences—to give you a thorough analysis and understanding of industrial real estate demand for 2024-2025.

Quarterly Outlooks and market reports:
Discover the latest insights and trends in the industrial sector with the quarterly JLL United States Industrial Outlook report, providing valuable information for industrial occupiers.

Horizon Hobby Case Study:
Horizon Hobby’s partnership with JLL sets radio-controlled company on an accelerated path to improve their distribution real estate strategy.

JLL Technology to power your business:

• Network Analysis Calculator tool: Model your supply chain network and compares distribution locations in a matter of minutes. It answers top questions, such as, “how many distribution centers should we have, and where?”, “how do we get closer to our end consumer?” and “how do we decrease delivery times?”
• Right Size Assessment tool: Determine the optimal building size, based on specific storage needs like racking, pallet height, clear height and aisle width.
• Blackbird: JLL’s patented 3D real estate market intelligence technology, powered by our proprietary database MarketSphere. It’s an immersive real estate market intelligence experience that visualizes the market and equips our clients with the intel they need to make more informed, data-driven real estate decisions.

Ready to learn more?

To speak with a member of the NAW team please contact Adam Isenberg at aisenberg@naw.org or (202) 872-0885.