Graceada Partners Becomes a UN-Supported PRI Signatory

Graceada Partners, a California-based real estate private equity firm, has become a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). They join an exclusive group of corporations from more than 130 countries around the world who pledge to incorporate ESG initiatives into their investment decision-making.

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The Rise and Expansion of the Outpost Economy

“The secular shift in how we work, live, and think about our life is opening opportunities in outpost economies around the U.S.,” says Graceada Partners in a new report. These are defined as smaller cities with a quality of life that draws workers who have become untethered from their current living situation or location.

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There’s Amazon and Then There's Everyone Else in Industrial

Of the ten largest industrial projects underway in the US this year, Amazon accounts for eight of them, with a total footprint of 28.3 million square feet—an area about the size of New York City’s Central Park, according to CommercialEdge.

At the same time, investment sales prices are on a steady climb for industrial products, averaging roughly, as of June 2021, $94 per square foot. Unless Amazon is a tenant. In that case—and since the beginning of last year, buildings with Amazon as a tenant accounted for 7% of all sales volume—investors will gladly pay a premium for the asset, according to CommercialEdge, of $145 per square foot.

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