Renovations included converting 20K SF of truck court, an exterior area adjacent to an industrial building’s loading docks where trucks maneuver, into an exterior dock for delivery.

What they used to call "back-office" properties, industrial outdoor storage (IOS) space is now a $200-billion asset class that's firmly on the radar of institutional investors.

While the rebirth of urban industrial land represents a sea change, it can be difficult to separate the hype from the reality around how technologies like broadband or 3D printing might change ...

Big commercial-real-estate players from Brookfield to Fortress are snapping up industrial land. The market for industrial outdoor storage, or IOS, is worth about $200 billion, investors said.

IOS has grown from a niche market to a $200B asset class, with more tenants needing to use these spaces to store vehicles, equipment and other materials in a secure outdoor facility.