Truck terminals and transload yards are essential to supply chain efficiencies. Investors are beginning to notice.

Oxford Properties Group is acquiring 149 distribution properties in 12 U.S. markets, including Dallas, Phoenix, Chicago and Tampa, Fla.

The strategy can help keep revenue coming in while the spaces are marketed to long-term users, according to some experts.

CRG is trying to connect with family offices and high-net-worth investors, as well as underrepresented investor groups, for its new logistics fund.

“A lot of the associates do not want to be forced to get something,” said a manager at an East Coast warehouse.

Major investors are pouring more and more money into these assets.

The fund has already acquired about 25 million sq. ft. of real estate and will look to buy about 25 million more.

Many spec projects are being leased up before construction even starts.

The firm offered to take over the industrial REIT for $18.70 a share, in a rival bid to Sam Zell’s Equity Commonwealth.