Although Jalisco has land available for the installation of foreign companies that are relocating their production plants as close as possible to the North American market, it is urgent that developers build speculative industrial buildings, so that companies can arrive and establish themselves as soon as possible. said the general director of the Jalisco Logistics Center (CLJ), Gabriela Martín.

In an interview with El Economista, he shared that due to the nearshoring phenomenon, companies from different sectors and from various countries arrive in Jalisco with the intention of settling in such short periods of time that they make it impossible to build the industrial warehouses they require, forcing companies to look for options in other entities.

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Many developers build to suit warehouses; but the current need of the market is for them to make speculative warehouses… Business is losing us because there are no warehouses built, there is land”, he pointed out.

Martín Íñiguez highlighted that the Acatlán de Juárez CLJ, located on the Guadalajara-Manzanillo submarket the seaport through which most of the merchandise from Asia enters-, has 500 hectares of land available with electricity, water, gas natural and connection to the railway, in addition to a controlled enclosure, but warehouses that are ready to be occupied are required.

“Those who are looking to settle with all this nearshoring come and say: I want a 5,000-square-meter or 10,000 or 20,000-square-meter warehouse already built, and they don't exist in the entire region. Not only in Jalisco, in all of El Bajío there are no industrial buildings already built”, he stressed.

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The general director of the Logistics Center indicated that there are currently 27 companies established in that industrial complex and, with data as of February 15, 2023, there are 12 projects under construction, of which six are new companies and the rest are expansions of the plants already installed that are also expanding.

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