Irecently was a guest on The Industrial Real Estate Podcast.

Its host, Chad Griffiths, is a fellow industrial real estate broker and Society of Industrial and Office Realtor. We share a passion for industrial real estate and authoring books about our craft – his, Industrialize, and mine, The SEQUENCE. Our 60 minutes together was not quite Mike Wallace-worthy, but for two professionals geeking over truck doors, it was close.

As I reflected on our conversation, a thought occurred. In the time Chad and I have brokered — he more than 20 years and myself over 40 — how many classes of industrial real estate have become obsolete?

As the mind dump morphed into a review, I believed it to be column-worthy. So here goes.

Concrete block structures

In the 1960s and 70s, the standard for small- to

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