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title: Father Time Taking Toll on Logistics Warehouse Supply
description: Warehouse inventory well into middle age and not living up to modern distribution needs
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# [Father Time Taking Toll on Logistics Warehouse Supply](https://blog.aiag.org/father-time-taking-toll-on-logistics-warehouse-supply)

 Written by [Mark Solomon, FreightWaves](https://blog.aiag.org/author/mark-solomon-freightwaves) | Jun 8, 2022 6:28:50 PM

The unprecedented boom in logistics warehousing demand is now about a decade old. During most of the past 10 years, it was a safe bet that the aging of the industrial warehouse stock wasn’t considered a high priority. Stakeholders had their hands full just keeping up with demand for capacity that hit like a ton of bricks and has barely abated.

Yet the warehouse inventory hasn’t gotten any younger, and in some markets it is getting downright old. In a March report, real estate services giant JLL Inc. [(NYSE: JLL)](https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/JLL/overview) estimated that the average age of the country’s industrial warehouse product is 42 years. Buildings constructed more than two decades ago account for three-quarters of the total industrial supply, with more than one-quarter of all inventory over 50 years of age, JLL said. 

[Read full article here. ](https://freightalent.com/freight-news/father-time-taking-toll-on-logistics-warehouse-supply/)

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