Report: E-Commerce Set To Disrupt Cold Storage Capacity

Cold storage is heating up in the United States, according to a new report from CBRE Industrial and Logics. With e-commerce sellers like Amazon changing where food is stored and how it gets to consumers, analysts expect a major cold storage shift from retail to industrial properties.

Currently the country has approximately 3.6 billion cubic feet of food-commodity cold storage capacity covering 180 million square feet of industrial space, CBRE says. Compare that to the 2 billion cubic feet of similar capacity covering 300 million square feet of retail space..   ...more

Ken Notes: This could be a huge market for Wisconsin, I wonder if we could get the UW`s to come up with greener tech`s for these facilities...