“We have represented several clients who are looking to acquire and reposition warehouse properties. Today, these properties are not being used for ‘logistics uses,’ the term used in AB 98. For example, one of our clients has...more
6/12/2025
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On August 31, the California legislature adopted AB 98. Governor Newsom has until September 30, 2024, to sign or veto AB 98. If the bill becomes law, it will have impacts on all warehouse developments, regardless of whether...more
The economy is strong and growing — perhaps too quickly as the labor market remains tight. A surprising number of people are choosing to stay out of the labor market, for now, contributing to the supply chain disruptions...more
Despite the move to the suburbs and falling rental rates, Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast California Commercial Real Estate Survey panelists are bullish about the coming three years in the multi-family housing space....more
Allen Matkins recently hosted its 2021 Real Estate Development Law Update program to provide insight into economic factors, cases, and regulations impacting the industry. The program opened with an analysis of the current...more
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) recently released a 153-page preliminary draft staff report that analyzes one of its most controversial proposed rules in recent years: the Warehouse Indirect Source...more
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) recently released a draft of a proposed rule, the Warehouse Indirect Source Rule (Warehouse ISR). The Warehouse ISR, unlike development impact fees or other air quality...more
Economic forecasting is much easier than permit and regulatory forecasting, and nowhere more so than when it comes to industrial development and the local, state and federal agencies that control growth, particularly in...more
In Cleveland Nat’l Forest Found. v. San Diego Ass’n of Gov’ts (July 13, 2017), the California Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeal decision regarding the inadequacy of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions impacts analysis...more