Cushman & Wakefield posts record Q1 leasing revenue — industrial tenants now want automation-ready floors with higher-spec power, not just square footage
Cushman & Wakefield hit a record Q1 leasing revenue, with the company flagging an industrial-market shift: tenants are no longer leasing on square footage alone — they want facilities that can support automation, robotics and substantially higher power requirements. For industrial FM, that translates into hard specs: upgraded substations, redundancy on the electrical side, floor-flatness tolerances for AMRs/AGVs, and roof/structural load for rooftop solar. The leasing data confirms what site-selection consultants have been saying for a year.