The Factory Boom Is Real. The Housing for It Is Not.

October 14, 2026

CRE Daily reported this week that Avison Young is now tracking 124 proposed or announced U.S. manufacturing projects worth about $3.4 trillion in potential investment, with roughly two dozen plants already under construction and about $500 billion committed. Most of the industry is reading that as a site selection story. I read it as a housing story.


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