The nation’s most active export-focused ports are enjoying stabilizing industrial occupancy rates, according to a new white paper from Colliers International.

With rent prices down and landlords doling out concessions, now is a wise time to literally make a move, and Peerless Industries Inc. is doing just that.

Despite indications that the economy is recovering, the National Association of Realtors is advising caution before slipping on the rose-colored glasses.

The power company Calpine said Thursday that it has gotten the go-ahead to build the country’s first plant with a federal limit on greenhouse gas emissions.

The contract expands RiverRock’s presence in the industrial sector as well as its dealings with institutional clients.

The combined companies hope to offer a unique turnkey solution for owners and developers of data centers.

Given that the U.S. recession has left the retail market in shambles and the global financial meltdown has hindered trade activity, demand for distribution and warehouse facilities has taken a major hit, so the big news out of Charleston’s industrial market is something that is heard of quite infrequently these days. Rockefeller Group Development Corp. and MeadWestvaco Corp., developers of the 400-acre Rockefeller Group Foreign Trade Zone/Charleston industrial park in Berkeley County, S.C., have just landed a 1.1 million square-foot build-to-suit deal with automotive replacement tires marketer TBC Corp.

Northstar Commercial Partners has acquired a 370,000-square-foot distribution center in Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston.

Global industrial property REIT ProLogis has signed a lease renewal for 176,000 square feet of distribution space in Reno, Nev., with ITS Logistics, a third-party logistics provider.