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Blackstone Deal Brings Familiar Properties Back to Portfolio, Marking Bet on More Industrial Demand

Nearly 1,000 Properties Are Those Blackstone Sold in 2015
An industrial building at 3701 Flamingo Road in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is among the 179 million square feet of industrial buildings Blackstone said it wants to buy for $18.7 billion. Photo: CoStar
An industrial building at 3701 Flamingo Road in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is among the 179 million square feet of industrial buildings Blackstone said it wants to buy for $18.7 billion. Photo: CoStar
By Molly Armbrister & Mark Heschmeyer
June 4, 2019 | 8:08 P.M.

Blackstone's record $18.7 billion portfolio acquisition illustrates just how quickly the industrial real estate market has grown in four years: The New York private equity giant sold almost three-quarters of the portfolio's 1,336 properties in 2015 for less than half of what it plans to pay to buy them back now as part of the deal.

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