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New Jersey Industrial Pioneer Beat Amazon by Decades to the Potential of Warehouses

Charles Klatskin, an Innovator With an Outsized Personality, Made Mark in Meadowlands, Exit 8A Port Region
Charles Klatskin founded Forsgate Industrial Partners, a family dynasty in North Jersey industrial real estate. (Forsgate Industrial Partners)
Charles Klatskin founded Forsgate Industrial Partners, a family dynasty in North Jersey industrial real estate. (Forsgate Industrial Partners)
CoStar News
October 23, 2020 | 12:46 AM

A half century ago, the Meadowlands of northern New Jersey were thought of as a home to pig farms and marshes. But Charles Klatskin was one of the early developers to see the potential for warehouses and logististics hubs, decades before online retailer Amazon would make that building type a hot area of commercial real estate.

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