Industrial properties are complexes with more than one warehouse that house multiple companies. Their main characteristic is precisely being a condominium, similar to corporate buildings, with a gatehouse, manager, etc., but laid out horizontally.

Meanwhile, street warehouses are storage locations, usually single-tenant and often lacking all the amenities and facilities of a logistic condominium, such as 24-hour security, maneuvering yards, common areas, etc.

Siqueira explains that all the advantages of properties contribute to the "flight to quality," as these attributes help establish a new operation with higher quality during an expansion phase.

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The executive director explains that the "flight to quality" occurs due to two factors: the quality of the assets - the amenities - and the operational gain that the tenant's logistics achieves.

"One of the most common problems is the traffic caused by truck maneuvers at the entrances of the developments. In industrial complex, this issue is typically not present because there is an external parking area where the truck driver can arrive and park. As a result, the overall traffic in the region improves, but many people do not measure the impact this has on the organization of cities. Therefore, when developing these assets, it significantly improves the situation," he explains.

An example that can be given is the concentration of logistics operations, where a company has operations scattered across various developments but consolidates everything in one location.

"Sometimes the client is in several warehouses; they expanded as they could and ended up in various separate developments, and then they want to integrate the operation. That is also normal to happen," he concludes.