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Warehouse developers bet on India as companies look beyond China
Land is getting hard to find in a sprawling industrial park in southern India where workers are scrambling to build modern new warehouses and factories for companies betting on the country’s economic boom or diversifying their supply chains beyond China.
Dr.G.R.Balakrishnan Mar 19 2024 Logistics (Warehouse)

Warehouse developers bet on India as companies look beyond China

“It is one of the most wanted places in India for European and American companies,” said S. Raghuraman, an official of the Greenbase industrial park, near plants run by Apple supplier Foxconn and truckmaker Daimler.Inquiries for leasing space in the park, run by Blackstone and real estate tycoon Niranjan Hiranandani, have gone through the roof, he added. “We are in talks with at least three clients looking to shift their base from China.”

Companies in the booming e-commerce and manufacturing industries also see India as a hub for exports while looking to boost sales to industries and domestic consumers amid a population of 1.4 billion. “We thought this is the right moment to enter India as there is a huge potential runway for growth over the next 15 to 20 years,” said Sandeep Chanda, the India managing director of one of the world’s biggest developers, U.S.-based Panattoni.

India’s infrastructure drive fuels high demand for land, leaving few plots in good locations, so that surging prices hit developers’ returns as rentals fall behind, executives said. Real estate consultants CBRE say land prices around the Greenbase park rose a fifth in 2023 to $3.6 million for 10 acres (4 hectares), or an area half the size of Buckingham Palace, with increases of more than 50% for some plots near New Delhi.

Sometimes a single piece of land can have as many as 50 owners.

Panattoni needed eight months to complete acquisition formalities for its complex near the capital “Land takes its own sweet time,” Chanda said, referring to the period spent untangling ownership concerns.