The Wall Street Journal: Cold Storage for Food Is Hot Real-Estate Play
![The Wall Street Journal: Cold Storage for Food Is Hot Real-Estate Play](https://23791392.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/23791392/hubfs/news-2021-03-24.jpg?width=1920&name=news-2021-03-24.jpg)
A surge in online grocery shopping is intensifying demand for food-storage warehouses, sparking billions of dollars in new real-estate development.
Shopping for groceries online was taking off even before the pandemic. Services like
Amazon Fresh, FreshDirect and Misfits Market offered a convenient alternative to the supermarket. Demand soared when people started worrying that they could catch Covid-19 on a trip to the store.