U.S. warehouse sizes doubled since 2000

​DALLAS – According to a new CBRE report, U.S. warehouses have doubled in size since the early 2000s.

Nationally, newly built warehouses average 185,000 sf. ​The report credits the rise in e-commerce for the growing size of industrial warehouses.

In Dallas-Fort Worth, warehouses built from 2012-17 average 247,304 sf, up from 135,000 sf since the 2002-07 development boom. The metro has the second highest new construction in the country.

Since 2012, 82.8 million sf of warehouse space has been built in DFW.