Ecommerce Coming to Town

Not all retail is bricks-and-mortar anymore, but it turns out that e-commerce companies need space—office space (the internet needs people to take care of it)—and South Florida is beginning to attract these retailers. They’re looking for flexible use space for the development of new programs and services, and also centrally located space that’s convenient to transportation and their peers, Charles Cohen tells us. Charles owns  the Design Center of the Americas in Fort Lauderdale, where Chewy.com, an online pet food and supplies retailer recently leased 15k SF for its corporate offices. JLL repped the tenant, while Cushman & Wakefield of Florida’s John Criddle and Marc Horowitz of Cohen Brothers Realty, repped the landlord.

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