Comstock's magazine 1117 - November 2017 | Page 81

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SPACE
SQUEEZE
Folsom and El Dorado Hills are prime for new
industrial developments
BY STEVEN YODER
Bob Kuhl has been around the Sacra-
mento commercial real estate market
for 42 years. For 37 of those, he ran his
own commercial real estate company and
today he’s senior vice president at Cemo
Commercial based in Folsom. But even for
a village elder, there’s a first time for every-
thing. “I’ve never in my life told a client that
I don’t have anything [to lease],” he says.
“And not only don’t I have anything, but
nobody else I know has anything.”
Absent new building, that’s the fu-
ture of industrial property in Folsom and
El Dorado Hills. And it’s a case study of
what’s happening across the region.
Two recent reports show the cur-
rent state of leasable industrial space.
Across the Sacramento area, industrial
rents are at a five-year high and will hit
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