New Member Q&A: Core Industrial Realty

As part of its mission to celebrate organizations that strengthen the foodservice equipment and supplies industry, FEDA publishes Q&As with member companies. This week's newsletter features Core Industrial Realty, an industrial real estate brokerage firm that serves the foodservice equipment and supplies industry.

Please tell us a little bit about your company's history.
Noel S. Liston, managing broker, and Martin Geary, broker: Core Industrial Realty was founded by Noel S. Liston, a top-producing industrial broker for over 30 years, with a mission to build a better industrial real estate brokerage firm. Since its inception, Core Industrial Realty has been selected by several of the nation’s largest property owners to be their exclusive marketing agent on select projects throughout the Midwest.

What kinds of services does your company provide to businesses within the foodservice equipment and supplies industry?
Core Industrial Realty provides a wide array of brokerage services that cater to foodservice equipment and supplies companies, including tenant and landlord representation, acquisition and disposition representation, sale-leaseback advisory, build-to-suit transaction support, and investment sales. Core Industrial Realty’s focus is on processing centers for food and food-related facilities, e-commerce and distribution-driven industries.

What distinguishes your company in your market?
Our team of experts has extensive experience in the industrial real estate market, and we pride ourselves on offering our clients detailed qualitative and quantitative analyses tailored to each project. Our responsiveness and detail-driven analysis are second to none in the real estate brokerage industry.

How has the company innovated in recent years?
We have created, grown and maintained our own proprietary database with the most relevant data for value creation that is customized for each real estate project we take on.

How is your company making the best use of new technology?
Our people. We integrate our new technology investments into every corner of our organization.

How is your company growing?
Initially, through reputation-driven referrals. Now we are growing with expanded personnel and continued investment in technology.

What challenges are your customers facing, and what are some examples of how your company has helped them create solutions?
Real estate decisions impact much more than where a product is made or distributed. We recently assisted one of Europe’s largest producers of antipasto with the selection and purchase of their first U.S processing facility. The project required a critical labor study, an analysis of water capacity and a cost impact study.

What interested you about becoming a FEDA member? What are you learning about the foodservice equipment and supplies industry?
Our brokers have an extensive history of completing food and food-related transactions throughout the Midwest. We have brokers who came from the food industry and wanted to formalize the company's expertise in this area by joining an organization that we could contribute to and grow with.

Is there anything else FEDA members should know about your company?
We are always available for consultation. Whether you are across the country or across the world, we work around our clients’ schedules and availability. We have the answers for food-related real estate and share on a confidential basis with our select clients, vendors and partners.