Tri-county core
Fort Lauderdale
industrial.
Home. The tightest industrial submarket in the tightest industrial county in Florida, and the one Phil walks himself.
Core market / Phil works this one in person
Industrial Storage Brokers is based here, and Fort Lauderdale is the market Phil knows street by street. Central Broward runs the lowest vacancy in the county and it has done for years, because the industrial land was zoned decades ago, the city is built out, and what remains keeps being converted to something that pays more per foot.
The other thing that makes this market its own animal is the water. Fort Lauderdale is the centre of the American yachting industry, and the marine trades along the New River and around Port Everglades need industrial space that no other Florida city needs in the same way: high bays, travel lift access, yard for hulls and trailers, and zoning that permits all of it.
Where the industrial actually is in Fort Lauderdale
- Executive Airport and Cypress CreekThe core industrial belt. Flex, distribution and the lowest vacancy in the county.
- Andrews Avenue corridorOlder warehouse and service product running north out of the city.
- The New River and Marina MileMarine industrial, boatyards and refit. A market with its own rules and its own buyers.
- Port Everglades approachFreight forwarding, logistics and yard against the port and the airport.
- Oakland Park and Wilton ManorsDense small bay serving the city trades, with effectively no new supply.
- Sunrise Boulevard and the westService industrial and flex heading out toward Plantation and Sunrise.
The infrastructure
What sets value here
Industrial value is access. Everything a buyer pays for in Fort Lauderdale is downstream of these six things.
- I-95The spine, with Cypress Creek, Commercial and Broward Boulevard feeding the industrial belt.
- Port EvergladesA deepwater seaport, the fuel terminal for South Florida, and an intermodal facility on site.
- FLLFort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, and the freight and service market around it.
- Florida’s TurnpikeThe inland route, and the way west and north out of the metro.
- The New RiverNavigable water into the middle of the city, which is why the marine trades are here.
- FEC RailwayThe main line, with the intermodal container transfer facility at the port.
What we sell in Fort Lauderdale
Six asset classes, and nothing else
- Small bay and flex. The tightest product in the county. Roughly 1,200 to 15,000 SF, and almost nothing new at that size.
- Industrial outdoor storage. Yard from about an acre. What is permitted is set by the city, not the county, and it varies street to street.
- Warehouse. Dock-high and grade-level, from owner-user boxes to institutional product near the port.
- RV and boat storage. Boat and yacht storage against one of the largest recreational marine populations on earth.
- Truck parking and terminals. Constrained by city ordinance more than by land.
- Industrial land. Rare, and usually a redevelopment story rather than a raw site.
Straight answers
Questions owners actually ask
That is set by the City of Fort Lauderdale, not by Broward County, because Broward has no countywide zoning code. The city publishes its own industrial districts and its own conditions on screening, paving and what may be stored. Permitted use is a legal question set by ordinance and by any overlay on your parcel, so we read the governing code for your address rather than answer from the district name.
A specific and well-funded pool. Marine industrial on or near navigable water in Fort Lauderdale is genuinely scarce, and it is priced on water access, draft, travel lift capacity, usable upland and permitted use rather than on building square footage. Yacht service groups, marina operators and industrial investors all bid on it, and they value it differently.
Because nobody builds it. Leasing of spaces under 50,000 SF in Broward hit a record of roughly 2.8 million SF in 2025, up about 30 per cent, while the construction pipeline stayed pointed at larger logistics product. That gap is structural, not cyclical. See the small bay report.
Before you list in Fort Lauderdale
Read these before you sign a listing agreement.
How to sell a warehouse in Fort Lauderdale
The seven steps in the order they happen, what sets the price, and the three mistakes that cost owners the most.
What is my industrial property worth?
Why no website can price a warehouse or a truck yard, and what a real broker opinion of value contains.
How to choose an industrial broker
Nine questions to ask before you sign, and what a weak answer sounds like.
Next step
Find out what your property is worth.
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