{"id":8681,"date":"2025-09-16T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ios.alterraproperty.com\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:28:46","slug":"how-wall-streets-big-bets-on-a-i-are-driving-interest-in-huge-parking-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ios.alterraproperty.com\/?p=8681","title":{"rendered":"How Wall Street\u2019s Big Bets on A.I. 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Are Driving Interest in Huge Parking Lots<\/h1><div class=\"byline\">SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 &nbsp;|&nbsp; Source: <b>THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/b><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload hero\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%272048%27%20height%3D%271536%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%202048%201536%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%272048%27%20height%3D%271536%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/ios.alterraproperty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/alterra-ios-nyt-parking-lots_result.webp\" alt=\"Data-center construction site requiring industrial outdoor storage nearby\"><figcaption>A data-center construction site. Photo: The New York Times.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p class=\"lead\">Wall Street&rsquo;s biggest firms are pouring into industrial outdoor storage &mdash; the unglamorous lots that have become essential to logistics, trade and the data-center boom.<\/p><div class=\"stats\"><div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">$189M<\/div><div class=\"l\">Blackstone&ndash;Alterra fund<\/div><\/div><div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">49<\/div><div class=\"l\">IOS sites<\/div><\/div><div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">123%<\/div><div class=\"l\">IOS rent growth since 2020<\/div><\/div><\/div><p>IOS lots &mdash; a few acres of gravel or asphalt near highways and ports &mdash; were long the province of small investors. Now the building boom for AI data centers, which need nearby space to stage millions of dollars of generators, tractors and trailers, has turned them into prime targets for institutional capital.<\/p><blockquote>All of that generates direct and indirect demand for IOS.<cite>Leo Addimando, Managing Partner, Alterra (via The New York Times)<\/cite><\/blockquote><p>Blackstone committed $189 million to a fund with Alterra to buy 49 IOS sites across 22 states, while J.P. Morgan and others have launched their own ventures. Since 2020, IOS rents have jumped 123 percent &mdash; a return profile that helps explain why pension funds, banks and asset managers are moving in.<\/p><p><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/ios.alterraproperty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/How-Wall-Streets-Big-Bets-on-A.I.-Are-Driving-Interest-in-Huge-Parking-Lots-The-New-York-Times.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the Full Article (PDF) &rarr;<\/a><\/p><p class=\"src\">Source: The New York Times, &ldquo;How Wall Street&rsquo;s Big Bets on A.I. Are Driving Interest in Huge Parking Lots,&rdquo; by Patrick Sisson, September 16, 2025.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street\u2019s biggest firms are pouring into industrial outdoor storage \u2014 the unglamorous lots that have become essential to logistics, trade and the data-center boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ios-new"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Wall Street\u2019s Big Bets on A.I. 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