Infrastructure, Logistics, and Investment: The First GRI Club 2026 Meetings
The GRI Club meetings held in Mexico, Colombia, and New York once again brought the key conversations shaping Latin American Real Estate to the forefront: infrastructure, logistics, financing, offices, and evolving investment criteria in increasingly selective and complex markets.
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The transformation of Real Estate in Latin America is no longer driven solely by economic growth or urban expansion. Today, factors such as infrastructure, technology, logistics, financing, and operational adaptability are shaping project feasibility and redefining investment strategies across the region.
In this context, GRI Club meetings continue to strengthen their role as strategic platforms for exchange among developers, operators, investment funds, financial institutions, and urban leaders.
Key Themes from the GRI 2026 Discussions
• Nearshoring and logistics: Mexico continues to consolidate its position as one of the main destinations for industrial demand linked to global supply chains.
• Strategic infrastructure: energy, mobility, and connectivity are emerging as critical variables for enabling new productive and urban hubs.
• More selective capital: investment decisions are increasingly prioritizing operational efficiency, resilience, and income quality over speculative growth.
• Applied technology: automation, digitalization, and management tools are gaining relevance across logistics, office environments, and asset operations.
• New urban demands: mixed-use developments, multifamily housing, urban logistics, and data centers continue reshaping the regional Real Estate landscape.
GRI Industrial & Logistics Mexico 2026
The GRI Club Industrial & Logistics meeting, held on March 24 in Mexico, brought together investors, developers, and operators connected to the growth of Latin America’s industrial and logistics sector. Carlos Sánchez, Head of Business Development for Mexico, explained: “The discussions were shaped by the sustained impact of e-commerce, the consolidation of nearshoring, and the growing pressure on infrastructure, location strategies, and operational efficiency.”
In Mexico specifically, the industrial repositioning driven by global production chains continues to generate demand across logistics corridors and emerging manufacturing and distribution hubs.
Among the main topics discussed were the shortage of prime locations and the need to develop alternative strategies to sustain competitiveness and scalability. The conversations also explored new technologies applied to logistics and warehousing, ranging from automated systems to operational management software focused on precision and efficiency.
The industrial and logistics sector continues to position itself as one of the most dynamic segments within Latin American Real Estate. However, rising demand is also exposing structural challenges related to infrastructure, sustainability, energy availability, and execution capacity in increasingly demanding markets.
GRI Commercial Real Estate Colombia 2026
GRI Commercial Real Estate Colombia 2026 brought together industry leaders in Bogotá to discuss the new conditions shaping the Colombian Real Estate market, within an economic environment still marked by high interest rates, inflation, and increased capital selectivity.
Despite the financial backdrop, the Colombian market is beginning to show signs of recovery. The office segment is leading part of this rebound, with historically low vacancy rates and rising rents in prime corridors. Industrial assets continue to post strong absorption levels driven by logistics, e-commerce, and data centers, while retail and multifamily remain resilient asset classes across the region.
One of the event’s central discussions focused on the relationship between strategic infrastructure and logistics-industrial development. Panels explored how the country’s productive geography is evolving, which hubs are capturing real demand, and what conditions are required to attract institutional investment into emerging logistics clusters.
Ricardo Fernández, Business Development Manager for the Americas, who attended on behalf of the firm, explained: “The discussions also addressed the current challenges facing office, retail, and mixed-use developments, particularly in terms of liquidity, financial structuring, and operational risk.”
Latin America GRI Real Estate 2026, New York
On May 12 and 13, a new edition of Latin America GRI Real Estate 2026 took place in New York, one of the leading meeting points between global capital and Latin American Real Estate leaders. Gómez Platero once again participated through Ricardo Fernández, Business Development Manager for the Americas.
The event brought together more than 380 leaders from across Latin America through an agenda focused on strengthening strategic relationships, facilitating high-level private meetings, and generating new business opportunities. In addition to networking activities and closed-door discussions, the program included technical visits to landmark and innovative projects across New York City, along with matchmaking sessions focused on investment and regional development.
Across more than 20 discussions, conversations covered topics related to housing, multifamily, logistics, retail, offices, mixed-use developments, ESG, technology, financing, and investment, within a context shaped by economic, political, and social shifts that continue redefining the market.
Ricardo Fernández, Business Development Manager for the Americas, attended the event representing the firm. Among the key conclusions discussed were the growth of local pension funds as a new market driver, the shift toward more direct and transparent investment structures, and the consolidation of sectors such as hyper-automated logistics, multifamily, hospitality, and data centers as priority targets for institutional capital in Latin America. The discussions also highlighted how sustainability, nearshoring, digitalization, and local operational expertise are increasingly reshaping investment decisions across the region.
