Onshoring Is Fueling Industrial CRE Optimism. Will The Manufacturing Revival Stick?

Barchart·12/15/2025 04:24:16

A Brazilian manufacturer is spearheading a new plant in a sleepy rural town 200 miles south of Atlanta. Grupo Vialume will invest $4.4M over the next year retrofitting an existing facility in Colquitt to manufacture traffic markers and reflective lenses, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday. Vialume CEO João Paulo Moura has said the firm was lured to Georgia by tax incentives and a stable U.S. dollar, but in the background, President Donald Trump’s tariff policies may also have motivated Vialume to shift production to the U.S. Vialume is just one example of a wave of 2025 announcements of global manufacturing returning or...