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Industrial Bridge financing
Bridge Financing for Industrial, Warehouse, and Logistics Properties
Quick answer: Industrial bridge loans provide short-term capital for warehouse, distribution, flex, manufacturing, and last-mile logistics property acquisitions and repositioning. These 12 to 36-month facilities close faster than conventional bank financing and offer leverage up to 75% of cost, making them ideal for time-sensitive industrial acquisitions and value-add plays in high-demand logistics corridors. Minimum loan size is $2 million.
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When it fits
When Industrial Bridge financing fits.
Industrial real estate has outperformed every other commercial property type over the past decade, driven by e-commerce distribution demand, nearshoring manufacturing, and last-mile logistics constraints in infill markets. This performance has made industrial the most competitive bridge lending category outside of multifamily, with debt funds and bridge platforms actively seeking well-located industrial assets. Typical bridge scenarios include acquiring a vacant or partially vacant industrial building, improving the asset, and stabilizing with credit tenants before refinancing into a CMBS, life company, or permanent bank loan. Sale-leaseback structures and owner-user acquisitions in SBA-ineligible situations also drive demand for industrial bridge capital.
Structure before pricing: leverage, recourse, reserves, prepayment, and closing certainty can matter as much as the headline coupon. We test those trade-offs before recommending a path.
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Vacant or partially vacant warehouse and distribution acquisitions
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Last-mile logistics facilities in infill markets with rent growth potential
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Flex and light industrial repositioning into higher-value uses
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Manufacturing and cold storage acquisitions requiring lease-up
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Industrial portfolio acquisitions needing a blanket bridge before permanent financing
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Nearshoring and reshoring manufacturing facilities requiring fast-close capital
Lender selection
How We Source Industrial Bridge Capital
We do not treat the lender list as a directory. We target the desks whose current appetite fits the asset, sponsorship, market, and business plan, then compare the full execution, not only the rate.
| Capital source | Where it may fit |
|---|---|
| Debt Funds | Flexible capital for transitional, complex, leveraged, or time-sensitive executions where conventional credit boxes may not fit. |
| Bridge Lending Platforms | Flexible short-term capital for acquisition, lease-up, renovation, repositioning, or other transitional business plans before stabilization or sale. |
| Commercial Banks | Relationship-oriented capital that can offer local market knowledge and structural flexibility, with recourse often considered. |
| Life Insurance Companies | Long-duration fixed-rate capital for high-quality assets and experienced sponsors, generally with conservative leverage. |
| CMBS Conduits | Non-recourse execution with broad property appetite, balanced against more standardized servicing and prepayment provisions. |
How we work
One process. Multiple capital sources.
We position the transaction, identify the lenders most likely to compete, and compare proposals on economics and execution risk, not just headline rate.
A well-structured financing process should create real choices for the borrower, not simply deliver the first term sheet.
Target the right lender desks
The transaction is matched to lenders whose current appetite fits the property, market, and structure.
Create a comparable field
Proposals are evaluated across rate, proceeds, recourse, reserves, prepayment, and closing certainty.
Manage execution through closing
We coordinate lender diligence, third-party reports, and issue resolution until the loan funds.
National reach
Market knowledge where the deal requires it.
We arrange industrial bridge financing nationwide while matching each transaction to capital sources active in that market and property type.
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Questions
Industrial Bridge financing, clarified.
The final structure depends on the asset, sponsorship, and market. These are the starting parameters we discuss most often.
Working out equity? Our commercial property down payment guide covers typical requirements by loan type: 20% to 30% conventional, 10% for SBA owner occupied.
Short-term financing for warehouse, distribution, flex, manufacturing, and last-mile logistics properties that are vacant, partially leased, or being repositioned. Terms run 12 to 36 months, interest-only, with non-recourse available. The loan funds the acquisition and improvements, and is repaid when the asset is leased and refinanced into permanent debt or sold.
Rates generally run 7.25% to 11.50%, interest-only, with leverage up to 75% of cost and loan sizes from $2 million to $75 million and above. Capital comes from debt funds, bridge platforms, banks, life companies, and CMBS conduits. Commercial Lending Solutions arranges these loans and matches each deal to the lenders active in that submarket.
Industrial bridge leverage tops out around 75% of cost versus 80% for apartments because industrial cash flow is tenant-concentrated. A single vacancy in a 200,000 square foot box takes income to zero, while an apartment property loses one unit of many. Lenders size to that binary risk and to re-tenanting time in the submarket.
Fourteen to thirty days is typical. Environmental diligence is the usual constraint: former manufacturing, auto, dry cleaning, or fuel storage uses often trigger a Phase II, which adds two to four weeks and can change loan sizing. Ordering the Phase I the day the contract is signed protects the timeline.
Yes. Vacant and partially vacant industrial is a core use case, though lenders will hold back proceeds in an interest reserve and a leasing reserve funded at closing. Sizing keys off stabilized value and market rent comparables rather than in-place income, so the leasing assumptions in your model get tested hard.
Let's evaluate the right industrial bridge structure.
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