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10/16/2025
and welcome to the first Industrial Realty Trust Inc. third quarter 2025 results call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star and then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Art Harmon, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Marketing. Please go ahead.
Thank you, Dave. Hello, everybody, and welcome to our call. Before we discuss our third quarter 2025 results and our updated guidance for the year, please note that our call may include forward-looking statements as defined by federal securities laws. These statements are based on management's expectations, plans, and estimates of our prospects. Today's statements may be time-sensitive and accurate only as of today's date, October 16, 2025. We assume no obligation to update our statements or the other information we provide. Actual results may differ materially from our forward-looking statements, and factors which could cause this are described in our 10-K and other SEC filings. You can find a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures discussed in today's call on our supplemental report and our earnings release. The supplemental, our earnings release, and our SEC filings are available at firstindustrial.com under the Investors tab. Our call will begin with remarks by Peter Basile, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Scott Musil, our Chief Financial Officer, after which we'll open it up for your questions. Also with us today are Jojo Yap, Chief Investment Officer, Peter Schultz, Executive Vice President, Chris Schneider, Executive Vice President of Operations, and Bob Walter, Executive Vice President of Capital Markets and Asset Management. Now let me hand the call over to Peter.
Thank you, Art, and thank you all for joining us today. Our team delivered another solid quarter, highlighted by several development lease signings in the third quarter and fourth quarter to date, including a key win in the Inland Empire that contributed to our FFO guidance increase. Scott will provide additional details during his remarks. We also captured strong cash rental rate growth from leasing activity. The renewal side of our business is exceptionally healthy, and we have now largely taken care of all our rollovers for 2025. Moreover, our pace for 2026 is consistent with prior years and we're producing good early results. Moving on to the leasing market. Touring activity related to new leasing picked up in the third quarter. Notwithstanding our development leasing successes, tenant decision-making on the whole remains deliberate as the uncertainty around tariffs continues to weigh on some prospects. The fundamental picture is improving. Based on CoStar data, vacancy in Tier 1 U.S. markets was 6.3% at the end of the third quarter, which was flat compared to 2Q. We view this as a potential sign that fundamentals nationally are stabilizing. In our 15 target markets, net absorption in the third quarter was 11 million square feet, bringing the total for the first three quarters of the year to 22 million. With demand showing signs of strengthening, total leasing nationally is expected to approach near record levels this year. CBRE is projecting 900 million square feet of total leasing in 2025, which would be the second largest year on record, second only to 2021. New starts within our 15 target markets remained measured at 41 million square feet, with completions of 37 million. Space under construction now totals 212 million square feet, and that pipeline is 47% pre-leased. Moving now to our portfolio. Results were in line with our expectations with in-service occupancy of 94% at quarter end. Regarding our 2025 rollovers, we've now taken care of 95% by square footage, and our overall cash rental rate increase for new and renewal leasing is 32%. If you exclude the large fixed-rate renewal in central Pennsylvania we previously discussed, the cash rental rate increase is 37%, and the straight-line increase is 59%. As I mentioned, we're making good headway on our 2026 rollovers. Through yesterday, we've taken care of approximately 31% of our rollovers and a cash rental rate change of 31%. We'll provide our full year 2026 cash rental rate increase guidance on our fourth quarter earnings call, but we're off to a good start. Moving now to development leasing. As announced on our last call, we leased the remaining 501,000 square feet of the 968,000 square foot building in our Camelback 303 joint venture. The three building 1.8 million square foot project comprised of this building and the two we acquired from the venture earlier this year is now 100% leased. We also leased 56,000 square feet at our first Park Miami building three. In the Inland Empire, We leased our industrial outdoor storage asset in Fontana. And in the fourth quarter to date, we leased 100% of our 159,000 square foot First Harley Knox Logistics Center. We also signed another lease at First Park Miami for 57,000 square feet at Building 12. In sum, we're excited about the future cash flow growth opportunities ahead. And with that, I'll hand it over to Scott.
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