“…Generally speaking, most of the factors in the location of warehousing activity are similar to any other industry: ''proximity to customers/clients, reasonable real estate costs, access to interstate highways, availability of appropriately skilled workers, and reasonable costs of doing business" (Glasmeier and Kibler, 1996, p. 740). Historically within the US, this meant close proximity to the CBD, to other warehouses and industrial facilities, and to the pre-interstate transportation routes of rivers and rail (Eaton, 1982). As cities expanded outward, warehousing facilities have been thought to respond to these same factors.…”