Company: FR
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000921825-25-000019
Chunk: 35

Company: FIRST INDUSTRIAL REALTY TRUST INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 35
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 objective is to maximize the total return to the Company's stockholders and the Operating Partnership's partners by increasing our cash flow and property values. Our long-term business growth plans include the following elements:

•Internal Growth. We seek to grow internally by: (i) increasing revenues by renewing or re-leasing spaces subject to expiring leases at higher rental levels; (ii) obtaining contractual rent escalations on our long-term leases; (iii) increasing occupancy levels at properties where vacancies exist and maintaining occupancy elsewhere; (iv) controlling and minimizing property operating expenses, general and administrative expenses and releasing costs; and (v) renovating existing properties.

•External Growth. We seek to grow externally through: (i) the development of best-in-class industrial properties and the acquisition of individual and portfolios of industrial properties, which meet our investment parameters within our 15 key logistics markets, with a primary emphasis on coastal markets; and (ii) the expansion of our existing properties.

•Portfolio Enhancement. We continually seek to upgrade our overall portfolio by making new investments and selling assets that lack strong long-term cash flow growth potential. Our focus is on 15 key logistics markets, with a primary emphasis on coastal markets, which exhibit desirable long-term growth characteristics and where developable land is relatively scarce. 

Our ability to pursue our long-term growth plans is affected by market conditions and our financial condition and operating capabilities. See "Summary of Significant Transactions in 2024" under Item 7, "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations."

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Business Strategies

We utilize the following strategies in connection with the operation of our business:

•Organizational Strategy. We implement a decentralized property operations strategy through the deployment of experienced regional management teams and local property managers. We provide acquisition, development and financing assistance, asset management oversight and financial reporting functions from our headquarters in Chicago, Illinois to support our regional operations. We believe the size of our portfolio enables us to realize operating efficiencies by spreading overhead among many properties and by negotiating purchasing discounts.

•Market Strategy. Our market strategy is to concentrate on 15 key logistics markets in the United States, with a primary emphasis on coastal markets. These markets have one or more of the following characteristics: (i) favorable industrial real estate fundamentals, including improving industrial demand and constrained future supply that can lead to long-term rent growth; (ii) favorable and diversified economic and business environments that should benefit from increases in distribution activity driven