The Big Industrials Industrials are the places where real work gets done. Work is what Rosie the Riveter and people in blue collars did, standing at a machine all day, riveting, hammering, grinding, and sweating. If you wear a suit and don't get dirty, what you do is not work. The big industrials are a product of the day when we discovered the efficiencies of mass production.
Robots do more and more of the work.
Yet we continue to build big industrials. We change, but the demand for big boxes to house industry remains. Industrials went suburban, and they went single-story. The big industrials have largely been built for a single occupant, a corporation. Often, when the occupant departs, the building requires adaptation.