Mexico’s Largest Industrial Expansion Cycle in 25 Years

Thus, Mexico’s current industrial geography is, to a large extent, the result of this succession of cycles. The shift in growth toward the North helps explain why the region now accounts for nearly half of the country’s industrial inventory and why, throughout that process, Monterrey has established itself as Mexico’s leading expansion market, accounting for approximately 22% of all new industrial inventory developed since 2000.

Beyond cyclical behavior and geographic shifts, SiiLA data show that Mexico’s industrial market maintained a relatively stable growth rate over the past 25 years, averaging approximately 5.5% annually³. This suggests that the major cycles do not represent a permanent change in the market’s growth rate, but rather the effect of applying a similar growth percentage to an increasingly larger inventory base, resulting in progressively larger additions in absolute terms⁴.

In that context, the market’s most significant transformation was not how much it grew, but where that growth occurred. If the past 25 years reveal one consistent pattern, it is that Mexico’s major industrial expansion cycles do not change the pace of growth—they change the direction of development.

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¹ The analysis considers Class A and B industrial inventory monitored by SiiLA. Figures correspond to total inventory at year-end for each year and as of the first quarter of 2026.

² The periods referenced represent representative windows of the principal expansion cycles identified in the historical series. Their selection combines criteria based on national inventory growth rates, the temporal concentration of newly added industrial space, and shifts in regional leadership observed during each cycle.

³ The average annual growth rate (5.5%) corresponds to the arithmetic mean of year-over-year national industrial inventory growth rates observed between 2001 and the first quarter of 2026. This measure was used instead of the compound annual growth rate (CAGR), approximately 5.7%, because the objective of the analysis is to describe the market’s average year-over-year behavior rather than summarize the cumulative change between the beginning and end of the period. The arithmetic average better preserves the variability observed throughout the series and is therefore more consistent with the acceleration and cycle analyses presented in this study.

⁴ To assess whether industrial inventory growth exhibited structural acceleration, a simple linear regression was estimated using the annual growth rate (%) as the dependent variable and time (years) as the independent variable. The estimated slope was 0.0219 percentage points per year (p = 0.633), indicating no statistically significant evidence of sustained acceleration over the period analyzed. A second regression was also estimated using annual square meters added as the dependent variable. The positive slope was statistically significant (p = 1.4 × 10⁻⁵), indicating a statistically significant increase in the absolute volume of new industrial space added throughout the period analyzed.