Inland Empire Warehouse Business Escrow

Warehousing is the largest employer in San Bernardino County, and logistics drives roughly 1 in 5 jobs. When fulfillment companies, 3PLs, and drayage firms change hands, escrow holds the deal together while contracts, equipment, and leases verify.

Drive the 10 through Ontario or Fontana and the scale hits you. Distribution centers stretching to the horizon, trucks queued at every interchange. San Bernardino County’s warehousing and storage sector employs about 78,500 people, the largest single employer in the county, and logistics accounts for roughly 20% of all wage and salary jobs. This is the biggest logistics market in the country, and it consolidates constantly.

The current market is a buyer’s opening. Vacancy climbed past 9% in 2026 while some big tenants gave back space and others signed million square foot leases. When markets churn, owners sell. Retiring founders, strategic buyers absorbing capacity, and private equity all circle the same pool of mid sized operators.

Five Things Every Warehouse Sale Escrow Verifies

At Secured Trust Escrow, we run business escrows for logistics companies across the Inland Empire, from single location 3PLs to multi location operators. The structure is the same discipline described in our guide to high value vendor contract escrow, scaled up to company sales.