Warehouses for Lease in Clarington, ON
Represented by Michael Law — industrial broker, Lennard Commercial Realty
Region
East GTA
Avg Net Rent
$14.75/SF(Q1 2026)
Availability
5.8%
Clear Heights
24'–40'
Highway Access
Highway 401, Highway 115, Highway 35
Clarington Warehouse Market
Clarington occupies the easternmost position in the GTA industrial corridor, anchoring the outer edge of Durham Region's industrial market where Highway 401 meets Highway 115 and Highway 35 running north. The municipality encompasses Bowmanville, Newcastle, Courtice, and Orono — each with distinct industrial nodes serving different tenant profiles. Bowmanville Industrial Park is the most established node, housing a mix of light manufacturing, wholesale trade, and logistics tenants in buildings ranging from 10,000 to 60,000 SF. Clarington offers the lowest industrial net rents of any 401-connected GTA submarket, making it the destination of last resort for cost-sensitive tenants who can accept maximum distance from the Toronto core in exchange for minimum occupancy cost. Net asking rents range from $12.50 to $16.50 per square foot net. The submarket's labour pool draws from a growing residential base — Clarington's population exceeded 130,000 in 2024 and is among the fastest-growing municipalities in Durham Region. Highway 115 running north toward Lindsay and the Kawartha Lakes provides access to secondary markets north of the GTA. For tenants with distribution networks serving eastern Ontario rather than the Toronto core, Clarington offers a strategic position at the junction of the 401 east-west corridor and the 115 north-south corridor. Michael Law advises industrial tenants and investors across the GTA East and Durham Region corridor including Clarington, Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, and Pickering.
Sourcing Warehouses for Lease — My Approach
When I source warehouse space for a tenant, the rent number is the last thing I look at — not the first. The questions that actually drive a successful warehouse lease are: what is the building's true power capacity (often the bottleneck for racking, automation, or refrigeration), what is the trailer storage and yard depth (critical for any 3PL or distribution use), what is the clear height under the joists versus the deck (a common 2-3 foot misrepresentation in listing materials), and what does the dock-to-door ratio actually look like at peak operating volume. I walk every short-listed building with the tenant's operations lead, not just the real estate lead, because the person who actually runs the floor catches things the marketing brochure hides — slope of the slab, location of the column grid relative to racking layout, sprinkler density for the proposed commodity classification. A great warehouse lease starts with the operational fit, not the per-square-foot rent. Rent is the negotiation that comes after we've found the right building.
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