Michael Frankel
Analyst · Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Yes. Maybe I'll touch on the first part, and Laura, you can touch on bad debt. And actions, now that we're coming off the bottom. And what's really interesting in infill Southern California was that starting in June of last year, still early stages in the pandemic. Leasing activity really started to accelerate very dramatically after a very brief pause of, say, March, April, May.
And so we really started coming off -- if there was a bottom. Much earlier in the cycle in infill Southern California. And tantamount as Howard described, is really continue to accelerate beyond levels that we've ever seen in our 30-, 40-year careers here. And truly driven by a pretty broad range of industries, everything from food, consumer products and staples, health care and health care products, pharmaceuticals, as you'd expect, but also aerospace and space technology, mobility and electric vehicles and all these sectors, probably they represent ecosystems. So it's not just electric vehicles, but it's the suppliers of all the components, the batteries, et cetera. It's the service centers that supply in those sectors, for instance. And so it's been an extraordinarily broad-based set of demand drivers from an industry perspective.
And then you have e-commerce, of course, layered in, which we all know what's happened with e-commerce. But I think based on what we're seeing in the market, there's reason to believe that we're still in the early stages of the impact from e-commerce as it's going to impact our markets in a very positive way.
And just a couple of indicative examples. People talk a lot about Walmart, Amazon, and how they're penetrating these infill markets. But they're using the spaces differently. They bought Uber like company not too long ago, and they're using these vehicles and vans to distribute locally. It's much more efficient than trucks. And now you've seen Walmart do the same. And now there's an announcement last week that Target is doing the same. And they're establishing these sortation centers that are going to be in our warehouses, very local and close to the end points of distribution. And so you're really seeing the initial stages of a wave of impacts to the e-commerce-driven demand for our product. And it also is impacting the way they use it, the way that these properties are configured.
And frankly, it plays exceedingly well into what Rexford delivers to the market. So we're -- we couldn't be better positioned.