April 22, 2016
By Bob Carson, EVP, Levin Management Green Products Help Both Business and the Environment This month, more than a billion people in 192 countries are expected to take action to protect the environment in observation of Earth Day (April 22). Sustainability is always top-of-mind in the retail real estate industry, with property owners, managers and […]
READ STORYFebruary 24, 2016
Consumers Love Online but Still Prefer Shopping at Bricks and Mortar You know there’s a big retail real estate trend brewing when Amazon, the premier pure play online retailer, announces a plan to open 300-plus book stores. Yes, that’s stores, as in bricks-and-mortar establishments. Market tests of on-campus locations and pop-ups in major cities preceded […]
READ STORYFebruary 2, 2016
Lower Gas Prices, Job Growth, and the Housing Market Will Bolster Sales this Year Store managers in our 95-property, 13 million-square-foot portfolio told us they feel good about the year ahead during our annual January Retail Sentiment Survey. This is particularly good news considering that the poll was conducted at the outset of the current […]
READ STORYJanuary 7, 2016
The great disruptor – maybe the greatest in our time – is now more than just an emerging trend. The sci-fi sounding Internet of Things (aka the IoT) is now a reality that is already transforming almost every aspect of daily life – from home security to healthcare. It promises to usher in a “golden […]
READ STORYDecember 17, 2015
Retailers May Be Neglecting Their Strongest Competitive Advantage Digital technology has transformed our industry – some might say disrupted it – along with just about everything else in contemporary life. Retailers, over the last few years, have risen to the challenge of their online competitors with major investments in omnichannel. But have all those dollars […]
READ STORYNovember 20, 2015
Strong Sales, Positive Expectations, and High-Tech Marketing Plans Point to a Happy Ending for 2015 Retailers in our 95-property, 13 million-square-foot leasing and management portfolio are heading into the holiday shopping season confident and optimistic. They responded to our annual Pre-Holiday Retail Sentiment Survey with strongly positive views of the critical weeks ahead. This looks like […]
READ STORYOctober 26, 2015
NRF Projects Rise of 3.7 Percent over 2014; All Eyes on Black Friday According to a recent NPD Group survey of 3,600 adults, U.S. shoppers are looking forward to the winter holidays this year. Eager to catch a break from “what’s going in the world” and wanting “to give to the less fortunate” are the […]
READ STORYSeptember 28, 2015
Hip Gen-Y’s Shopping Habits Reveal Price Sensitivity Retailers and retail real estate companies are paying close attention to Millennial shoppers as they progress. After all, 80 million consumers (one-quarter of the U.S. population) with annual spending power of $600 billion are not to be ignored. Although over half of Millennial households currently live on under […]
READ STORYSeptember 22, 2015
Market Demographics and Traffic Drivers Are Main ConsiderationsA Conversation with Jake Frantzman, Senior Leasing Representative What’s the secret to creating the “right” tenant mix? There’s no secret to it at all. It’s about analysis and understanding of two key factors: the demographics of the local market and the traffic drivers that deliver shoppers to the […]
READ STORYAugust 11, 2015
Surveys Project Higher Spending and More Online Activity, Bricks & Mortar Stores Are Still the Favorite Destination. Watch for Retail Trends Ahead. It seems today’s back-to-school shopping season begins minutes after the kids are set free for the summer. What was once a harried weekend of gathering supplies and buying new jeans and sneakers now […]
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