The Storeless Pop-Up Store
We tend to take for granted that the leasing of space is the one constant in our business, our one set of assumptions that are safe from change. Change seems to encroach but not actually threaten —...
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Pop-Up Retail: A Rising Retail Trend
The pop-up store — the short-term or temporary appearance of retail operations, inside or outside of traditional retail space — is a bona fide disruptive trend in retail space markets. With so many...
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Mall Is Well: Retailer Optimism Up In February
Forgive the corny headline, but there’s more than a couple of indicators that the long-sagging national retail sector is gaining even more strength this quarter. Let’s take a peek at a few: RBC...
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Best Buy Rethinks Square Footage
Big box giant Best Buy’s announcement of a $1.7 billion loss in its most recent quarter came with a planned wave of store closures. 50 stores are set to shutter and 400 jobs will be lost. As grim as...
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Retail Space: Less About Products, More About Brand Experience
We’ve written on the various impacts the e-commerce wave has had on the retail space industry. Usually, the trends point to a general future decline in demand for brick-and-mortar as the growth in...
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NAR Commercial Real Estate Forecast: Major Improvements Across The Board
The May 2012 NAR Commercial Real Estate Forecast published today brings a bumper crop of good news about the economy and fundamentals in commercial real estate in all its sectors. Significant job...
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Hanging Out The Shingle: Three Commercial Real Estate Startups
TheSquareFoot.com Market upturns such as we’re experiencing bring a greater number of entrepreneurial projects – it’s the free enterprise system’s most reliable behavior and probably its greatest...
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Multichannel Retail Is Remaking Distribution Networks
Last month’s holiday season brought the seasonal retail push. Coast to coast, goods moved at peak volumes, as they do more or less every year. But the radical change brought to retail by online...
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Apple Store Design Patent: Space Layout As Intellectual Property
If you rank retailers in terms of revenue generated per square foot, Cupertino, California-based Apple Computer, Inc.’s nearly 400 Apple Stores sit at the top of the list with over $6,000 per square...
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Retail And Office Mood-Makers Muzak To Get New Name
Technology’s power to reshape commercial property operations has been at work for decades. We observe the waves of change in e-commerce as if nothing similar had ever happened before, but the fact is...
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Automated Kiosks: The Retail Floor Space Game-Changer
Localism alert: While shopping at the downtown Chicago Macy’s the other week, I noticed a small line of customers queued up in a corner of the store. The line led not to a counter and a salesperson...
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Retailers Win Internet Battle: Senate Passes Internet Sales Tax Bill
The brick and mortar retail business just saw a major development in its pricing disadvantage vs. internet retailers. A change may be underway in the tax charged to its online competition, if the big...
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Wal-Mart vs. Hospitals? The Retailization Of Healthcare Continues
The delivery of primary healthcare services on chain retailer floorspace – sometimes referred to the retailiziation of healthcare – is underway. Signs include: Walgreens pharmacists administered shots...
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When Retail Becomes (Secretly) Residential
Okay, this doesn’t exactly qualify as news, as it’s a six-year old story. But I submit it nonetheless to retail property managers experiencing unusual and unexplained traffic and power consumption...
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Beneficiaries Of Showrooming: Showrooming Panic Is Overblown
As a business trend and a disruptive force in retailing, e-commerce seems to move in only one direction: toward displacing brick and mortar retail business. The line on e-commerce is that it upends...
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The Showrooming Solution? Motorola’s Connected Shopper
In the retail sector, what’s the solution to disruptive change brought on by technology? Often enough, more technology. While it doesn’t mention it by name, a recent article in...
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Borders Ann Arbor HQ Books $10.5 Million Refinance
New York-based real estate investment banking firm Chesterfield Faring has announced a refinance of the Wickfield Center of Ann Arbor, MI, former corporate headquarters of the bankrupt and liquidated...
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Support the Marketplace Fairness Act
Dan Wagner Our guest blogger today is Dan Wagner, Vice President Government Relations with The Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc. located in Oak Brook, IL. (And NAR Commercial Sponsor)...
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Commercial Real Estate Industry Weekly Roundup
Roundin’ Up The News Patrolling the media for the latest in commercial real estate news, it’s the Commercial Real Estate Industry Weekly Roundup: General Sturdy Outlook for Seattle Real Estate - The...
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Developer’s Long Shopping List In Chicago Supermarket Shakeup
In the wake of grocery giant Safeway’s recent exit from the Chicago area market, Oakbrook, IL-based Inland Real Estate Group of Companies has gone to the market to pick up a few things. Weighing The...
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