Retail’s Death Is a Myth

Retail’s Death Is a Myth

A recent trip to ICSC’s RECon show in Las Vegas to meet with clients and get an overall feel for the country’s retail real estate climate assured me that retail is not dead. Even though mass store closures, like the recently announced Dress Barn demise often takes...
RECon Amid a Changing Retail Sector

RECon Amid a Changing Retail Sector

The retail real estate industry is adapting to change, and that is apparently not such a bad thing, though there is still hesitancy about the sector due to store closings and some malls shutting down and becoming repurposed into other uses. National Real Estate...

ICSC RECon From the Floor: Net Lease Is Still Dominant

  GRS | Title director, Allen Brown reports in from ICSC RECon: “At the International Council of Shopping Centers’ major RECon 2016 show, the buzz in the net-lease retail sector is about expansion and growth. Three restaurant franchisors/franchisees that I...

Lots To See at ICSC RECon This Year

Lots of networking, interesting booths and major deals take place at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ RECon show every year in Las Vegas. It’s right around the corner now, from May 22nd to the 25th. With so much going on, not to mention evening...

RECon Focus: Retail Real Estate Climate Upbeat

Retail real estate may not have had the bounce back from the recession enjoyed by multifamily, but ICSC’s RECon, the largest show of the year dealing with this commercial real estate sector, is proving that it’s starting to improve. Retailers are once again expanding...