If you’re in the business of leasing a shopping center or helping a retail chain find space for their next location, there are a few things you need to know:

Topics: Recruiting Shopping Center Tenants, Void Analysis, Landlord Rep Brokers & Owners Industry, Tenant Rep Brokers & Developers Industry, Retail Match

It’s an interesting time to be alive, that’s for certain!

Topics: Improving Store Locations, Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Coronavirus

If you’re at all connected to the grocery business, you’ve probably seen the headlines about natural and organic grocery chains closing their stores:

Topics: Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Restaurant Site Selection

There are times that it makes good sense for a chain business to expand, and there are times it makes sense for that chain business to expand in a different way than they have in the past (to better reach customers).

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Smart Retail Growth, Retail Industry, Customer Analysis

It’s that time of year when those of us in the business of retail real estate research are looking backward at the year prior. What retail categories grew? Which ones shrank? SiteSeer’s data partner, ChainXY, provides insights into over 4,500 chains in the United States and Canada. We dug into their three broad areas (retail, restaurant and services) to collect a snapshot of how chains that existed on January 1, 2019, grew or shrunk over the year.

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Data Study, Data Partner, Retail Industry

Step #3 in our Site Selection Checklist for making smart site selection decisions is study your competition.

Too often, we see companies do lots of homework on their customers and trade area and launch right into an expansion plan. Understanding your customer is indeed vital to your success as you grow. But there’s another side of the equation that is extremely important: understanding who you’re going up against.

Topics: Market Research, Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection, Site Selection Software, Restaurant Industry, Restaurant Site Selection, Competitive Analysis

There are two scary words that nobody in the retail industry likes to hear: retail apocalypse.

Topics: Smart Retail Growth, Retail Apocalypse, Data Study, Bricks and Mortar Retail, Retail Industry, Retail Site Selection

When you use a tool like SiteSeer, there are all kinds of different data types that can power the platform:

Topics: Data Partner, Site Selection Software, Analyzing Retail Sites, Data Quality

Attention retailers/restaurateurs/operators and executives of other chain businesses: have you ever received an email like this before:

Topics: Retail Data Analysis, Market Data, Retail Industry, Restaurant Industry, Data Quality

When you’re in the business of leasing space or developing shopping centers, there’s one issue that probably matters to you more than just about any other: how can you find the best tenants to fill your space?

Topics: Void Analysis, Retail Industry, Landlord Rep Brokers & Owners Industry, Tenant Rep Brokers & Developers Industry, Analyzing Retail Sites, Retail Match