In our industry, all too often people see functions such as Leasing and Marketing as separate enough to be placed in silos, always and forever. When you think about it,…
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Bordering somewhere between creepy and cool, Bonobos has recently updated their app to give you outfit suggestions based on a mix of your local weather, clothes you’ve purchased from the brand…
Special thanks to Ari Kurtz, Google’s Head of Industry, Retail and Pano Anthos, Founder and Managing Director of XRC Labs, a retail start-up incubator, for joining me for the Open…
Consider two experiential initiatives launched in recent weeks. In the first, American Eagle installed a bank of free washers and dryers in its New York flagship. The hope was that…
Companies tend to overestimate their ability to anticipate and respond to the changing marketplace. They think they’re in a delicate dance with consumer expectations and demand when, in fact, theyâre out…
âMy advice to anyone starting a business is to remember that someday I will crush you.â Thatâs the opening line of a satirical column, putatively written by Jeff Bezos, in…
At its core, the way we make money is simple: We sign leases with tenants, get their registers ringing and pocket the rents. Ever wonder, then, why leasing is such…
This past June, a Utah newspaper reported that Amazon planned to spend $200 million on a single Salt Lake City distribution center. That was a record amount, but not all…
When TheRealReal did a New York pop-up store last year, it raked in $2 million in just two weeks. That happens when you sell brands like Christian Louboutin, Cartier, Chanel…
Earlier this week we joined The Shopping Center Group at their all-hands University where we discussed innovation and disruption facing retail real estate. Headwinds are both cyclical and secular, but…
