Category Archives: Tenant Representation

Fast Fashion Retailers Head Down Under

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fast-fashion-retailers-head-down-underForeign retailers are flocking to Australia to invest in bricks and mortar after finding their feet online, according to retail experts at JLL. E-commerce adoption in Australia is high – largely because of its remote geography – and online shoppers spend more per purchase than anywhere else in the world. As a… Read More

Mark Raines Joins JLL to Lead Houston Retail Brokerage Practice

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???????????????????????Building on its strong growth in Texas, JLL today announced it has expanded its retail capabilities into Houston with the addition of Mark Raines as a Senior Vice President. Partnering with Dallas Retail Brokerage Lead Clay Smith and Austin and San Antonio Market Lead Todd Wallace, Raines will focus on JLL’s retail business including tenant representation and agency leasing and will serve… Read More

Copa do Mundo and beyond: Brazilian retail surges

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Players from 32 countries are pouring into Brazil for a month-long contest of extraordinary soccer skill, known as the Copa do Mundo, the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Cheering them on will be an expected 3.7 million fans and tourists, adding an astonishing $3.3 billion USD ($6.7 billion Brazilian Real) to this nation’s economy. According to Brazil’s Ministry of Tourism, the average foreign visitor will attend four Copa do

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VIDEO: Livin’ Large: Luxury Retail Market

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Designer goods have always held a prominent place on the richest streets in America. On the Las Vegas strip at the ICSC conference, thousands of high street retailers are gathering to determine the best strategies to serve the shopping elite. Experts say now more than ever, luxury brands are including a mix of both physical and online presence.

 

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In Chicago Will the Mighty Middle Retailers Survive?

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Excerpt by Ian Ritter, GlobeSt.com: Read the Full Story

Chicago_ChicagoMattChicago is on the front lines when it comes to the struggles that middle-market grocery companies are facing, while competitors targeting consumers in both the lower- and upper-income brackets expand and flourish. At the end of last year, Dominick’s, a household supermarket name in the area, closedRead More

Retail Expansion From the Mall Up

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Excerpt from GlobeSt.com Greg and Steve - standing

Aggressive company expansions typically come through organic growth or accretive acquisitions. For JLL Retail, the company’s path to forming a competitive national brokerage business began with a new outlook at the local mall level.

“We changed how we viewed the growth of our retail business during strategy session several years ago,” Greg Maloney, the… Read More

Gold Rush to SoCal’s Retail Market

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Excerpt by Ian Ritter, GlobeSt.com: Read the Full Story

Someone once asked Jesse James why he robbed banks, and he said, ‘That’s where the money is.’ The same sentiment holds true for Southern California where the coastal communities, for the most part, are doing very well, Craig Killman of JLL points out.

Robert Gibson Joins JLL to Expand NYC Retail Practice

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Robert Gibson has joined JLL as vice chairman of New York retail brokerage to lead the expansion of the firm’s retail platform in Manhattan, and will be responsible for the growth of retail tenant and agency leasing in the market.

“New York is a vital market for international retailers pursuing entry into the U.S., and for national retailers seeking access to an extremely dense customer base. As retail’s globalization continues and competition

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You’ve got questions, who’s got answers…now that RadioShack’s closing 1000 stores?

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RadioShack’s Super Bowl Commercial The 80’s called…. They want their store back was a big hit, and may have been extremely prescient. But despite the headlines, the new store design promoted in the commercial is not counter to closing excess and underperforming stores— in fact it supports it, says JLL’s Michael Hirschfeld.

Shuttering storefronts is not revolutionary anymore, it’s evolutionary! In one fell swoop Radio Shack is changing how consumers perceive them, and

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