A Look Ahead: Emerging NYC Submarkets for Retailer Expansion

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Pedestrians on Median in Times SquareICSC New York Update: Retailers are growing in a calculated and cost effective way by getting creative with store footprints and locations. While their appetite for the best sites remains strong, the sought-after high-street space in the city will be limited through 2017, pushing retailers into new areas. JLL’s retail experts point to a few… Read More

How to Compete with Online Merchants: Use Physical Advantages

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ICSC New York Update: JLL’s Steve Jones says, it’s easy for store retailers competing with online retailers to feel like they are pushing a boulder up a mountain in today’s web-driven economy. The good news for retailers is that not all consumers shop on price alone. The critical components of consumer buying habits are price, customer service and experience. Every consumer weighs these considerations differently, but each store needs… Read More

Four Forces that will Propel Retail Investment Sales in 2014

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ICSC New York UPDATE: The recession took a major toll on the retail real estate sector but, despite waffling consumer confidence, the sector continues to improve. Retail now accounts for 19 percent of total U.S. investment volume year-to-date 2013. Today, JLL’s retail experts predict upwards of a 20% increase in retail transaction volume in the year ahead driven by four key forces.

1. Strengthening Fundamentals: the retail market will continue to turn around

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Shoppers Hit the Snooze Button this Black Friday

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photo1UPDATE: JLL Retail managed shopping centers report that late night Thanksgiving shopping excursions kept the crack-of-dawn shoppers in bed a little longer this morning. The mad dash to the mall was delayed, with most centers seeing an increase in traffic between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., and steady shoppers since then.

Retailers within JLL Retail managed centers are reporting bustling corridors and… Read More

Turkey Tryptophan Didn’t Set In: Thanksgiving Shoppers Gobbled Up Sales

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Retailers across the U.S. opened their doors on Thanksgiving, giving shoppers a post turkey dinner work-out. A cross section survey of malls under JLL Retail’s management showed that Thanksgiving Thursday may have stolen Black Friday’s lime light. Several properties reported packed parking lots and lines in excess of 1,000 shoppers to get big ticket items from retailers like JCP, Target, Belk… Read More

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Big Box, High Velocity: The 411 on E-commerce

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BigBoxJLL’s inaugural Big Box Velocity Index says, that demand for U.S. industrial distribution centers larger than 300,000 square feet is high and rising. Improving economic conditions, the continuing growth of e-commerce and a deep bench of tenants seeking space has created a highly competitive fight for industrial and warehousing space. As a… Read More

JLL Marriage with Surge Retail Makes Sense

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Jones Lang LaSalle Retail Group has bolstered the firm’s retail tenant representation practice by adding more than 30 retail brokers throughout the country in the past 18 months.   Notably, Michael Hirschfield and Steve Farris of Surge Retail recently joined JLL through a merger agreement announced in late July.  With the addition of the powerhouse duo, who bring relationships with major retailers Aldo, Bose, Fossil, Swarovski and more, we can now offer clients… Read More

A Match Made in… Suburbia

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Retail net absorption has been moderate in Chicago, but so far positive. New concepts are branching out of the urban core and exploring the options in suburbia.

The Western and Southwestern suburbs are peaking the interest of expanding occupiers and owners – a perfect match. JLL’s Claire Bitautas and Anne Imming said that landlords are looking to fill medium 5,000 square feet of  inline space, and… Read More