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Commercial Construction Tips on Dividing a Retail Box into a Multi-Tenant Space

As a shopping center landlord or retail developer, you might find yourself with a big empty retail space you need fill – especially if you had Borders or Circuit City as a tenant. Finding a single tenant to occupy all that space in today’s economy can be challenging, so the smarter and more feasible move [...]

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Commercial Construction Checklist for Retrofitting a Shopping Center in Today’s Climate

It’s a mixed bag of commercial construction news for shopping center developement. On one hand, retail sales continue to show improvement from last year, yet the suburban shopping mall – or at least the traditional enclosed shopping mall – seems to be on the way out. So what’s a successful shopping center developer to do [...]

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Understanding Today’s Separation of Landlord and Commercial Tenant Construction

While I think everyone in the retail industry likes to hear news that 2011 retail sales are up – as it usually means new retail construction projects are in the pipeline – it’s still tough for shopping center landlords to make deals work with retail tenants. Why? Because it can become a bad game of [...]

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