Bringing In Grocery Tenants Is A Smart Move—Here’s How To Find Them

While guidelines around COVID-19 update almost daily, one fact has stood firm over the last 4+ months: people are staying home. Whether by government mandates, their own personal concerns, or just because options for outside activities are extremely limited, most people are working, schooling and interacting from the safety of their own houses.  This has… Continue reading Bringing In Grocery Tenants Is A Smart Move—Here’s How To Find Them

Top Five Complaints About Retail Tenant Databases

What’s a tenant database? It’s a list of expanding retailers and contact information for key decision makers in those organizations. If you work in retail commercial real estate, you’ve undoubtedly used a retail tenant database to help you find and connect with potential tenants. Retailsphere was created to advance the retail tenant database beyond just… Continue reading Top Five Complaints About Retail Tenant Databases

Top 5 Trampoline Parks to bring to your Shopping Center

Cute boy jumping on trampoline in entertainment center.

Trampoline parks and bounce houses are popping up left and right, and there’s a good reason for it. No longer are they merely a fun party idea for your 5-year-old kid (though they’re still that, too), but they are fun entertainment venues for all ages. They have kid and family-friendly areas, as well as attractions… Continue reading Top 5 Trampoline Parks to bring to your Shopping Center

Top 5 Doggie Day Care concepts in the Mid-Atlantic

With Coronavirus, pet adoptions have increased dramatically. Even before this, younger generations were finding themselves adding pets to their families. Once travel begins to open back up after Covid-19, people will begin looking for their next destination to visit. This also means finding a place where these pets can stay and have fun while their… Continue reading Top 5 Doggie Day Care concepts in the Mid-Atlantic

Top 5 Fitness Studios in the Mid-Atlantic

Fit group people in exercise gear standing in a row holding dumbbells during an exercise class at the gym

Studio fitness centers, or “boutique” studios, are riding an up-cycle in the health-club business. With growth of more than 100 percent among fitness concepts in the past five years, the segment remains an out performer. Studio clubs have an intimate feel with personalized instruction and are quick to advance the latest fitness trends. They’re increasingly… Continue reading Top 5 Fitness Studios in the Mid-Atlantic

Top 5 Growing Ramen Chains

Ramen, Japanese for “pulled noodles,” is still called Chuka Soba in some dining spaces. But by any other name, those delicate wheat-flour noodles served in long-simmering broth, are still…delicious. Japanese ramen restaurants began taking North America by storm in the past half decade, opening on the coasts and now working their way inland. But the… Continue reading Top 5 Growing Ramen Chains