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Retailers looking to access and customize a pop-up space now have a new tool: ShopLAB, which recently opened at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio. ShopLAB is a 500-square-foot store space which opened this fall at the mall.
Retail real estate professionals were ooh-ing and aah-ing over Restoration Hardware’s 90,000 sq. ft. “gallery” in New York’s Meatpacking District at the ICSC show in early December. Now the retailer has staked out high-profile ground in Columbus.
Easton Town Center is undergoing a significant expansion that will feature local and national retailers, breweries, restaurants, entertainment venues, hotels and public event space.
Tavistock Development Co. and Steiner + Associates showcased Lake Nona Town Center at the International Council of Shopping Center’s New York Deal Making Conference this month. ICSC NY is the largest retail real estate event on the East Coast for networking, deal making and professional development.
Born in Istanbul and educated as a civil engineer in France, Yaromir Steiner brought a fresh outlook to the American retail real estate industry he joined with the inception of Steiner + Associates 25 years ago. His notion of building an outdoor center with streets and plazas and metered parking in front of store entrances was a radical departure when Easton Town Center opened in Columbus, Ohio, in 1999.
Despite an economy that has enjoyed almost uninterrupted positive growth since the deep recession of the late 2000s, those who work in and around retail will be quick to tell you that it isn’t all milk and honey for the industry.
When it comes to understanding the details behind many retail shopping centers, the source of record is often the original architects who designed and planned every square inch of space.
Orlando’s Lake Nona Town Center, developed by Tavistock Development Company with its retail planning, leasing and development partner Steiner + Associates, is the 100-acre centerpiece of the 17-square-mile Lake Nona community.
Tavistock Development and Steiner + Associates have lifted the curtain on their star entertainment tenant at Lake Nona Town Center in Florida and it’s Cinépolis.