Shopping Center Business By Kristin Harlow Sports and entertainment destinations offer several benefits to retail properties — they boost foot traffic, encourage consumers to linger, complement traditional retail and provide opportunities for refilling vacancies. Pickleball, gaming and music venues are some of the most prolific concepts in today’s experiential marketplace. “Entertainment is complementary to retail…

Commerce + Communities Today By Ben Johnson A significant tenant rollover has yielded an opportunity for Easton Town Center to enhance its roster with a formal Fashion District. Retailers and restaurants will begin opening this year just as Columbus, Ohio’s population surges and the property celebrates its 25th anniversary. Read more at Commerce + Communities…

Heartland Real Estate Business By Spencer Jordan The retail environment in Columbus, Ohio is not just among the most unique and diverse in the Midwest, but in the nation. Columbus currently enjoys the fourth highest concentration of retail headquarters of any American city. Familiar names like Bath & Body Works, Victoria’s Secret, Express, Big Lots!…

Total Retail By Spencer Jordan At a time when the commercial real estate landscape is evolving with unprecedented speed, changes in big-box retail are an important storyline. Appreciating how and why big-box concepts have thrived in a post-pandemic environment, and understanding the logic behind decision making with regard to everything from store layouts to merchandising,…

The Crittenden Report By Linda Frabl Spencer Jordan, the SVP of Leasing for Steiner + Associates provided her perspective to this month’s Crittenden Report question: are there any new retail tenancy trends that you are particularly excited about as we enter into 2024, and why? “I see a hybrid approach to wholesale and DTC (direct…

The Robin Report By Ken Hewes Columbus, Ohio is the 32nd largest metro area in the U.S. ranked by population and known, primarily, for its Ohio State NCAA Big 10 football team. But according to one of Placer.ai’s geolocation benchmarks, Columbus is also home to America’s #1 trafficked open-air shopping center, Easton Town Center. Easton…