Heartland Real Estate Business  By: Kristin Harlow On the food-and-beverage front, developer Steiner + Associates is targeting premium dining concepts, according to Spencer Jordan, senior vice president of leasing for the Columbus, Ohio-based firm. These users “can function as both a destination and an anchor for adjacent retail,” she says. Read more at Heartland Real…

Heartland Real Estate Business By Beau Arnason & Laura Wedekind Property management has evolved from traditional operations and maintenance to strategic placemaking. Today, property managers curate tenants and experiences, transforming  properties into vibrant retail destinations. The competition for consumers’ dollars, time and attention–especially in the Columbus market–is greater than ever. That means no element of…

Commerce + Communities Today By Steve McLinden An excess of retail space pre-COVID yielded to a dearth of it. Now, the industry has finally started a measured march to equilibrium. Forecasts show a small uptick in new retail construction planned for 2025 and considerably more for ensuing years. When paired with rising investor interest and…

Chain Store Age  By: Al Urbanski Gavin Thomas, who led the development departments at Kite Realty Group and Hendricks Commercial Properties, can now be found in Columbus tending to the ever-evolving Easton Town Center. Read more at Chain Store Age….

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…

Chain Store Age | Al Urbanski, Editor & Manager Easton Town Center is located in Columbus, Ohio Why did Easton Town Center repeat as the No. 1 Retail Center Experience in 2022? Because it never stopped improving and adding things that make the 1,300-acre property more town than town center. Such as… • More art! The…

More than 30 million people visit it each year and spend more than a billion dollars there.

As Ohio enters summer free from most pandemic restrictions, our brilliant team has strategically thought of activations that will continue to differentiate Easton Town Center. From live concerts and yoga in the park to bar crawls, pedal wagons and scavenger hunts, we are making Easton Town Center the place to be in Columbus while the…

Retail sales were flat last month after a buoyant March, the Commerce Department said on Friday, as Americans continued spending their latest round of government stimulus checks.

As the Chief Development Officer at Steiner + Associates, ICSC CenterBuild covers exactly what I do on a day-to-day basis—that is, the planning, development, design and construction of shopping centers and retail-focused initiatives.