Retail restaurant client seeking new location for his conceptual idea of the next hottest restaurant to hit the valley. So I took a call from, let’s call him Mr. X, who cam through from the office line the other day and began to wonder why I did. The gentleman was deliberate on his presentation, knew exactly what he was looking for, and basically told me how I should do my job of representing him. Well, after I heard about how I did not...

Recently I have been charged with finding the best locations for Snap Fireworks in all of Arizona. Finding the best locations for Snap Fireworks is exciting and fun at the same time. Not only are there plenty of retail spaces available, landlords are looking for this type of retailer to bring to their shopping centers, corner lots, and parking areas. This allows for the landlord to attract major traffic to their property, and that equates to...

With a recent uptick in same store sales, Tropical Smoothie is in growth mode once again. Tropical Smoothie has been experiencing a bit of a downtrend over the past year, until recently. There has been a surge in customer loyalty and new customer acquisition, and with the help of bright and shining stars at the helm of operations, Tropical Smoothie is, once again, expanding in key markets. Those markets include Arizona. This is where I step...

This new client is looking for a building to purchase. They have been in business for a few years, and right now, business is good! They are completely busting out of the seems right now, and literally are stacked on top of each other in their current building. Here is the catch though, because you know there is always a catch, they are buying a new building and keeping the old one too! Not really a catch, but an extra. So, here is what they...

As I have been selecting sites so that my clients can review and parse through to find the ultimate space for themselves, I have found that there are new ways of going about this old skillset. What are the old ways you ask? For starters, there is the basic criterion that needs to be established: Geographics, demographics and psychographics, etc. Second, there are level one criterion: Size, shape, co-tenants (if any), traffic counts, egress and...

There was a book written by Jim Collins called Good to Great. I am a huge fan of this book as it talks about how being great, and in this case we are going to be talking about how to be a great retail tenant. Being good is just not cutting it any more, especially in commercial retail real estate. That is the topic of today’s thoughts. Let’s dive right in. So, I woke up this morning and read an article about Michael Jackson and...