Retail Real Estate Planning

Retail Focus is a San Francisco-based consulting firm that offers real estate planning services for shopping center developers, owners and investors. The firm works coast to coast on shopping centers of all types and sizes, bringing to bear a unique merchandise-oriented perspective and many years experience in the retail and shopping center industries.

Retail Focus provides comprehensive market, property and competition analysis that it uses to advise in the following areas:

•  Redevelopment and repositioning of older shopping centers

•  Site feasibility assessment for potential retail development

•  Due diligence for shopping center acquisition and disposition

•  Tenant mix planning and sales forecasting for new and redeveloped/repositioned shopping centers

•  Landlord/Tenant litigation

The firm specializes in providing market research data and interpreting it to make it clear and actionable for the client, assisting shopping center executives understand how to take full advantage of local demographics, expenditure potential, traffic patterns and consumer behavior .

Retail Focus offers a synthesis of the trade area dynamics and works with clients to create customized and innovative planning solutions for their needs. The goal of Retail Focus is the customer satisfaction, improved sales productivity and maximum profitability of its clients.

The research and planning solutions offered by Retail Focus assist shopping center executives who may lack either the time or the in-house expertise for the necessary due diligence and planning needed to improve and maximize the value of their assets.

Professionals who might use the services offered by Retail Focus include the following:

•  Developers of shopping centers

•  Prospective buyers of shopping centers

•  Sellers of shopping centers

•  Lenders to shopping centers

•  Asset managers of shopping centers

•  Shopping center managers

•  Leasing managers

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