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Retail Insight interview with Dan Duke and Ryan Hatfield of Bohler.
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Bohler on Why the Old Development Playbook No Longer Works

by SCB Staff

The easy sites are gone. The linear development process — pick the site, draw the plans, permit, build — no longer reflects the reality of retail development today.  In this Retail Insight interview from ICSC Las Vegas, reporter Nellie Day sits down with Dan Duke, COO, and Ryan Hatfield, director of market advancement for retail at Bohler, to discuss what’s going wrong on retail development projects and what the smartest developers are doing differently.  Their core argument: most timeline and budget problems aren’t lost in construction — they’re lost at …

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Retail Insight interview with Maria Toliopoulos of Cullinan Properties.
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Rock Run Collection: Mixed-Use Magic in the Making

by SCB Staff

Location is everything in retail, and Rock Run Collection has a compelling location — anchored by a new interchange that opened in August 2024, connecting the 310-acre Joliet site to I-55 and I-80, two of Illinois’ busiest expressways. The project, which Cullinan describes as the largest super-regional development currently underway in the Midwest, will encompass more than 1 million square feet of retail, dining, entertainment, hospitality, multifamily and office uses.  In this Retail Insight interview from ICSC Las Vegas, reporter Nellie Day sits down with Maria Toliopoulos, chief strategy officer …

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Retail Insight interview with Lauren Ball of Westwood Financial
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Westwood Financial: The Case for Neighborhood Retail

by SCB Staff

Neighborhood retail has become one of the most competitive investment categories in commercial real estate. In this Retail Insight interview at ICSC Las Vegas, reporter Nellie Day sits down with Westwood Financial COO Lauren Ball to discuss what’s driving the company’s near-98% occupancy rate across its grocery-anchored portfolio. Ball points to a straightforward but powerful dynamic: a decade-plus supply shortage meeting surging population growth in high-migration markets, with institutional capital now pouring into retail after years of being underweight in the sector. The result is compressed cap rates, rising NOIs, …

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Retail Insight 2026 interview with Carrie Smith and Greg Matus of Franklin Street.
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Franklin Street on What It Takes to Win in Today’s Shopping Center Market

by SCB Staff

The shopping center used to compete with the shopping center down the street. Today, it’s competing with convenience — and the owners who understand that distinction are pulling ahead.  In this Retail Insight interview from ICSC Las Vegas, reporter Nellie Day sits down with Carrie Smith and Greg Matus, both executive vice presidents at Franklin Street, to unpack what’s actually driving success in today’s retail real estate market. Their read on the market: the winners are focused on dwell time and visit frequency (instead of trade area radius), curating tenant …

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Retail Insight 2026 interview with Melissa McClain, economic development manager for Moreno Valley, California.
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What’s Driving Retail Demand in Moreno Valley

by SCB Staff

When local restaurants are outperforming their national chain averages by as much as 25 percent, retailers tend to pay attention.  In this Retail Insight interview from ICSC Las Vegas, reporter Nellie Day sits down with Melissa McClain, economic development manager for the City of Moreno Valley, to explore what’s driving one of Southern California’s most compelling — and still underleveraged — retail markets. With 215,000 residents and 2.4 million people within a 20-mile trade radius, the city has quietly built the consumer base retailers look for. Average household incomes have …

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Retail Insight 2026 interview with Davon Barbour, president & CEO of the Downtown Austin Alliance.
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Austin Hits 1 Million Residents — and Retail Is Keeping Pace

by SCB Staff

Austin has crossed a milestone — the city of Austin population now tops 1 million, making it the 12th most populous city in the U.S. — and the retail momentum is matching the growth.  In this Retail Insight interview from ICSC Las Vegas, reporter Nellie Day sits down with Davon Barbour, president & CEO of the Downtown Austin Alliance, to talk about what’s driving deals in a city that’s attracting big names: Justin Timberlake is opening The Twelve Thirty Club in the heart of downtown, and Kevin Durant is partnering …

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Retail Insight 2026 interview with Bart Lowen, vice president of development for PB Development.
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Bluhawk: Where (Youth) Sports and Lifestyle Come Together

by SCB Staff

The department store is gone. The movie theater struggled. So what’s today’s anchor tenant? For PB Development, the answer is youth sports — and their Bluhawk project in Overland Park, Kansas, is making the case.  In this Retail Insight interview from ICSC Las Vegas, reporter Nellie Day sits down with Bart Lowen, vice president of development for PB Development, to discuss youth sports — a $50 billion industry that, as Lowen puts it, is as certain as death and taxes. The 600,000-square-foot Bluhawk mixed-use development is anchored by a 400,000-square-foot …

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Retail Insight 2026 interview with Deepak Bahl of San Bernardino County, California.
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San Bernardino County: A Retail Market Built for Growth

by SCB Staff

San Bernardino County — the largest county in the contiguous U.S. — is making a compelling case for retail investment, and the numbers back it up.  In this Retail Insight interview at ICSC Las Vegas, reporter Nellie Day sits down with Deepak Bahl, acting economic development director for San Bernardino County, to unpack what’s driving one of Southern California’s most dynamic retail markets.  With a population of 2.2 million, a three-hour drive market reaching 23 million people, and median household incomes rising as much as 40 percent since 2019 in …

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Moreno Valley: Hub for Growth and Opportunity

by Sarah Daniels

  Located in Southern California’s Inland Empire, Moreno Valley has emerged as a significant growth center and a friendly home to retail. As highlighted by Melissa McClain, head of marketing & business attraction for the city, the area’s robust development is driven by substantial job creation and strategic planning. “Truly the catalyst for the growth in Moreno Valley has been jobs. We’ve created more than 34,000 jobs in the last eleven years. And because of that, we now have more than 7,700 single-family and multifamily residential units that are either …

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Northmarq: What Factors Will Influence Deal Volume in the Second Half of 2023?

by Sarah Daniels

  Leasing activity, occupancy and capital markets demand for multi-tenant retail remain strong, but interest rate hikes have brought transactions to a halt. “On the supply side, we just aren’t seeing a lot of listings out there,” says Patrick Kelley, associate vice president with Northmarq. “There is not a lot of activity in terms of sales,” explains Ernest DesRochers, senior vice president and managing director with Northmarq. “Buyers are looking for shorter-term financing, being able to prepay with little or no penalty, and hoping to take advantage of lower rates in …

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