Commercial Retail

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What’s everyone’s take on the fate of commercial retail? (Malls, strips, etc).

My take is malls (especially in mid to lower markets MSA’s) may never recover.

(No supporting data here) - I’d have to imagine stores like Macy’s are being heavily supported by women consumers 40+? Hard to justify that demographic jumping at the chance to get back into publicly crowded areas...

Additionally, assuming there ever is a post-COVID “normalization” - What type of commercial tenant would even consider signing a lease at one of these outlets?

Look forward to your thoughts!

  • Dan
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If there is one thing I can say, it's that TJMAXX will survive. My girlfriend and mom never stop talking about how they wish they could go.

But in reality, I think we'll see what we've been seeing. Bad retail will die, good retail will continue to thrive. I'm thinking we're going to see a lot more of the ghost kitchen model popping up and I believe for the retail that does survive, people are going to begin valuing personal space even more, so we could potentially see larger square footages across the map.

 

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