The Ground Truth

When a grocery anchor goes dark, the instinct is to panic and chase a like-for-like replacement as fast as possible. Both are usually mistakes. In this episode, host Mike Law and Kevin Bissell get into what actually happens when an anchor leaves a center: why the first 90 days matter more than the vacancy itself, why the right backfill is often a completely different kind of grocer — or no grocer...

Anyone can pull a dashboard. But the intelligence that actually decides a retail real estate deal — whether a store will hit its number, whether an anchor is as strong as it looks on paper — still comes from walking the store.  And almost nobody does it anymore. In this episode, host Mike Law sits down with Kevin Bissell from CRE360 Partners to break down field research and store casing: the ungla...

Why grocery anchors still win — with Kevin Bissell For 35 years, Kevin Bissell has been walking grocery stores. Not the executive tour, not the quarterly analyst visit — the actual aisles, the back of the produce section, the parking lot at 11am on a Tuesday. He's the Senior Vice President of Real Estate Research at CRE360 Partners, and he's spent three and a half decades building the kind of know...