Retail: Recorded

The Retail sector has proven its resiliency against several formidable challenges in recent years. But how does that add up from an investment perspective? In what ways are market shifts and changes affecting investment sales, considering both macro and micro effects? Some trends are positive while others are putting people and institutions on pause. Like swirling tornadoes, global events have bee...

The neighborhood shopping mall just isn’t what it used to be. Such news could mean trouble for every community — or opportunity — depending on who’s involved. This drama of crossroads and choices is playing out across the country. America currently has too much space devoted to solely physical retail establishments. But that’s changing. And for many communities, the change is more than an opportun...

The uncertainties of pandemic-related challenges have exposed startling legal ambiguities in retail leases — affecting both landlords and tenants — and lease language is adapting as a result. Are you prepared to lease spaces affected by changes in omnichannels, qualified gross sales, shifting tenant demands, and more? Host Anjee Solanki asks San Francisco-based legal expert Ken Valinoti Esq. about...

Property managers have always been a jack-of-all-trades. But ever since the COVID-19 pandemic sparked significant changes in commercial real estate, REMS (Real Estate Management Services) professionals have been working through an accelerated evolution that will carry us all into the future. More than ever, they’re assisting landlords and tenants in meeting today’s demands with action, innovation,...

Imagine sitting at a conference table with a coworker in London, another in Hong Kong, and a third in New York. Think of Zoom on steroids — implementing advanced technologies in augmented and virtual reality to put you inside what seems like a real room with your global contacts. That’s the metaverse. Much of it is already here, and if you’re not paying attention, you could be left behind. The goo...

Are you a self-proclaimed data geek? If you answered yes, you won’t want to miss out on our latest podcast on decoding retail data. We have a very special guest, Gregg Katz, Vice President of Real Estate Strategy at Creditntell. He oversees the retail advisory platform and is focused on market dynamics trends and consumer shopping behaviors. In this episode, we ask Gregg, once you have the da...

On our 10th episode, we connected with James Rodriguez , Colliers’ Senior Vice President of Retail in Los Angeles, who focuses on the Hispanic grocery market. Take a listen and learn about the top performing Hispanic grocers serving the Southwest region and what they all have in common. Without giving too much away, James shares with us that one of the key factors to their success is their ability...

For our ninth episode, we connected with Peter DeBiase, President of Restaurant Trends, whose family has dedicated much of their careers to examining every dimension of the business of restaurants — specifically chain restaurants or those in the QSR space — and sharing the data and insights collected throughout the process.  We spent the bulk of our conversation peeling away the layers of the...

As the temperatures and vaccination rates both creep up, visions of buzzing restaurants and chilled drinks are starting to approach the sphere of "normalcy" once again. With an appetite to learn more about "a day in the life of a retail broker" during this almost-post-COVID era, we connected with one of our top restaurant brokers, David Gabbai, Executive Managing Director out of our Orlando, FL of...

February was a short month with a long to-do list, but we're thrilled to bring to you this next episode to kick off the month of March. For this month's episode, we stole some time on Jazmen Johnson's calendar to discuss diversity, equity and inclusion — specifically within the commercial real estate industry. As the Director of DE&I for ICSC, Jazmen is uniquely qualified to speak to the matte...

To kick the year off on an inspiring and refreshing note, Anjee connected with Shopify's Kristen LaFrance for an episode chock-full of insights, creativity and energy with the "official mayor of DTC Twitter." As the host of Shopify's Resilient Retail podcast series (and Playing for Keeps and eComm Noms before that), LaFrance was a no-brainer as a guest on our show. Her depth of experience crafting...

In an interview tucked in between Black Friday and the Christmas holiday, Anjee Solanki, National Director of Retail Services in the U.S. for Colliers International , catches up with Director of Consumer and Retail Trends at Creditntell Seema Shah . Armed with more than 20 years of experience in consumer sector research and retail analysis, Seema was well suited to address the shift in retail grow...

For our fourth episode, we were lucky enough to find time for a conversation with retail powerhouse, Carrie Bobb, founder and CEO of Carrie Bobb & Co.  Over the course of this 12-minute episode, we learned how this industry veteran and retail "shero" earned her cape: completing more than $2 billion in transactions over the first 16 years of her career, landing a spot as one of the Power W...

In our third episode, Anjee catches up with her counterparts representing the Industrial and Healthcare service lines. Pete Quinn, National Director for Industrial, and Shawn Janus, National Director for Healthcare, take turns weighing in with current market updates for their respective sectors.

In this episode, Anjee Solanki, National Director of Retail Services in the U.S. for Colliers International, catches up with Grant Guidinger, VP of Real Estate for WellBiz Brands, Inc., an umbrella company that encompasses Amazing Lash Studio, Elements Massage and Fitness Together.

Anjee Solanki, National Director of Retail Services in the U.S. for Colliers International, explores a C-suite perspective to the current climate in CRE with U.S. CEO, Gil Borok.