Navigating Retail Real Estate as a Small Business Owner? Consider Us Your Guide
As specialists in retail real estate, we work alongside landlords, developers, investors and brands to help them evolve. For this article, we’ll be focusing on our relationships with retailers and brand partnerships.
Mastering the art of retail real estate is a constant moving target. When it comes to small businesses in particular, we’re committed to demystifying retail real estate processes, the lingo, why landlords sometimes make the choices they make, negotiation, funding and more.
The nuances of commercial real estate can be tough to navigate—especially for independent retailers.
National and regional brands typically have well built-out internal and external experts as part of their team, with a dedicated real estate division that executes on real estate strategy. Our approach is all about connection. It’s important for us to sit down with our exclusive clients to identify their retail real estate goals. We enjoy getting to know the founders and owners of the brand, understanding their business model to strategize future growth and gauge their desired space size, demographics and identify other business drivers —and most importantly, walk through (and sometimes help fine tune) their budget.
We have a lot of experience working with indie brands and established emerging brands who are ready to learn the retail real estate process. Thinking about opening a brick-and-mortar? We got you covered! Our team takes pride in offering an integrated advisory approach throughout the lifecycle to help manage expectations and provide results!
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Our love for retail & supporting small businesses runs deep.
Having a dream, and taking a leap to start a business is a huge milestone that anyone should be incredibly proud of.
That being said, the commercial real estate process doesn’t always resonate to the small business community—it can be confusing and complex. We’re here to help simplify the process every step of the way throughout the retail real estate journey. It could be early stages of property evaluation, determining ways to create value or diving deep into overall concept creation. Our extensive knowledge of the marketplace, our plethora of long-standing relationships and our ironclad network is vital to our clients’ success.
“Megan is a shark with cute outfits and beautiful hair. Her sweet personality makes her amazing to work with, but there is no shortage of drive and determination that got me the best deal during every part of the negotiation process. She asked all the right questions that I didn’t know I needed answers to. Commercial real estate is a male dominated industry. Megan made her voice heard in the room and also gave me room for mine. We set the tone together. I walked into an old appliance store covered in dust and heinous tiling and Megan helped me see the vision. I look back at photos and laugh because if I would have walked into this space alone back then, I would have turned right back around. Megan’s direction was a pivotal point in the start of my business coming to life that I’ll never forget. " — Haley Guiette, founder Be-In Bridal
Consider us your real estate department—an extension of your team.
It doesn’t matter if you’re an independent retailer, emerging brand, or looking for ways to maximize your investment. Our services are tailored to the client’s needs—whether you opt into our Help Desk offerings, dive deep into our retail real estate consultancy to lay the foundation before brokerage services commence, or hire us for our landlord and tenant advisory services to create value and execute on your goals with overall strategy, site selection, and negotiation.
No matter where you are on your path, our personalized retail real estate advisory and coaching services get you one step closer to reaching your goals.
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We’re an official sponsor for the Edible Northeast Florida Business Insider Newsletter! Now through June, you can find us featured in the monthly newsletter where we will be sharing retail real estate tips for business owners who specifically work in the retail, wellness, food, beverage and hospitality industries. It’s the perfect resource for those looking to unlock their highest potential in the retail real estate—from expansion strategy, to opening up your business and more. You don’t want to miss this.