Just when retailers thought the challenge of the Great Recession was finally behind them, another challenge - lurking for years – is rising fast: Amazon. 

Hundreds of articles have been published with advice on how “brick and mortar” retailers can differentiate their ph...

Just when retailers thought the challenge of the Great Recession was finally behind them, another challenge - lurking for years – is rising fast: Amazon. 

Hundreds of articles have been published with advice on how “brick and mortar” retailers can differentiate their ph...

During a lease negotiation, the retail tenant likely will spend the majority of its energy focusing on the business terms in the lease - such as rent, term, TI allowance, security deposit.

The tenant also should spend some time thinking about its operation in the premis...

A radius restriction is a restriction put in place by a landlord when it charges percentage rent.  The radius restriction prevents a tenant from opening another store within a certain radius of the leased premises. 

Purpose

The purpose is to prevent tenant from open...

In leases, the rented space is measured on a square foot basis, and the rent is calculated on dollar-per-square-foot basis.  This much is known and is pretty obvious to most people.

Drilling down a bit, leases become more complicated when the question is asked: ‘how is...

A recent article in Bloomberg news highlighted the complexities of the conservation easement tax break.  A conservation easement is a voluntary legal restriction by a landowner to permanently limit uses of the land to protect its conservation values. 

The federal g...

Just when retailers thought the challenge of the Great Recession was finally behind them, another challenge - lurking for years – is rising fast: Amazon. 

Hundreds of articles have been published with advice on how “brick and mortar” retailers can differentiate their ph...