Big Box Retail Market Remains Healthy

SEATTLE, WA-The big-box retail market is “absolutely as strong as ever” says Steve Ruggerio of First American Properties. However, he conditions that statement with, “But tenants aren’t just willing to pay anything–competition is fierce, and the deals have to make economic sense.”

Ruggerio discussed with GlobeSt the recent press received by The Good Guys, an electronics retailer that is considering closing down several Puget Sound stores. “Everybody likes to focus on the ‘oh, no’ of a chain going away. They forget that when you see companies like Home Base, Ernst and The Good Guys leaving the market, the dollars that were being spent there are being redistributed to better retailers–they don’t just go down a hole.”