NEW YORK CITY-If the goal of the retail session at the Academy for Continuing Education session Thursday was to stump the presenter, the score would be: crowd-zero; speaker Faith Hope Consolo-too knowledgeable to beat.
Attendees peppered the so-called “Queen of Retail,” chairman of Douglas Elliman's retail group, with questions about various portions of the city, even drilling down to particular blocks, in terms of what retailers—or types of retailers—either are set to fill vacant store fronts or are likely to come to a neighborhood soon.
Following are some of the secrets and tips Consolo divulged to the room full of brokers who paid rapt attention to the talk.
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
