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Stephanie Skrbin, a principal with Avison Young, travels to a lot of shows throughout the year, but says that ICSC's RECon is the show to mingle and interact with her fellow real estate professionals, and she is very much looking forward to it. If you are like Skrbin, and are heading to the big event this weekend in Las Vegas, you aren't alone. We, along with 40,000 or so attendees will also be there, so we took some time out to exclusively talk trends and expectations with some attendees before the big event.

“I expect the conversation to revolve around what the industry will look like in five to 10 years. Even though our industry seems to be in a constant state of upheaval, there is a lot of positive momentum around the retail space, and disruption is going to give us a lot to think about,” Skrbin tells GlobeSt.com.
“We want to talk to others about the emerging retail concepts that are going to define 2018 and beyond, since there are a lot of intriguing concepts that are starting to take shape. Combining digital outlets with physical spaces is definitely something that is going to happen a lot, but we're seeing some of these online-only entities just dipping their toes in the physical waters (at least at first.) That should change as more and more companies do it,” Skrbin says.