Food halls are more complicated that the average observer might expect. As JLL says in a new report, they're difficult to design, build, curate and operate. Perhaps more worrisome, it adds this somber observation: With so many of them sprouting up, odds are that some will fail. JLL's new report "So You Want to Build a Food Hall" is a soup-to-nuts guide to making sure that a food hall investment is a success. It covers everything from choosing an operator, to developing a food hall brand, to appealing to a target customer base. It also provides a number of case studies of successful food halls around the US. Read more about those in our slideshow.

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Erika Morphy

Erika Morphy has been writing about commercial real estate at GlobeSt.com for more than ten years, covering the capital markets, the Mid-Atlantic region and national topics. She's a nerd so favorite examples of the former include accounting standards, Basel III and what Congress is brewing.