DALLAS—Today's department stores account for roughly 1% of all retail sales, according to a Customer Growth Partners consultancy/New York Times report of late last year. In contrast, malls topped occupancy lists back in the 1980s, holding a 10% share of all US retail sales.
Ironically, that is the share that e-commerce currently holds, according to a recent report by Weitzman. Given these e-commerce impacts on the mall sector, Texas net-lease product continues to show impressive demand, says T. Reed Hudson, associate director of Stan Johnson Company, in this exclusive.
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