Shopping centers have increasingly become attractive locations for healthcare. The industry has long been a cornerstone of the retail sector, but its integration into shopping centers has reached new heights. Tenants like dental offices and urgent care facilities don’t just coexist with traditional retail spaces, they thrive together. And increasingly, healthcare firms can use repurposed vacant retail space and are interested in retail shopping centers.

The providers are desirable, typically with good credit and solid flow of patients who are also consumers that can feed into other retail establishments, so there will be competition for them as tenants. Holland & Knight has eight suggestions for how to make a property more attractive to potential tenants.

One is to reserve parking spaces close to the front door of the location so ill or frail patients can have an easier experience entering the facilities. An extension of the idea is to have a canopy for a covered curbside location.