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“What's so exciting is this is all about to emerge. It's like electricity in this industry. This is going to be transformational,” said Colliers International's head of innovations.

Hartman Simon attorney Jeremy Cohen catches up with GlobeSt.com at ICSC's RECon event to discuss three key factors at play when developing a center from a retail standpoint.

There is a robust demand for many apartment properties in fast-growing secondary cities.

And according to Joe Dykstra of Westwood Financial, the brick-and-mortar grocers might be the ones to finally crack the online grocery code.

Landlords are backfilling vacant big-box spaces with multiple discount retailers, while Amazon explores growth in brick and mortar to complement their digital presence, says Hanley Investment Group's Bill Asher.

The deal is following Blackstone's exit from its position in Hilton last week.

ICSC RECon speaker David Huntoon, president of Intalytics, says that trade area and customer segments, are two of the many key site selection criteria to help drive successful unit performance.

In the opening workshop session, held Sunday morning at ICSC's RECon Convention, Yaromir Steiner, CEO of Steiner + Associates, talked about how understanding the difference in need based services versus want base services is key.