Analysis and insights on commercial real estate property management across the office, retail, multifamily and industrial sectors as well as the alternative CRE property types.
Among other duties, Nate Fishkin oversees the identification, planning and development of Main Street-style projects for Rockville, Md.-based Federal Realty Investment Trust. Fishkin, who is passionate about the trend, talked with SCW about...
Retail leases usually contain provisions addressing the responsibility for maintenance and repair of the leased premises or shopping center. Two areas that can give rise to lease- language-interpretation problems are replacement and structural...
One of the most critical provisions of a shopping center lease is the use clause. What the tenant may sell or operate in its premises not only affects the tenant but also impacts the tenant mix of the center and the landlord's future leasing plans...
With the construction of "big boxes" proliferating at an ever-increasing pace, it seems appropriate to address a number of the issues that landlords and tenants face with respect to development of such big boxes...
In order to encourage a tenant to lease space in a shopping center, a landlord sometimes will agree to give the tenant some protection from competing businesses by granting the tenant an "exclusive" right to operate its business in the center...
Although small tenants often do not think of themselves as having much leverage in a lease negotiation with a landlord, there can often be situations, particularly in the context of a strip center, where a landlord may be highly motivated to lease...
