It takes a lot. It takes a lot to listen to a market and hear the needs of retailers to help them know where they will thrive and grow. Sure, people think about shopping centers and favorite places to eat, but understanding the infrastructure of a community, the roads, lights, traffic, water, and even schools are necessary to knowing fertile soil for retailers. Shopping and dining provides that unique local experience, the character and the sense of place that attracts people. It's vital to have both national and local retailers if you want to keep your community happy and thriving. Without retailers and restaurants, you cannot attract the people. The people make the human infrastructure, the happy workforce that will sustain your businesses. That's how you attract a workforce, how you build character in a sense of place. It all comes through retail. It takes time, attention, and focus. It takes a lot. In two thousand and five, Robert Jolley and Mead Silsbee saw a need in the market for commercial real estate to work with retailers, landlords, and developers. They formed a retail existing businesses? Again, they listened to property owners, retailers, and community officials. In twenty eleven, Robert and Mead formed Retail Strategies to help communities in retaining and recruiting retail. Working side by side with a commercial real estate firm, partnering with retailers and communities, developers and landlords. It takes a lot. Now with over sixty employees, clients and offices across the nation, we believe in the human infrastructure. We believe people do deals, not just data. Every day, we bridge the public private partnership gap. We extend the reach of local governments and expand their staff, providing the resources and tools to attract and grow retail. We build the relationships you need to grow a vibrant community. It takes a lot. At Retail Specialists and Retail Strategies, we listen to our communities. We listen to our property owners. We listen to retailers. We continue to listen and add services that grow communities throughout the nation. As practitioners, we represent all of them, and we deploy our experiences, our data, and our connections to build communities across America. It takes a lot, and we have what it takes.
