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Retail Recruitment Checklist: Prepare Your City to Win Retail

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Prepare Your City to Win Retail

Guide your community with our Retail Recruitment Checklist


Tired of watching retail dollars slip away? Follow our guided checklist to prepare your community.

Cities that thrive don’t just hope for growth—they plan for it. In this exclusive guide from Retail Strategies, you’ll get a proven, step-by-step checklist to attract and retain the retailers your community craves.

What does the retail recruitment checklist cover?

  1. How to decode your market and pinpoint exactly what your shoppers need
  2. Insider tips to prep your city for retail success—think shovel-ready sites and smart incentives
  3. The playbook for targeting the right retailers with data-driven precision
  4. Strategies to rally city leaders, stakeholders, and industry players behind your vision
  5. Plus, how Retail Academy can supercharge your efforts with expert training and tools

Why a Guide Matters:

Retail leakage isn’t just lost sales—it’s lost jobs, vibrancy, and opportunity.

This isn’t generic advice; it’s a tailored roadmap crafted by experts like Madeline Farr, Elliott Cook, and our implementation team at Retail Strategies, who’ve helped cities nationwide turn potential into progress.

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Download this checklist and start building a retail-ready future for your community.

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How we work for your city

Retail Strategies dedicates Real Estate Professionals to your community to perform the heavy lifting of retail recruitment.

While our retail checklist can help, our team brings insider insights and a rich network of retailers.

A few communities that have successfully recruited retail:

Jasper, AL

Maryville, MO

Rogers County, OK

Zion, IL

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About Retail Strategies Recruitment

Retail Strategies is the national expert in community development and retail economic development. Our mission is to provide the real estate expertise, tools, and human effort that position deserving towns as alluring locations for national businesses and destinations for tourism and quality-of-life amenities. We confidently pursue this mission by delivering unparalleled customer service as a unified team with unmatched real estate and community development expertise. Our activities pay a return in sales taxes, added jobs, and businesses that enhance and add to the unique qualities of your community.

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I’ve told every city leader that has called to ask about Retail Strategies, ‘You’d be foolish not to try.’

John Feary

City Manager

Claremore, OK

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We are excited to have a turnkey program that supports all sectors — retail services, restaurants, traditional retail, and landlords. This platform will empower our small business owners with the tools and knowledge they need to succeed.

Andrea de la Rosa

Assistant Director of Small Business Development

City of Bloomington

Service: Retail Strategies
I really enjoyed the meeting with Laura Marinos and Jennifer Gregory of Retail Strategies! They were very informative and supportive. They gave me so much information and tips for taking my business to the next level in the marketing area where I lack tremendously. I finally decided on a new name so I will be putting their tools into action soon!

Stacy Grant

Business Owner

Youngstown OH

Service: Retail Strategies
Retail Strategies has been an incredible asset to both my clients and me in deal-making. Their folks do a great job of listening to retailers’ requirements and providing value. They’ve proven to be a strong conduit between municipalities and retailers supporting growth through connections.
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Casey Smallwood

SVP, Managing Principal & Market Leader, SRS Real Estate Partners

Service: Retail Strategies
I would highly recommend Retail Strategies. They have been a great partner to the Hendry County Economic Development Council in our recruitment efforts to bring more retail opportunities to the county. Their experience, knowledge, and relationships throughout the retail community combined with their friendly approach has made them a valued partner in our community’s growth efforts.

Keitha Daniels

Executive Director of the Hendry County Economic Development Council

Hendry County, Florida

Service: Downtown Strategies
The thing that we really liked about Retail Strategies is that they work together with you and the community. We had to put together an executive committee that consists of some town employees, officials, some citizens and plus myself from the chamber. Retail Strategies has a very diverse background. They have people that are from economic development, they have people that were realtors, they have people that are downtown development directors, people that are in tourism, people that are in retail, so they really have all avenues.
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Julie Beck

Mount Olive Area Chamber of Commerce President

Mount Olive, NC

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