PODCAST:
Trends in Rural Retail
Our interview guest—the first in our ICSC interview series—is Lacy Beasley, President of Retail Strategies; she joins the show to discuss current trends in small- and mid-sized market retail. Topics include the importance of retail to rural markets, what retailers are doing to adjust based on market size when entering a rural market for the first time, and which retailers and restaurants are seeing the most demand from the markets themselves.
Released on May 23, 2022
PRESIDENT
Lacy Beasley
Lacy is the president of Retail Strategies, a full-service advisory firm that works with municipalities on business recruitment through commercial real estate connections. Lacy is on the Board of Trustees for ICSC and has spoken on retail trends and best practices in retail recruitment at hundreds of events across the U.S. and Canada.
