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Ontario commercial real estate insights, updates and happenings.

 COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE RESOURCES

Slaying the Location Dragon

The Book on Retail Site Selection

Have you ever noticed that the big nationally branded retail chains get the best locations with the best visibility & parking?

Do you want to know how to do that for your retail, restaurant or service business?

This book will empower the service, retail or food business owner, in the quest for the ideal locationYou will learn the secrets and fundamentals of strategic retail site selection and key lease negotiation techniques and tips that will enable you to score the best possible location for your business and your target market.

About the author

kelly laughton headshotAs an international, award-winning marketing director & national director of marketing for 32 shopping centers nationwide, I have worked with hundreds of retailers, restaurants & service businesses. I was also the real estate manager for major national retail chains including Blockbuster Video, Dominos Pizza & more.

Kelly with the late Bob Proctor, an extraordinary teacher, mentor and Best Selling Author.

I know what it takes to get the right location & lease terms & I know the perils of getting it wrong. With 3 decades of experience, I have the knowledge to help businesses achieve success thru savvy site selection & location branding.

What you will learn

Vertical Villages:

The Magic of Mixed-Use Developments

It seems so simple and straightforward, doesn’t it? Surely, to create a successful Mixed-Use Development just requires selecting the most complimentary property elements you can imagine and combining them, right?

Wrong!

And even worse, if one lacks the experience of developing the planned added elements, awful problems can arise that may never be possible to remedy after the project is built.

I’ve seen my share of “see through” projects around the world and they’re not pretty! And some of them have been created by companies and people we would all consider to be leaders in their fields!

This book is the remedy, written by 17 subject matter experts with a combined hundreds of years of successful Mixed-Use Development experience, using global best practices we’ve learned working at home and internationally. It’s the antidote to the poisonous, uninformed experimentation that can kill a project even before it begins.

retail site selection course

Online courses:

Retail site selection 

6 Steps to choosing the right location

Have you ever noticed that the big nationally branded retail chains get the best locations with the best visibility & parking?

Do you want to know how to do that for your retail, restaurant or service business?

This three part course will empower the service, retail or food business owner, in the quest for the ideal locationYou will learn the secrets and fundamentals of strategic retail site selection and key lease negotiation techniques and tips that will enable you to score the best possible location for your business and your target market.

What you will learn

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