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Aug
30
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5Qs for broker Kenneth Katz on Houston, the nation’s retail build leader

With residential construction on the rise, as well, Katz figures the Clutch City to be a retail destination for years to come. Houston is hot! Well, temperature-wise, of course. But it’s been America’s most torrid retail
  • Chain Store Age
  • Houston
  • market trends
  • Development
  • Kenneth Katz
Jan
17
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Inflation Deflation

Inflationary pressures are altering the retail development landscape It is not exactly breaking news to point out that inflation was one of the biggest economic storylines of 2022. At one point over the summer, the 12-month
  • market trends
  • Kenneth Katz
Nov
15
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Rtic, expanding beyond coolers, opens flagship store in Cypress

Rtic Outdoors has designed a flagship store that’s just begging to be Instagramed. Customers are greeted by a 24-foot “R” inlaid with a polar bear, the company’s logo. A Ford F-150 truck, displaying coolers, is parked
  • rtic
  • Cypress
  • market trends
  • Houston Chronicle
  • Jason Baker
Oct
30
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Randalls continues retreat from competitive grocery market

The Houston grocery chain Randalls will shutter three more local stores by year’s end as the company continues to struggle in the region’s hyper-competitive market. Randalls, a unit of the national supermarket company Albertsons, said Tuesday
  • Houston Chronicle
  • Jason Baker
  • market trends
  • Randalls
  • retail
May
03
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Retail rents rising, despite industry turmoil

Rent for Houston retail space has risen to an all-time high, despite a long-term decline in brick-and-mortar businesses. The average asking rent for Houston retail space during the first quarter rose to $16.90 per square foot,
  • Toys R Us
  • retailers
  • market trends
  • Houston Chronicle
  • Jason Baker
Jan
30
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What’s ahead in 2018? Houston business likely to grow, not boom

What will 2018 bring to Houston’s bustling business community? We turned to some of our reliable sources for their observations and predictions for the year to come. Here’s a compendium of what we learned: Economy to
  • market trends
  • Houston Chronicle
  • Jason Baker
Jan
30
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A Retail Recalibration Throughout Houston

For retail tenants and developers alike, Houston’s Space City moniker could easily be interpreted as a kind of tongue-in-cheek double meaning, mainly because space is one thing Houston always has plenty of. Commercial developers have taken
  • Momentum Indoor Climbing
  • market trends
  • Kenneth Katz
  • RE Business Online
  • Jason Baker
Dec
29
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Here are the Houston-area stores HEB plans to open in 2018

It’s been a year of growth for San Antonio-based H-E-B Grocery Co. in Houston, and 2018 will be no different. In 2017, the company opened two locations and a Joe V’s concept in the greater Houston
  • HEB
  • market trends
  • Kenneth Katz
  • Houston Business Journal
Oct
24

Mid-Week in the South and Mountain Regions

Here’s a look at the trends, announcements and deals you may have missed at the mid-week point in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arkansas. NEWS AND NOTABLES AUSTIN, TX—Legend Communities and Crescent Communities announced Rough
  • Mias
  • Mia's Table
  • market trends
  • Jason Baker
Mar
08
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Theater Wars Light Up The Big Screen

HOUSTON—A new generation of experiential movie theater concepts is departing with industry conventional wisdom and beginning to change mixed-use development calculations, says Baker Katz in this EXCLUSIVE. HOUSTON—While going to the movies has always been an
  • Ben Brown
  • Jason Baker
  • market trends
  • Globe St.
Aug
14
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INFILLING STATION

Houston’s ongoing retail development evolution is evident in new leasing trends and patterns of urban infill The story of Houston, Texas has added some exciting new chapters in recent years. With low unemployment, a booming economy and one
  • Houston landscape
  • Chain Store Age
  • market trends
  • Kenneth Katz
  • Jason Baker
Jul
24
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Houston’s Mission: Control

Retail development amidst the ongoing emergence of an iconic national city The first of a three-part exclusive series To the extent that it can be said about the nation’s fourth most populous city, Houston has been
  • Grocery
  • Chain Store Age
  • market trends
  • Kenneth Katz
  • Jason Baker
May
16
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Changing Perceptions

By Jason Baker & Dave Chetham Toward the end of 2008, it became painstakingly obvious to retailers that impulse spending was out and frugal saving was in. Faced with an imminent recession, staggering job loss and quickly
  • discount retail
  • Chain Store Age
  • market trends
  • Jason Baker