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Sep 4, 2026/Strategic Growth
The 30-second filters operators run before the numbers
Aug 31, 2026/Strategic Growth
7 Signs Your Site Selection Vendor Is Slipping Before Renewal
Aug 28, 2026/Strategic Growth
Do You Have to Drop Your Current Site Selection Vendor?
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The 30-second filters operators run before the numbers
Most candidate sites die before anyone opens a model. Three questions do the killing: who else is in the center, whether the physical box fits the format, and whether the rent clears the occupancy ratio the business actually runs at.
Sep 4, 2026
9 min read
7 Signs Your Site Selection Vendor Is Slipping Before Renewal
Service quality drops long before the renewal quote arrives. Here are the seven signals real estate teams notice first, and the point at which two of them should start a real comparison.
Aug 31, 2026
9 min read
Do You Have to Drop Your Current Site Selection Vendor?
Almost nobody reads the contract before assuming they are stuck in it. Here is what a site selection agreement actually restricts, and how to test a second source mid-term without canceling anything.
Aug 28, 2026
8 min read
How tenant-rep brokers run site analysis across many clients
A tenant rep carrying a dozen retail clients does not need a dozen processes. Here is the split that holds: one method for everyone, criteria per client, and a workspace nothing crosses.
Aug 26, 2026
9 min read
Franchise Site Approval: Building a Case Franchisees Accept
Franchise site approval has two gates. The franchisor approves. The franchisee pays. Here is what a site package needs to clear the second one.
Aug 24, 2026
8 min read
Site selection across a private equity platform: one standard, many brands
A platform with a dozen operating brands usually has a dozen site-selection processes. Here is how to put one standard over all of them without flattening what makes each brand work.
Aug 19, 2026
9 min read
How to Defend a Site Selection Forecast to Your Board
The number is not what gets tested in the room. What gets tested is whether you can take it apart. Here is what makes a site forecast survive a board, and why franchisees ask a harder version of the same question.
Aug 17, 2026
Site Selection Tools: How Many Does One Store Take?
One site decision usually walks through eight to twelve tools. The count is not the problem. The handoffs between them are, and here is how to price yours.
Aug 14, 2026
8 min read
Franchise Territory Mapping: How to Draw and Defend Territories
Franchise territory mapping decides what a franchisee actually owns. Here are the four boundary methods, what Item 12 has to disclose, and how encroachment starts.
Aug 7, 2026
9 min read
Restaurant Location Strategy: How Restaurants Pick a Site
How multi-unit restaurant brands actually choose a site: pick the format first, size the trade area by drive time, forecast sales, then test the rent against the forecast.
Aug 5, 2026
9 min read
Business Location Strategy: How to Pick Where to Grow
A location strategy decides which markets you enter, in what order, and how fast, before anyone looks at an address. Here is how to build one from your own store data.
Jul 27, 2026
9 min read
Customer Profiling for Retail: Building Profiles from Trade-Area Data
A retail customer profile turns the people inside a trade area into a picture you can score against. Here is where the data comes from, how to build one, and where profiles go wrong.
Jul 24, 2026
8 min read
This Week in Retail
Store closures, expansion tracking, and original market analysis. A five-minute read every Thursday.