RETAIL REGENERATION
03/21/2024 |
While retailers closed 5,000 net stores in 2019, 6,000 net stores during pandemic-plagued 2020, and several hundred in 2021, since then the improvement has been amazing. In 2022, 1,500 net stores opened, in 2023 almost 500 opened, and YTD, 750 have opened. Combine that with almost no new retail construction allowing oversupply to dissipate, and booming suburban demand and the vacancy rate is below 4.8%, a record low.