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McNellis: Mattress Firm’s Moral Bankruptcy
By John McNellis Mattress Firm, the nation’s largest mattress retailer, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month. Why did it go bankrupt? Simple. The...
Santa Cruz County’s Scotts Village Sells for $15.35MM
Cushman & Wakefield Brokers Sale of Prominent 121,000 SF Center in Scotts Valley, CA SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (August 2, 2018) – Scotts Village,...
McNellis: Could California Flame Out?
By John McNellis The phone rang early yesterday. “Well, our center’s still standing,” my partner said. “Whoa.” “The fire’s only a couple blocks...
Reading the Tea Leaves of Retail
Retail is a process of reconstruction, but some key aspects of the industry remain John McNellis helps manage McNellis Partners out of a...
Screwed: Brokers Tell-All; A John McNellis Column
“Business is the polar opposite of a high school dance—you can always find someone to screw you.” By John McNellis “Dear John: I...
McNellis: Many Happier Returns
Solving E-Commerce’s Challenge to Traditional Retail Comes in Small Packages By John McNellis Before the Wall Street Journal pontificates again about retail’s demise,...
McNellis: Does WeWork at All?
Company discloses $1 billion losses in bond offering By John McNellis Wall Street’s biggest houses just hawked $702 million in junk bonds for...
McNellis: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
By John McNellis If you are an entrepreneur, you are an optimist. You have to be. And, Pollyanna aside, it is no simple...
McNellis: Is the 1031 Exchange Panacea or Placebo?
By John McNellis Upon selling a supermarket last week, we deposited our proceeds into a 1031 exchange account. Call this maneuver the triumph...
McNellis: The Hell of Regulatory Interpretation
By John McNellis One truth that bears learning is this: News is very seldom as good—or as bad—as it first appears. Even when...
McNellis: Housing Crisis Band-Aids
By John McNellis [dropcap]G[/dropcap]overnor Jerry Brown just signed fifteen affordable-housing bills into law. A few might do a little good. Two senate bills...
McNellis: Leaving Retail
By John McNellis [dropcap]I[/dropcap] received an invitation to attend a cocktail party in Los Angeles at next week’s International Council of Shopping Center (ICSC)...
