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The Crisis-Proof Shopping Center
By John Cumbelich While an anxious national media reports on the retail apocalypse, spiking vacancy rates and big-name bankruptcies, perhaps it’s time for...
Curing Retail: Repurpose, Rezone or Replace
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Registry originally published this article on May 21st, 2020. We are bringing it back because of its relevant message.) By...
Podcast: John Cumbelich, CEO of John Cumbelich & Assoc.
John Cumbelich is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of John Cumbelich & Associates. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, the firm has been...
Prop D’s Bad Actor
By John Cumbelich In the March elections, San Franciscans approved Proposition D, a new tax sponsored by a member of the Board of...
John Cumbelich & Associates Welcomes Sade Ghorban
Sade Ghorban is dedicated to assisting his clients with the acquisition, disposition and marketing of investment sales properties. He began his commercial real...
Retail Double Whammy
By John Cumbelich The suburban shopping center business is not in crisis. But the simultaneous presence of two unsettling dynamics in the industry...
Bay Area Flagship Retail Centers Better Equipped to Handle Market Fluctuation
By Meghan Hall The previous two years have been interesting ones for traditional retail centers as several waves of bankruptcies and anchor store...
Online Dating
By John Cumbelich The real estate industry’s version of online dating can be found in places with names like LoopNet, Crexi, Commercial Search,...
Russ Solomon, R.I.P.
By John Cumbelich The world of retail lost an inimitable icon last week with the passing of Russ Solomon, the founder of Tower...
We’re Overbuilt in Retail
By John Cumbelich America’s inventory of shopping centers is ominously overbuilt. Even if the migration of retail sales to the internet had not...
Short the (Department Store) Stock
By John Cumbelich [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Department Store business model is dead. Macy’s and JC Penney are closing stores by the hundreds. Sears is on...
