"Anchor stores" refers to the big and well-known retail stores located at the entrance or corners of a shopping mall or center. These stores serve as a "anchor" or main attraction for the other smaller stores in the mall, drawing in customers and generating foot traffic. They often offer a wide range of products and have a strong brand presence, helping to boost the overall success of the shopping center.
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The challenge is compounded by declining malls that fail to attract foot traffic
as anchor stores drop like flies.
The two casinos in adjacent counties would act like
anchor stores at a shopping mall, he said, helping the struggling towns in between.
Another challenge for shopping center owners is that most retailers, particularly the
large anchor stores, are locked into 15 - to 20 - year leases.
The old Belk
anchor store in Ocoee's West Oaks Mall has become vacant again.
According to a report in The Atlanta Journal - Constitution, the retail chain is closing seven Macy's stores in the market,
including anchor stores at...
Today, Belk is a staple in dozens of malls across America, with around half of its 300 US locations serving as
anchor stores for shopping malls.
The ongoing question is how landlords will reuse the space
when anchor stores like Macy's and specialty retailers adopt leaner store footprints.
Retail developments used to rely
on anchor stores, but they're now dependent on a sense of place.
When so -
called anchor stores pull out of a mall, the leases for the other smaller stores often become too high, so they relocate or close.
In an attempt to save themselves, many malls are replacing traditional
anchor stores with places like restaurants and movie theaters, The Journal recently reported.
This was before the
Sears anchor store closed down a few months ago so they may have shelved their plans.
In West Palm Beach, which sports the state's highest per capita income level ($ 33,518), vacancy numbers are down despite the loss of seven
anchor stores last year.
GGP has been buying up and
redeveloping anchor store properties at its malls, replacing struggling tenants — often department stores — with new options it thinks will do a better job drawing shoppers.
The value in B malls, which feature
anchor stores like J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), is being driven by the mall subsector's higher capitalization rates.
Even today the
typical anchor store pays around $ 4 per square foot in annual rent; the average non-anchor tenant paid $ 42.22 per square foot a year as of the third quarter of 2016, according to real estate analytics firm Reis.
A dead mall in my area just sold a stand
alone anchor store, 200K sf and 12 acres of parking for $ 850K.
The
other anchor stores in the mall are JC Penney and Macy's, which have had their woes well documented.
A home
improvement anchor store, a Payless Shoes, Lane Bryant, Maurices, Sally Beauty Supply, T.J. Maxx and Fashion Bug are expected to fill out the north end of the development.
The town is preparing for a possible decrease in the assessed value of the Hudson Valley Mall, which lost two
anchor stores before being sold for a fraction of its former value.
To give you an idea of how the Retail Apocalypse may change brick - and - mortar shopping, this mall is down to just
single anchor stores.
Dave & Buster's will not be the only entertainment center hosting the U.S. location test for the new collaboration between Bandai Namco and Nintendo: the Round 1
anchor store located at Puente Hills Mall in City of Industry, California, now also has Pokkén Tournament.
Large locations that
held anchor stores like Target and Future Shop may be replaced by two or three smaller tenants.
Specialty grocer Whole Foods is planning a 46,000 - square -
foot anchor store for the project, well within the city's 50,000 - square - foot limit for new retail stores.
Leasing and project manager Eileen Stoner will supervise the leasing process for SRC, and G. Richard Hanor will focus his talents on
acquiring anchor stores.
Davidowitz notes that while the market often looks to
anchor store performance to assess the health of retail centers, specialty retailers pay most of the rent.
A Nike Factory Store, Forever 21 and Marshalls are among the six
anchor stores announced Tuesday for the new outlet mall opening May 2 next to Edmonton International Airport.
Chicago - based GGP and Seritage Growth Properties, Sears» real estate investment trust spinoff, previously split ownership of 12 Sears
anchor stores through a joint venture formed in 2015.
In April real - estate research firm Green Street Advisors noted that the shuttering
of anchor stores could lead to the closures of hundreds of malls.
Smaller retailers followed, and as of Feb. 2016, 33 percent of the mall space — not
including anchor stores — sat vacant, according to Bloomberg data.
During Gap's expansion into malls, the company did so with thousands of stores, many of which went into secondary or lackluster shopping centers that only became worse over time
as anchor stores lost their ability to attract foot traffic, Davidowitz says.
When anchor stores close, it can be hard to find businesses to replace them, because they occupy the multistory buildings at mall entrances that are often at least 100,000 square feet.
GPI Cos. owns the separate 220,000 - square - foot Macy's property — the
mall anchor store — and an accompanying 1,550 - car parking garage.
Back then, only two of the mall's three
large anchor stores — the Bon Marche and J.C. Penney — were part of national chains.
One of the three
anchor stores in the Stanford Shopping Center is the iconic Bloomingdale's.
anchor store at Paragon Outlets Twin Cities at Eagan in the Greater Minneapolis / St.
With
anchor stores like Giant Foods, Home Depot and Marshall's, Palmer Town Center in Easton, Penn., is decidedly outside the ranks of trophy properties.
We were definitely
the anchor store in the mall, a fact upon which I could leverage many wonderful marketing relationships.
Instead, Nordstrom will be pulling merchandise from other mall -
anchored stores and from its website.
While Nordstrom is still opening a slew of typical - size, mall -
anchor stores, its latest strategy to move toward smaller locations shows how the company is battling retail headwinds.