As REI opens, Foulger-Pratt aims to build NoMa’s next retail destination
The warehouse, once home Congressional Record printer National Capital Press Co., is envisioned as the retail hub for a larger mixed-use project Foulger-Pratt plans at the site, which will include two residential buildings and hotel…
Dean & Deluca to Open Second DC-Area Location in Bethesda
Bethesda fans of Georgetown’s unique retail options soon won’t have to leave home for a taste of the grocery market’s uppermost crust. Dean & Deluca will open its second DC-area gourmet food market in a three-floor, 14k SF space at JBG’s 4749 Bethesda Ave in 2017. Dochter & Alexander Retail represents…
Retail Foot Traffic Trends: The Region’s Busiest Streets
Dochter & Alexander Retail Advisors has been tracking the pedestrian flow of DC’s major shopping and restaurant streets. Retail can’t survive without customers, so the team has been diligently monitoring and analyzing pedestrian patterns 24/7 over the past 12 months.
Essentials for ICSC: The Latest Retail Market Stats
Dochter & Alexander Retail Advisors released its newest market report highlighting key retail market stats and trends across 16 submarkets. Here are some things to know before ICSC: The East End, M Street in Georgetown, and Downtown Silver Spring were big retail winners this past quarter, with strong leasing activity.
Best Real Estate Deals of 2015: Earth Treks
Earth Trek’s 45,000 square foot indoor rock climbing facility adds another layer to Crystal City. Since 2014, Vornado Realty Trust has worked to transform Arlington’s Crystal City into lively hub of new eateries, startup businesses and fitness activities aimed at attracting millennials. The latest addition…
Best Real Estate Deals of 2015: REI Uline Arena
REI flasgship in D.C. is a top real estate deal of 2015. Outdoors outfitter REI wasn’t even planning to open one of its rare flagship stores in the District when it set out on a D.C. real estate search more than three years ago. It was thinking of doing something perhaps a little larger than its nearby suburban stores — Greater Washington had been a good market for the Kent, Washington-based brand, after all — but not a flagship, of which there are only four others in the country…
How Luxury Movie Theaters Are Transforming DC’s Retail Market
The experience of going to a crummy old movie theater and choosing between giant sodas and giant candies hasn’t exactly helped to stem the tide of movie watchers preferring to stay home to catch a flick. But developers are banking that a far better moviegoing experience will help reverse the trend…
Last Night at the CREBA Awards
Last night, CREBA held its 34th annual awards ceremony at the Capital Hilton in downtown DC. Especially when the night’s big winner, Cushman & Wakefield vice chairman Spencer Stouffer, took home the Brendan McCarthy Memorial Award. Spencer is a four-time CREBA top broker winner for NoVa—including this…
High-end Discount Department Store makes it Official for DC
It’s official: Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th is coming to 555 12th St. NW, joining a fellow discount luxury offering, Nordstrom Rack. Dave Dochter of Dochter & Alexander Retail Advisors confirmed Saks will take a little less than 34,000 square feet in the building, most of which was formerly home to ESPNZone…
2016 Retail Transaction of the Year
CREBA promotes excellence within the industry. The Retail Transaction of the Year award honors the top retail transaction of the calendar year.
2015 Best Real Estate Deals – REI Uline Area
REI leases space at Douglas Development’s Uline Arena – Washington Business Journal (bizjournals.com) Washington Business Journal Each year, the Washington Business Journal honors the top leases, acquisitions, deliveries, financing deals and sales in Greater Washington.
2015 Best Real Estate Deals – Earth Treks
Earth Treks signs lease at Vornado Realty Trust building in Crystal City – Washington Business Journal (bizjournals.com) Washington Business Journal Each year, the Washington Business Journal honors the top leases, acquisitions, deliveries, financing deals and sales in Greater Washington.
2015 Top Regional Retail Broker
Awards | Creba Greater Washington Commercial Association of Realtors CREBA promotes excellence within the industry. The Top Regional Retail Broker award honors the top brokers in Washington D.C. Nominees are selected based on their overall production during the calendar year and prior years, along with their display of leadership qualities within their respective firms, active involvement in community service, and overall participation in the commercial real estate industry.
2015 Retail Transaction of the Year – REI at Uline Arena NE
Awards | Creba Greater Washington Commercial Association of Realtors CREBA promotes excellence within the industry. The Retail Transaction of the Year award honors the top retail transaction of the calendar year, based on submitted applications.
2015 Project of the Year – Uline Arena Development
Awards | Creba Greater Washington Commercial Association of Realtors CREBA promotes excellence within the industry. The Project of the Year award recognizes the project that has made a positive impact – whether it is economic, aesthetic, cultural, philanthropic, or otherwise – on the Greater Washington area landscape. The project can be a new development, redevelopment, creative rehab, or creative redesign.
This Five-person Firm Is Changing The Way Dc Does Retail
Since branching off from Cushman & Wakefield to launch their own retail brokerage firm—Dochter & Alexander Retail Advisors—Dave Dochter (right) and Matt Alexander (left) have signed several new deals—including REI to Pike & Rose in Rockville and Uline Arena…
2015 CoStar Power Broker
The CoStar Power Broker Awards recognize and celebrate commercial real estate’s top brokers and firms in the United States and Canada. Each year CRE professionals have the opportunity to submit their closed sale and lease transactions to be considered toward the Annual Power Broker Award. CoStar then verifies and analyzes thousands of deals submitted to identify winners in each market (based on cumulative deals; SF and PSF). Recognized as the premiere industry award, both the firms and brokers have the opportunity to obtain this recognition which places you among the industry’s elite. Winners of the annual and quarterly deals awards receive extensive promotion in the CoStar product and marketing channels. In addition, exclusive winners’ templates are made available to promote your success among your peers and clients. Annual Power Broker winners will also receive a personalized trophy.
What the Experts Got Right and Wrong in their 2015 Predictions
While no one has a crystal ball, it doesn’t stop us from trying to predict the future. Just for fun, let’s go over a handful of real estate forecasts made last year by leading commercial real estate firms and experts and see how things actually panned out. Prediction: There will be no…
In Silver Spring, the Long, Difficult Business of Saving a Mall
You don’t have to look far to find a developer that’s decided it’s time to give up on the mall business.Owners of a string of local malls decided it’s time to go in another direction in recent years as big box stores and online shopping ate away at their base of shoppers…
What You Need to Know About the DC Retail Market
While the multifamily and office markets are both making plenty of noise, no market in DC has been as consistently excellent over the past handful of years than retail and food. That’s why we’re excited to present our DC Restaurant and Retail event on Oct. 27 at the historic Howard Theatre…
Barnes and Noble Closing its last non-college store in DC
Big box bookseller Barnes & Noble will close its last bookstore not on a college campus in D.C. come winter, when it shutters its store at 11th and E streets NW.The 32,000-square-foot store follows the closures of several other large bookstores in the District in recent years: Barnes & Noble’s Georgetown store…
REI to Open a New Large Store in the Region; H&M May Follow
Popular outdoors outfitter REI will open a 35,000-square-foot store at Pike & Rose, the new mixed-use development from Federal Realty on Rockville Pike at Montrose Parkway. The store will be a relocation: REI will move its existing Rockville store at 1701 Rockville Pike to Pike & Rose…
CITI Open
We spent the last week at the Citi Open tennis tournament. Here, the best photos from a super fun week. At the semi-finals: EagleBank EVP Larry Bensignor with his wife, Fern, and Linowes and Blocher partner Rich Zeidman with his wife, Nancy. Who knew DC could have such perfect weather…
More Restaurants Heading to Shaw, Dolcezza heading to 44 Whole Foods
We’ve already had a lot of Shaw restaurant and retail news lately, and we’ll keep on adding fuel to that red-hot restaurant neighborhood fire with some more: three new restaurant concepts have signed on to The Colonel, a residential development at 1250 Ninth St. NW…
Dave Dochter and Matt Alexander Leave Cushman to Start New Retail Firm
Retail brokers Dave Dochter and Matt Alexander are no longer with Cushman & Wakefield and plan to launch their own brokerage, Dochter confirmed Friday. The pair — who worked together at Cushman the past five years…