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…
The Dave & Matt Swat Team
When one of America’s five biggest REI stores (out of 140) announced recently it would take 51k SF in NoMa’s Uline Arena, it didn’t happen by magic. Behind the scenes was a machine. Or more precisely, the Cushman & Wakefield retail group led by Matt Alexander, left, and Dave Dochter…
No Shopping Malls Built Since 2009
Cierra Dorsey has “good memories” of the mall where she dragged teenager but now prefers, like other Americans, shopping elsewhere: the “shopping mall” traditional symbol of consumption in the 1960s, has more booming in the United States…
US Shopping Mall Culture – Dying or Just Changing?
Cierra Dorsey has happy memories of hanging out at the mall as a teenage girl, an adolescent rite of passage under threat in parts of the US as old-fashioned malls close their doors. While high-end malls thrive…
The Mall, US Consumer is an Endangered Species
Dorsey has “good memories” of the mall where walking in his teens, but now prefers like other Americans, do their shopping elsewhere: the traditional shopping mall…
US Shopping Mall Culture—Dying or Just Changing?
Cierra Dorsey has happy memories of hanging out at the mall as a teenage girl, an adolescent rite of passage under threat in parts of the US as old-fashioned malls close their doors. While high-end malls thrive…
Why Landlords and Restaurants Better Play Nice
Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Stephen Strasburg and Wilson Ramos. Developers and restaurants. One of those partnerships might seem not like the others, but as we heard yesterday at our 4th annual DC Restaurant Development Summit…
Sip Wine Tasting and Tapas Signs Lease in Rosslyn
The days of limited watering holes in Arlington’s Rosslyn neighborhood are coming to a close, it seems. The latest in a string of new spots, from Heavy Seas Alehouse to the forthcoming Bistro 360, will be Sip Wine Tasting and Tapas Restaurant…
Luxury Shopping Returning to Downtown DC. Is Washington Ready to Buy?
A lawyer leaves a deposition and pops into Tumi for new carry-on luggage ($680). A tourist ducks out of the rain and treats herself to a classic trench coat from Burberry ($1,695). Two conventioneers skip the plenary session…
Swallow The Money
Elaine Chon-Baker is sitting at the mafia table, and everyone is treating her like the boss. “You get one of my favorite cocktails of all time—not on the menu,” says bartender Steve Oshana as he approaches the secluded corner of Arlington restaurant Water & Wall, where we’re…
The Power 100: Influential Players Running Washington & the World
Cushman & Wakefield’s David Dochter, 34, manages a $500 million portfolio and is helping make Washington a bustling retail center with projects like the massive mixed-use CityCenter…
America’s Dead Malls
In an interview with AFP, David Dochter discusses the evolution of retail in the United States and the impact it has had on the American mall culture.
CREBA 2013 Winners
Last night at the Fairmont Hotel, CREBA celebrated the best in the brokerage biz at its 32nd annual real estate awards. Retail Agents of the Year: David Dochter and Matt Alexander…
State of the DC Retail Market: Georgia Ave Ascendant, Creative Spaces
Petworth and Georgia Ave are ascendant, and unconventional uses for retail spaces are becoming more common, according to the panelists at a Thursday morning event…
H&M to Take Over Former Filene’s Space on Connecticut Avenue
The last space previously occupied by a Filene’s Basement in the District has been filled: Fashion retailer H&M will take over the 28,000-square-foot store at 1133 Connecticut Ave. NW. I’d been hearing H&M….
Cushman & Wakefield Announces New Headquarters Lease for Ellin & Tucker, Major Updates to 400 E. Pratt
Cushman & Wakefield announced today that Ellin & Tucker, a leading CPA firm specializing in accounting, auditing and tax services, will relocate its Baltimore headquarters office from 25,418 square feet in 100 South Charles Street to 400 East Pratt Street…
How Popularise Brought Crowdsourcing to DC’s Commercial Real Estate Market
The tycoon Herbert S. Miller developed his real estate the old-fashioned way: He built it. (Think Gallery Place, Georgetown Park and Washington Harbour.) His sons, Ben and Dan Miller, have taken a decidedly modern approach to the family business…
Dealmaker: David Dochter, Senior Director of Retail Services at Cushman & Wakefield Inc.
A conversation on a long ski lift in Park City, Utah, is what got Dochter, 32, interested in commercial real estate. But the door-to-door salesman learned quickly how hard it is to break into the business. He was initially rejected by Cushman & Wakefield in New York