National Advisory Group

DA's National Advisory Group is an entrepreneurial retail real estate team whose mission is to grow future category leaders and innovators. Leveraging experiences from working in-house at top luxury and lifestyle brands, we partner with best in class, growth stage retailers to develop and execute comprehensive, analytic and customer driven nationwide real estate growth strategies based on proven success factors. We are passionate about working with engaging brands that are headed by top-flight teams and value collaboration, integrity and imagination

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Strategic Real Estate Planning

Responsible for the development and execution strategies for market assessment and site selection process, utilizing analytical frameworks, state-of-the art software and on the ground insights.

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Pipeline Ownership

Accountable for the generation of target lists with active market analysis, conducting market tours, managing external relationships to secure new sites and driving a deal pipeline that achieves companies’ market level growth goals.

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Broker Management

Responsible for the establishment and oversight of a high quality, productive and brand aligned broker network for the purposes of driving an efficient, high quality real estate pipeline nationally.

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Deal Making

Accountable for managing retailers’ network and relationships, site selection and negotiation of LOI terms and leases. We manage internal review and real estate committee approval process and oversee lease execution and management.

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Process Innovation

Responsible for the organization, modification and creation of new working real estate operating processes, procedures and programs to ensure companies will be outsourcing all traditional functions of an internal real estate department in a cost-efficient manner.

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Market Expert

Accountable for keeping current on market conditions in major US metropolitan markets to include knowledge of all competitive changes in market area and understanding the primary differences between the competitors within the market.

What Makes Us Different

Build Your Brand, Capture Mindshare and Establish a National Presence

By leveraging experiences from working in-house at top luxury and lifestyle brands, we partner with best-in-class growth stage retailers to develop and execute comprehensive, analytic and customer-driven nationwide real estate growth strategies based on proven success factors. We are passionate about working with engaging brands that are headed by top-flight teams and value collaboration, integrity and imagination.

Select Work

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream

Ben and Pete Van Leeuwen and Laura O’Neill started Van Leeuwen Ice Cream out of a yellow truck on the streets of NYC in 2008, with the mission to make good ice cream, from good ingredients, that makes you feel good.

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Compass Coffee

Compass Coffee is an American coffee roaster based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 2014 and operates in Washington, D.C. and Virginia.

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MADabolic

As the industry's first and only strength-driven interval training franchise, MADabolic prioritizes personal improvement through constructive adjustments that provoke long-term, sustainable results.

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In-House Experience

Before starting the National Advisory Group, Jason Kastner worked in-house at several well known brands.

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