By Dan Jackson, M.B.A. ’12
An article in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal recently reported that Neiman Marcus, a high-end retailer in downtown Minneapolis would be closing its doors in July of 2013. This is not the first time that a high-end retailer has decided to close its doors or had to alter its image in downtown Minneapolis. The article stated that in 2004, Saks Fifth Avenue reconfigured its main store concept into Saks Off Fifth, a lower-priced version of the well-known retailer.
With the announcement of this closure, I got to thinking about the possibilities of a tenant that could fit into the space that has been held by Neiman Marcus for about 20 years. I reflected on a moment from my studies at St. Thomas. One particular UST real estate course (REAL 746), introduces students to the techniques used to determine the best and highest use of a site from a market analysis and feasibility perspective. It is a course that I took this past spring. While there were many techniques that we learned throughout the course of the semester, six factors immediately come to mind when trying to provide market analysis for a particular site. I’d like to walk you through each of these six factors and highlight important elements about the site that relate to each of these factors, but ultimately will leave it up to you to decide what kind of tenant(s) would be a good fit for a replacement. (more…)
Lindsey Buhrmann, the author of this post, will begin her classes in the Evening UST MBA tonight.
Downtown Mpls. Neiman Marcus closes its doors: What’s next?
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012By Dan Jackson, M.B.A. ’12
An article in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal recently reported that Neiman Marcus, a high-end retailer in downtown Minneapolis would be closing its doors in July of 2013. This is not the first time that a high-end retailer has decided to close its doors or had to alter its image in downtown Minneapolis. The article stated that in 2004, Saks Fifth Avenue reconfigured its main store concept into Saks Off Fifth, a lower-priced version of the well-known retailer.
With the announcement of this closure, I got to thinking about the possibilities of a tenant that could fit into the space that has been held by Neiman Marcus for about 20 years. I reflected on a moment from my studies at St. Thomas. One particular UST real estate course (REAL 746), introduces students to the techniques used to determine the best and highest use of a site from a market analysis and feasibility perspective. It is a course that I took this past spring. While there were many techniques that we learned throughout the course of the semester, six factors immediately come to mind when trying to provide market analysis for a particular site. I’d like to walk you through each of these six factors and highlight important elements about the site that relate to each of these factors, but ultimately will leave it up to you to decide what kind of tenant(s) would be a good fit for a replacement. (more…)
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