Ohio Retail Real Estate
We work with retailers, landlords, and municipalities throughout Ohio — from Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati to the secondary corridors where the next round of retail growth is already underway. Our team pairs research-grade trade area analysis with the transaction depth to execute on what the research surfaces. Both, statewide, under one roof.
Site sourcing, market validation, and lease execution for retailers and franchise systems opening stores across Ohio. Tenant rep work at the cadence growth-stage retail actually needs.
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Trade area research, tenant attraction strategy, and lease execution for shopping center owners with Ohio assets. From single-asset repositioning to portfolio-wide leasing reviews.
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Retail recruitment research that gets your Ohio community to the top of the stack in front of national retailers. Trade area work, sales forecasts, and corridor strategy that move recruitment efforts from cold pitch to qualified opportunity.
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Trade area research, sales forecasting via gravity model, market validation, feasibility studies, and portfolio reviews. The methodology national grocers and retailers use internally, delivered as a research product.
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Tenant representation, landlord representation, site sourcing, and lease negotiation. Execution work for retailers, franchise systems, and shopping center owners across Ohio.
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Grocery feasibility and sales forecasting, and franchise expansion execution. Two practice areas where the methodology gets specific and the proof points run deep.
Ohio is a state of distinct retail submarkets, not a single market. A grocery-anchored center in Hilliard performs on different fundamentals than one in Mentor or Mason. A franchise rollout in the Cleveland-Akron-Canton corridor faces different unit economics than one in the Cincinnati-Dayton corridor. Generic national playbooks miss those differences. We work statewide because the work demands it. Our team pairs research and transactions under one engagement, which matters more in Ohio than in most states. The retailers and municipalities winning here right now are not relying on demographic screens or stock broker pitches — they are working from field-verified competitive data, methodology-aligned sales forecasts, and the on-the-ground knowledge that only comes from physically working the market. That is what we bring. Our Ohio work spans national retailer rollouts, grocery-anchored center repositionings, franchise system expansions, and municipal retail recruitment efforts. Different audiences, different deliverables, same research-and-execution foundation.
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Sourced 13 retail deals in 9 months in a single state for a national retailer, becoming the top-producing partner in their U.S. network.
Delivered 20 sites in 7 months for one of the fastest-growing pickleball franchise rollouts in the country, including multiple Midwest markets.
Sales forecasts built on field-verified competitive data, with historical accuracy within roughly 5 percent of actual store performance — the standard the grocery industry operates to.
Sam is the Managing Director for CRE360 Partners and manages both the research and transaction business across the firm. He brings more than 20 years of experience in value creation of retail commercial real estate assets, including more than a decade of management and strategic leasing of major projects in portfolios owned by publicly traded REITs in the mall sector. Sam holds BS degrees in Finance/Economics and Accounting from Lipscomb University, is a CPA, and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.
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