Most retail site decisions in Ohio get made on a broker’s instinct and a landlord’s pitch deck. We make them on a sales forecast. CRE360 pairs the same gravity-model forecasting grocers run internally with on-the-ground transaction execution, so an Ohio expansion plan is validated before the first LOI goes out — not second-guessed after the store opens soft. That pairing of in-house research and tenant-side execution is rare; most brokerages have one or the other, and few have done the statewide work to know Ohio’s markets cold.
Whether you’re a national chain entering Ohio for the first time, a regional brand densifying in Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, or a franchisor awarding territories faster than stores can open, the work breaks into four connected services. Each feeds the next: research validates the market, transactions secure the site, and the forecast travels with the deal.
Before you commit capital to an Ohio market, we model what a store will actually do there. Field-verified casing, trade-area analysis, competitive mapping, and a gravity-model sales forecast — the same methodology grocers use internally — tell you which sites will perform and which only look good on paper.
We source, qualify, and close sites across Ohio as your tenant-side broker. Backed by in-house research, the transaction team moves fast in competitive markets — the model that delivered 13 LOIs in nine months for a national sporting-goods retailer and placed us at the top of their national broker network.
For owners with multiple Ohio assets, we run portfolio-wide reviews that identify which centers are leasing-ready, which need repositioning, and which are quietly losing share to newer product nearby. For grocery and grocery-anchored concepts, we forecast viability site by site — accounting for cannibalization across existing stores, trade-area capture, and planned development. The result is a defensible projection a grocer’s real estate committee will take seriously, not a traffic estimate dressed up as sales.This is the same scope of work we delivered for First National Realty Partners across a 60+ center grocery-anchored portfolio — applied at whatever scale fits your holdings.
Franchisors awarding Ohio territories faster than stores open have a real estate bottleneck, not a sales problem. We give multi-unit and emerging-franchise systems a repeatable site-scoring and rollout framework — the approach behind 20 sites in seven months for a fast-scaling experiential franchise.
We’ve already done the work here. Recent statewide rollouts mean we know Ohio’s metros, submarkets, and the brokers and landlords who control them — so you’re not paying us to learn the market on your dime. And because research and transactions sit under one roof, the intelligence that wins the site is the same intelligence that closes it.
We support a range of Ohio landlord engagements. Single-asset owners with a center that needs a tenant. Regional portfolios looking for an independent read on which centers are leasing-ready. Institutional owners using us as a research arm to validate internal leasing assumptions. Developers evaluating a new ground-up site against the existing competitive set.
Our research practice and transaction practice work together. If you need trade area research to support an existing leasing strategy, that's where we start. If you also need help executing on tenant outreach and lease negotiation, our transaction team handles that side — and the research informs every conversation. You can read more about our research methodology or how we approach transactions.
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Sam is the Managing Director for CRE 360 Partners. He manages both the research and transaction business within CRE 360 Partners. Sam is instrumental in both tenant and landlord relationships throughout the country. Sam has 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’s deep experience and wide array of national relationships, combined with his ability to effectively drive compelling deals have enabled him to propel leasing volume and cultivate an increasing mix of national and regional retailers within the portfolio. Collier received BS degrees in both Finance/Economics and Accounting from Lipscomb University, and he now resides with his wife in Nashville, TN. He is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and holds a CPA certification.
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