It’s no secret that retail real estate took a hit during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Businesses shut down or went fully online, leaving many retail real estate investors with losses and no easy way to find new tenants. However, not all is gloom and doom for the retail real estate industry.
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring lockdowns resulted in a whopping 15,500 stores closing in 2020 alone, and many predicted that brick and mortar businesses, in general, would not recover from the loss. Indeed, many stores have shut down for good, never to return. At the same time, as other experts note, the massive closures have actually helped the market bounce back faster than it may have otherwise. However, it looks like the r
