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Retail brands that sell comfort-oriented home products, whether it be office furniture, bedding, chairs or couches, are in a great position for retail expansion in the future. More Americans, especially millennials with young families, are accepting the fact that the working-from-home trend appears to be here to stay, leading to demand for these home products. More

Scenthound Preferred Sq. Footage: 1,000-2,000 s.f. Anticipated 12-Month Openings: 10-40+ The Florida-based pet grooming company is poised for rapid growth. Scenthound recently opened its fifth location in Boca Raton, Fla., and has an additional 27 units under development throughout Florida, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina. The company expects to have 40 franchises sold by the More

The clean beauty and skin care trend continues to grow as consumers become increasingly determined to utilize all-natural, wholesome ingredients when it comes to their personal care. The coronavirus worries have put health in the forefront of most Americans. A preference for transparency with skin and hair care ingredients has also had an effect on More

Dough Pizza signed a modified gross 10-year lease for a ground-floor unit of a mixed-use residential tower building at 101 Ludlow Street that houses the School of Visual Arts (SVA) dormitory students. The new pizza chain, which opened its first unit last November in Syosset, N.Y., was competing with another food-related brand for the retail More

With today’s consumer, the key buzzword seems to be “local,” whether it is “buy local,” “support your local vendors” or “help support local small businesses.” Keep an eye out for new national retail chain themes and concepts popping up that feature both local regional brands, as well as lesser-known, yet still buzzworthy, digitally native/direct-to-consumer (DTC) More

The smoothie and juice industry has been booming with growth during the pandemic and continues to have a strong national expansion forecast. With stress levels at an all-time high due to factors such as the fluctuating economy, political strife and COVID-19 concerns, Americans are gravitating to health-boosting solutions that are good for their immune systems. More

Crumbl Cookies Preferred Sq. Footage: 1,000-3,000 s.f. Anticipated Openings: 75-100 through 2022 The cookie chain is in aggressive expansion mode and hopes to add new units in Kansas, California, Maryland, Michigan, South Carolina, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Georgia, Washington, Ohio and Virginia. The retailer also looks to open its first location in New Mexico. Downtown, street More

This lease took over two years and required a lot of moving parts including multiple location changes, use restrictions, termination agreements, septic capacity and combining multiple spaces. The corporate Planet Fitness store will take over three spaces formally occupied by Gap, Justice and New York & Co. Planet Fitness was attracted to the center’s position More