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The New Face of Specialty Leasing: How Flexible Retail Is Rewriting the Playbook

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Specialty leasing has transformed from a stopgap solution into a core strategic driver for retail properties, fueled by shifts in consumer behavior, brand experimentation, and the rise of experiential activations. Today’s flexible retail model emphasizes proactive planning, digital lead generation, integrated leasing teams, and technology-enabled operations.

Retailers use short-term spaces to test markets and concepts, while owners leverage pop-ups, touring exhibits, and community-focused experiences to generate foot traffic and diversify revenue. As the discipline matures, specialty leasing is becoming a sophisticated, data-informed engine shaping the future of shopping centers.

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CAM Essentials for Landlords: A Clear Path to Better Shopping Center Performance

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Shopping center landlords face unique challenges managing Common Area Maintenance (CAM) charges and reconciliations. This comprehensive guide explores proven strategies for streamlining CAM processes, reducing tenant disputes, and maintaining transparent communication that strengthens landlord-tenant relationships while optimizing property performance.

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Release Notes : January 2026 DMM shopping center and tenant data

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The January 2026 dataset from Directory of Major Malls / ShoppingCenters.com provides extensive coverage of shopping center landlords, REITs, and management companies across the U.S. and Canada. Comprehensive property details, complete tenant/store lists, Anchor store metrics, demographics, trade area demographics, cross-shopping and more.

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Release Notes : May 2025 DMM shopping center and tenant data

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Discover the North American retail shopping center landscape like never before! Welcome to the May 2025 release notes for the Directory of Major Malls / ShoppingCenters.com dataset, which features a wide range of shopping center classifications across the U.S. and Canada.

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DMM feature service tiers available on Esri Marketplace

DMM Data on the Esri ArcGIS geospatial platform

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The Directory of Major Malls (DMM) has partnered with Esri to deliver access to 364,000 tenants with over 106,000 retail brands across 17,000+ US and Canadian shopping centers as a feature service on the Esri ArcGIS platform.

This integration includes sophisticated trade area analytics derived from mobile device activity, providing detailed consumer profile demographics, segmentation, and cross-shopping metrics at the zip+4 and census block group levels.

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Precision with Privacy (PwP) from BI Spatial

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PwP Defined: Precision with Privacy is a monthly, spatially anonymized dataset containing the most representative residential points of mobile devices in the United States which can be coupled with various […]

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Shopping Center Geofences available from Directory of Major Malls / ShoppingCenters.com

DMM Retail Shopping Center and Mall Geofences: Elevating Retail Analytics with Precision

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Directory of Major Malls offers delineated Shopping Center Geofences (polygons) for almost 20k major shopping centers and malls in the United States and Canada. These proprietary polygons, created through a strategic alliance with B I Spatial.

DMM geofences are very robust and flexible. The polygons can be combined seamlessly with the DMM full dataset as well as mobile and segmentation data and they can be visualized in any Geospatial Platform chosen. This union allows real estate teams, retail brands and business analysts to derive additional insights on customers and the DMM shopping center.

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Sampling of NAICs code mapping to DMM stores

NAICs code and Store Chain types integrated into the DMM tenant data

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DMM’s integration of NAICS codes & Retail Store Chain Types is a critical growth step and opportunity for Direct Licensees and Resellers to append larger datasets that are driven by retail category classifications. It ensures that statistical reporting and analyses are uniform across geographies when utilizing additional analytic components.

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