November 2025 release notes
🛍️ 17,399 shopping centers & 364,924 tenant locations
Explore the North American retail shopping center landscape with the extensive Directory of Major Malls / ShoppingCenters.com dataset which covers the plethora of shopping center classifications in the U.S. and Canada
A WHOLE LOT of Shopping Center Retail Data — Because Every Detail Counts
Overview
As of November 2025, the DMM ShoppingCenters.com database offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource for U.S. and Canadian retail property intelligence, with 17,399 shopping centers totaling approximately 4.356 billion square feet of gross leasable area.
This release delivers expanded and refined data on center types, geographic distribution, ownership, and detailed tenant listings — including anchor store vacancy metrics that illuminate critical performance trends.
By enhancing data accuracy and breadth, the platform empowers retail professionals, investors, marketers, and analysts to make well-informed decisions, evaluate market opportunities, and track tenant and center health across all regions.
Whether assessing growth markets like the South East and West or monitoring higher-vacancy regions such as the North East and North Central, users gain actionable insights that strengthen strategic planning and drive competitive advantage.
Key Metrics
- 4.36 Billion sqft of Retail GLA
- 17,399 Shopping Centers classified into 7 categories
- 16,565 U.S. sh ctrs
- 834 Canadian sh ctrs
- Open Air vs Enclosed (in design):
- 15,671 open-air (totaling 3.2B sqft)
- 1,728 enclosed (totaling 1.1 sqft)
Tenant and Retail Brand data
DMM Tenant data now covers over 364,924 individual tenants across all listed shopping centers, with detailed store-level information including brand name, and category, Chain Store Type and NAICs code.
Leading Retail categories: #1 at 23% is Food & Restaurants
- Food & Restaurants (83,851 locations, 23%)
- Specialty Stores (42,283)
- Services (52,845),
- Unisex/Family Clothing (20,148)
Portfolio Coverage
The November 2025 dataset provides extensive coverage of shopping center landlords, REITs, and management companies across the U.S. and Canada, detailing both property counts and gross leasable area (GLA) managed.
Major players such as Kimco Realty Corporation, Brixmor Property Group, Kite Realty Group, and Simon Property Group collectively oversee hundreds of centers, with leaders like Kimco holding 521 properties and Simon commanding over 157 million square feet of GLA (based on the DMM dataset of centers).
This ownership intelligence highlights portfolio scale, regional influence, and market positioning, offering valuable benchmarks for investors, developers, and retail strategists assessing competitive dynamics in the retail real estate sector.
Key Benefits:
Using the Directory of Major Malls (DMM) shopping center and tenant data can provide a variety of benefits for different stakeholders, including retailers, real estate developers, investors, and market researchers.
Access pre-analyzed trade area demographics, segmentation, visitor activity metrics without the hassle or expense of licensing 3rd party data and supporting additional technology.
Advantages of DMM data:
- Market Intelligence: Deep insights into consumer behavior, retail performance, tenant mix, and geographic distribution for informed site selection .
- Strategic Analysis: Identifies prime locations, high-traffic areas, and competitive landscapes for retailers and developers .
- Investment Support: Enables evaluation of shopping center viability, tenant composition, and performance metrics for better fund allocation decisions .
- Research & Benchmarking: Valuable for market studies, academic research, and performance comparison against competitors .
- Marketing Optimization: Provides demographic insights and competitor analysis for tailored marketing strategies and personalized promotions .
- Future Planning: Highlights development opportunities and helps assess expansion risks based on retail trends .
DMM’s robust dataset gives stakeholders a competitive edge through reliable insights that drive growth, optimize performance, and unlock opportunities in the dynamic retail landscape .
License the DMM Data
DMM/ShoppingCenters.com data and analysis is available via access online access, custom direct data licensing, geospatial platform resellers and Esri ArcGIS platform
Visit the Custom Data page on ShoppingCenters.com to review the updated data schema to leverage new attributes fully. Reach out to the data team at Directory of Major Malls with questions and to request a demo and sample data
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