ShoppingCenters.com by the Numbers

As of August 1, 2024

The most featured center in our directory are Community Centers, which can be as large as 500,000 square feet. The second most featured center are Power Centers, which are usually open-air in design and with 3 or more big-boxes. The third most featured center are Lifestyle / Specialty Centers / Mixed-Use, which have evolved to provide a variety to the tenant mix, with restaurants, theaters,  retailtainment venues, fitness and others melding residential, hospitality, commercial and medical .

The Directory of Major Malls / ShoppingCenters.com major shopping center and mall dataset includes over 9,100 listings of major US & Canadian shopping centers and malls of approx. 175,000+ sq. ft. and above in size as well as centers DMM has classified as lifestyle/specialty and mixed-use centers which may be < 200k but include significant retail space and illustrate the changing landscape of conventional retail shopping center locations.

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Tenant locations associated with the property number at  331,985 tenants broken down into 16 categories.

Retail Chain Types are assigned to the individual stores providing a Cross-Reference Retail Tenant Mix & Assess Saturation of Chains.

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Anchor tenants are identified and include square footage figures. Vacant and closed anchor tenants are identified and useful for pinpointing properties which might be ripe for redevelopment, or already transforming to new retail configurations. This may also be a key component for valuation and assessment.