Left for dead, retail booming in Southwest Florida

Retail sector remains strong in Southwest Florida where it makes up majority of $2.1B in CRE sales volume.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:40 a.m. March 19, 2022
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Justin Thibaut speaks about commercial real estate at the Market Trends of Southwest Florida Conference at the Caloosa Sound Convention Center in Fort Myers. (Photo courtesy of Michael Caronchi)
Justin Thibaut speaks about commercial real estate at the Market Trends of Southwest Florida Conference at the Caloosa Sound Convention Center in Fort Myers. (Photo courtesy of Michael Caronchi)
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The runaway leader in sales activity in Southwest Florida’s commercial real estate market is an industry whose death has been shouted from the mountaintops for more than a decade: retail.

Yes, brick-and-mortar retail. The dinosaur left to the dustbin of history as e-commerce takes over, Amazon overtaking Sears, Etsy surpassing K-Mart.

 

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