Where We Buy: Retail Real Estate with James Cook

Online retailers are opening at least 850 bricks-and-mortar stores within the next five years. James Cook talks with Taylor Coyne about the details of a new study that tracks this expansion.  They visit a Parachute Home store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, the bath and bedding digital retailer's fourth physical location. They also explore other retail sights and sounds in Silver Lake and neighboring Echo Park.

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James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Taylor Coyne is a research manager for JLL.

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

Lauren Thomas covers the retail beat at CNBC.  James Cook catches up with Lauren about recent stories she's written, which seem to bode well for the holiday sales season. 

Articles discussed:

• Retailers could ring up more than $1.1 trillion in holiday sales, topping last year
• Black Friday is projected to be the busiest shopping day of the year, despite 'Christmas creep'
• Macy's teams with Facebook to bring new brands to pop-up shops for the holidays
• Big winners after Toys R Us' death are still Walmart and Target, but also Costco
• Walmart will have 30% more toys in stores this holiday season, in a bid to win sales Toys R Us left behind
• Target to hire 20% more workers this holiday season, doubling the number of jobs dedicated to online orders
• Macy's to hire 80,000 holiday workers, on pace with last year, as retailer sees 'strong and successful' season

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James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

James Cook visits The Short North district in Columbus, Ohio to see how traditional suburban mall retailers can flourish in urban settings. Diane Rambo, the creative director at experience design firm Big Red Rooster shows the marketing techniques that Anthropologie and Warby Parker use to draw in passersby.  

Josh Broehl and Vicki Eickelberger dig into design details, drawing on their experiences helping national retailers adapt mall stores to main streets.

Thanks to Stefanie Mowery for helping to produce this episode.

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James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

James Cook talks with Stephen Jay and Ashley Rowland at Big Red Rooster, a JLL company. Big Red Rooster is a brand experience firm. 

They discuss some of the findings of their Beyond Buying report, a study which defines the six dimensions of retail experience and then surveys 2,000 consumers to find out how 20 top retailers stack up.

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James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

Subscriptions for goods and services have been around for a long time, but it seems like a million more have cropped up recently. Do any of them have the power to disrupt the retail status quo? James Cook digs into this question with Rachel Elias Wein, founder of Wein Plus. 

Read Rachel's blog post that inspired this episode.

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James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license. Additional music in this episode: A List of Ways to Die by Lee Rosevere under Creative Commons license.

Johnathan Ledesma, a partner with developer Project^, talks through the ups and downs of two adaptive reuse projects in Portland's West End district. Blackbox is an historic brick building, now transformed to hold unique retail and creative office space. Union Way is a sunny shopping alley connecting two popular streets through two former night clubs.

Special thanks to Patricia Raicht for organizing the West End retail tour and Tim Harrison and Karen Busteed for lending their local knowledge.

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James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

Portland, Oregon's West End district is a place where hip boutiques, national chains, historic buildings, food carts and local restaurants all vie for one's attention. James Cook joins Patricia Raicht, Tim Harrison and Karen Busteed for a tour of this developing district.

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Read more retail research here.

James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

Coworking tenants in office spaces are big and growing bigger. Are coworking operations a good fit for retail buildings and shopping centers? Would you work at the mall?

James Cook talks with:

• Stephanie Lee & Ellen Shakespear of Spaceus, a creative coworking space in Boston.
• Scott Homa, the director of U.S. office research for JLL
• Keisha Virtue, senior retail research analyst for JLL

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James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

This podcast uses a sound from freesound: sound inside school.wav by PaSoul. Audio of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is a 1935 recording from the Library of Congress.

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

James Cook reveals the results of a new back-to-school survey of 1,000 parents.  

Elizabeth Faulkner, who is both a Boston area parent and a retail property marketing expert, talks about her own back-to-school shopping habits and how shopping centers have changed how they approach this valuable shopping season. 

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Leave a message on the Where We Buy hotline. We may use it on an upcoming show. Call (602)633-4061 

Read more retail research here.

James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

How did the concept of branding retail goods first get started? When did people start using credit cards? When did shopping become an experience?

Join James and Taylor as they visit Kathleen Franz at the National Museum of American History. JLL chief economist Ryan Severino is there as well. He explains how credit has become a force in our modern economy. 

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James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. 

Taylor Coyne is a research manager for JLL.

Tweet: @JamesDCook Email: [email protected]  Insta: @jamcoo

Leave a message on the Where We Buy hotline. We may use it on an upcoming show. Call (602) 633-4061 

Read more retail research here.

Theme music is Run in the Night by The Good Lawdz, under Creative Commons license.

Additional music:

Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin from a public domain piano roll recording. Albinoni's Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Major Op9 no3, 3 Allegro by Advent Chamber Orchestra under Creative Commons license.