Retail Loss and Commercial Real Estate
Retail loss, also known as shoplifting or theft, has continued to make headlines month after month since mid-2020. Recently, Target announced that retail loss is forcing them to close 9 stores in Northern California, Portland, New York, Seattle and Pittsburgh. This...
September 2023 Round-up
At the end of each month, the AGS team looks back at articles and blog posts that we saw this month that stood out to us. Some are from news agencies, and many come from our partners, but not all use our data. Here is the round-up from September 2023. Census The...
How will Increased Multi-Family Developments Impact Commercial Real Estate?
The housing market supply seems to always be behind demand, and with rising interest rates, multi-family housing units are a good solution for many individuals and families. How do these units impact commercial real estate and potential site selection? Of course,...
Multi-Family Housing Developments in Suburban America
It has been well documented that major metropolitan areas are prioritizing multi-family housing, and in some cities, empty office buildings are being converted into multi-family housing units. This upswing in apartment complexes, townhomes and condos can be attributed...
Transitioning to the 2020 Census
Starting a few years before the 2020 census, the bureau began discussing methodologies for improving ‘disclosure avoidance’. To be honest, we were highly skeptical of how this would play out, especially since the published methodology discussions were obtuse, reading...
Rethinking Poverty and Income Inequality
In recent years, we have been consistently told that income inequality is on the rise and that the war on poverty declared in the 1960’s has been a failure. The Economist magazine stated bluntly that “it is a truth universally acknowledged that inequality in the rich...
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