John Cumbelich & Associates
From Site to Insight: The Transformative Power of Real Estate Tours
By John Cumbelich Over decades in the CRE industry, our team has completed hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of multi-market site tours with grocers,...
Opinion: The Consumer Has Cash
By John Cumbelich The U.S. unemployment rate is now experiencing its 8th consecutive quarter below 4 percent, with national unemployment clocking in at...
Opinion: Recession or Re-Set?
By John Cumbelich Recently the Wall Street Journal published an article observing that if the US economy is in a recession, “it’s a very...
Retail’s New COVID Rules
By John Cumbelich The Ides of March was celebrated in ancient Rome on March 15th each year, as the deadline for settling debts. As the commercial real...
Cars Are the New Customer
By John Cumbelich Our firm just consummated our first-ever ground lease transaction with a restaurant brand that will build a triple-lane drive thru....
Essential Truths of Retail
By John Cumbelich Among the many radical and fundamental changes wrought in retail through the COVID crisis, perhaps none has been more widely...
My Corona: A Retail Adaptation
By John Cumbelich The past year was a trial by combat in the scorched earth environment of the commercial real estate industry. The...
The Crisis-Proof Shopping Center
By John Cumbelich While an anxious national media reports on the retail apocalypse, spiking vacancy rates and big-name bankruptcies, perhaps it’s time for...
Repurpose, Rezone or Replace
By John Cumbelich The overbuilt US market for retail space was one crisis away from a major correction. That correction is now upon us....
Retail Double Whammy
By John Cumbelich The suburban shopping center business is not in crisis. But the simultaneous presence of two unsettling dynamics in the industry...
Online Dating
By John Cumbelich The real estate industry’s version of online dating can be found in places with names like LoopNet, Crexi, Commercial Search,...
