Store closures reached a record-high nationally in 2019, and the Philadelphia commercial real estate market was not spared from the fallout.
Sears and Kmart alone shuttered eight stores in the Philly retail space market, resulting in 1 million square feet of new retail vacancy. Market-wide net absorption, the difference between move-ins and move-outs, ended the year slightly in the red.
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The latest Philadelphia retail market video update from Adrian Ponsen at CoStar Analytics examines these trends in more detail to help investors understand the challenging and fast changing retail market they face in 2020. Please click here to view the video.
Market trends in the Philly retail space market, however, would have been far worse if not for the range of tenants that faced less pressure from Amazon and continued to expand.
More than 12 new grocery store locations opened in the Philadelphia area last year, along with several new fitness centers. In addition, discount clothing retailers, such as Burlington, Marshalls, TJ Maxx and Old Navy, also continue to grow their store counts in the Philly retail space market. Despite competition from online clothing sellers, many budget-conscious shoppers still find that it’s simply quicker and more cost effective to visit brick-and-mortar locations and try clothes on, rather than ordering online and risk having to make returns.
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