DC Retail Real Estate Summit

Holland & Knight is a sponsor of this year's Bisnow's DC Retail Real Estate Summit. Real Estate Partner Janis Schiff will serve as moderator.

Speakers will discuss how, despite the recession, Washington, D.C., is surging with urban street retail housing, trendy boutiques, fusion restaurants and clubs - all counting on the traffic of new walkable, urban centers - and new big box retailers are capitalizing on the downfall of their predecessors to pick up multiple locations in a new market. Topics will include:

• how the increase in online sales has impacted the retail landscape
• the most significant changes in landlord/tenant concessions now and in the future
• how developers changed their marketing plans and expectations on returns
• where rental rates are
• where the opportunities are
• what is to be expected for the rest of 2011 and 2012