International Retail: For over 15 years, LSCA has been conducting international feasibility, repositioning and programming consultation for residential/hotel/retail mixed-use projects; Town Centers; entertainment/retail/lifestyle centers; integrated resort shopping centers; and tourist-oriented specialty centers. In 2010-2011, we were retained for assignments in India; Malaysia; Singapore; Macau; and Europe. Other past international assignments have taken us to widely diverse locations, with clients desiring our specialized expertise on challenging, complex and specialized shopping center products.
Mixed-Use: Cities and planned communities frequently seek ways of distinguishing their new developments. Mixed-use retail products are often proposed as part of higher density, suburban in-fill developments and master-planned communities. LSCA has worked with land owners, cities and designers to create successful, synergistic combinations of shopping with commercial and housing components for Town Centers, Mixed-Use Districts (including transit projects), and market-rate and affordable housing projects. Our consulting has creatively mixed adjacent, pedestrian-friendly uses, resulting in economically viable, energized options for communities. LSCA also has in-depth experience with traditional, mixed-use office/hotel/retail and convention center sites in major urban cores, including San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago, London and Los Angeles.
Master-Planned Community Commercial Strategies: LSCA is one of the nation’s most experienced master-planned community consultants, providing commercial programming and sizing to meet long-range housing forecasts and regional demands. Over a period of 10 years, LSCA provided shopping center consultation for the build-out of the 15,000-home Weston community (Florida). Other notable master-planned community assignments include Viera (Florida); Summerlin (Nevada); Irvine, Valencia and Playa Vista (California); and State of Utah Trust Lands (Washington, Utah). Our international work includes strategic sizing and programming for the prominent, upscale community of DesaPark City, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Resort/Visitor Retail: LSCA is recognized as a leading international tourist and integrated resort retail consulting firm. Many of our visitor-oriented projects represent some of the most prominent and successful tourist and integrated resort projects in the world. We have developed an in-house proprietary visitor model for projecting future overnight and same-day visitors that flows into our demand models for predicting specialty center and integrated resort mall sales. Since 1984, we have worked on both existing and proposed tourist-oriented shopping centers, and have been able to confirm retroactively our success at projecting sales and rents. Frequently, LSCA has been retained to formulate detailed food & beverage and retail tenant mix programs, working with in-house executive leasing teams. Our visitor-oriented shopping center consulting strength has led to assignments for theme parks, luxury oceanfront and gaming integrated resorts, convention center and casino hotels, and island resort destinations.
Main Street/Pedestrian/Specialty & “Lifestyle” Centers: Many of our projects have been located in notable, on-street shopping districts, including Old Town Pasadena; the Gaslamp District; Union Square, San Francisco; Third Street Promenade; Universal CityWalk; Las Vegas Strip; and Broadway Street, Downtown Los Angeles. LSCA has worked on leading edge, pedestrian-oriented, new construction regional malls and community “lifestyle” centers.
Redevelopment/Repositioning: LSCA has served as a public and private sector, redevelopment feasibility and strategic implementation consultant since the company’s inception. Projects have included on-street shopping districts; convention centers; waterfront projects; specialty centers; regional malls; and numerous grocery store and big box projects.
New Urbanism: LSCA served as retail consultant to Seaside, Florida, the nation’s premier New Urbanist Community and a recipient of ULI’s Award for Excellence, and to Alys Beach, Florida, another New Urbanist inspired, village-like, resort-oriented community, within a few miles of Seaside. Our clients appreciate our expertise, which combines real-world New Urbanist experience with practical financial goals.
Retailer Portfolio Analysis & Expansion Strategies/Site Research: LSCA provides individual and multiple site, real estate research, sizing and sales projections for retailers. Purchasers of retail and restaurant companies have used our expertise for portfolio due diligence acquisition analysis, including detailed reviews of individual store sites and sales performance. Over a period of seven years, we evaluated leases and land acquisition proposals, and provided individual store sales projections for an expanding national restaurant company. Our long history with grocery store real estate research and sales projections has resulted in numerous portfolio supermarket chain assignments, as well as “trouble-shooting” of problem stores for top executives.
