Overview
The Preeminent Firm in Retail Real Estate Advisory Services
When it comes to retail real estate, no one offers or does more than RCS Real Estate Advisors. Since our founding in 1981, we’ve built a reputation for delivering innovative solutions that unlock the potential of retail real estate assets for our clients throughout the United States and Canada. Whether we’re building solid footprints in the retail marketplace, overcoming challenges with existing real estate portfolios, or acting as an outsourced real estate department, retailers trust us to deliver results that maximize the financial potential of their retail real estate.
RCS is a team of proven real estate experts with extensive senior executive-level experience in the retail industry. We employ our keen negotiating skills, strong landlord relationships, exceptional retail real estate expertise, and sharp insights to formulate successful real estate strategies – and effectively bring those strategies and solutions to fruition.
Our services include portfolio assessments, expansions, lease renewals, rent renegotiations, dispositions, terminations, and equity investments. We specialize in reducing occupancy costs, restructuring leases, and expanding footprints. RCS also goes beyond the initial transaction to provide continuous management of your portfolio, ensuring your real estate performs at its optimal level.
Executive Team
“RCS was an integral part of our operational turnaround.”
– Theo Killion, CEO, Zale Corporation
RCS Clients and Testimonials
“We selected RCS as we knew their long-standing senior level landlord relationships and their ability to partner effectively with our internal real estate team were the right combination for success. We are very pleased with how right we were. RCS exceeded our expectations by delivering significant occupancy costs savings and achieving cost-effective terminations for Aeropostale. We greatly appreciate RCS helping us achieve our long-term goals.”
– Eric Stevenson, Vice President of Real Estate, Aéropostale
“We greatly appreciate all of the efforts of RCS Real Estate Advisors to help us close down the retail stores of Juicy Couture (when we were still known as Fifth & Pacific Companies, Inc.). RCS was diligent in its efforts to obtain cost-effective terminations to these leases in as timely a manner as possible. We greatly appreciate the work and partnership of RCS.”
– Philip Rosenzweig, VP of Real Estate, Store Design & Construction, Kate Spade & Company
“Without RCS Real Estate Advisors, the optimization of our retail footprint would have had very different results. RCS was an excellent partner in assisting us develop our real estate strategy and, very importantly, in executing this strategy in a timely and cost effective manner.”
– Rick Cote, President and COO, Movado Group, Inc.
“As our outsourced real estate arm, RCS Real Estate Advisors has done a phenomenal job of positioning our business. In addition to being experts at lease renewals, renegotiations and terminations, they have also done a great job of identifying the best sites for our growth plan so we are well positioned for continued success.”
– Michael Katz, President and CEO, Perfumania Holdings Inc.
“RCS was an integral part of our operational turnaround. They are outstanding professionals and I would recommend them to other retailers who need to modify their store portfolio or adjust occupancy costs.”
– Theo Killion, CEO, Zale Corporation