NEW YORK – July 13, 2022 – Leading Retail Real Estate Consultant Opens Over 150,000 Square Feet of New Retail Locations and Highlights Major Accomplishments for Q1 and Q2 2022

RCS Real Estate Advisors (RCS), the preeminent retail real estate advisors where results are guaranteed, announced today its mid-year company achievements including new store openings with long-time […]

NEW YORK – July 5, 2022 – The retail consultant sees bad news on the horizon, even for retailers who seem to have the pandemic figured out

Retail is never not a cutthroat business.

In retail, one can go out of business just for being a step behind or a step ahead of a trend. Toss in a […]

NEW YORK – June 19, 2022 – Our interview guest is Edward Coury, managing director at RCS Real Estate Advisors discusses the various dynamics behind lease negotiations in the current climate, including considerations for insurance and maintenance payment, demands for percentage rent, and the process behind a retailer moving into or out of a market. In […]

NEW YORK – May 31, 2022 – From the doldrums of lockdown to the record-breaking economic recovery to rising concerns about war, inflation and recession, the pace of change since 2020 shows no sign of slowing. Commerce + Communities Today contributing editor Joel Groover spoke with RCS Real Estate Advisors Partner Spence Mehl about how it […]

NEW YORK – March 10, 2022 – Cheaper store rents also helped immunize the tony Manhattan enclave against the economic ill effects of COVID. A big rezoning now looms.

Ed Coury, a managing director at RCS Real Estate Advisors, remembers the SoHo of that first pandemic summer as decidedly less than idyllic.

“If you would have walked through […]

June 2019 – RCS Real Estate Advisors is being recognized by The M&A Advisor as a winner of the award for Cross Border Deal of the Year in the 11^th Annual International M&A Awards for the sale of Vitamin World Inc. to Feihe International.

The award recipients are chosen by a […]

National retailer Gap Inc. has retained New York-based RCS Real Estate Advisors to facilitate the restructuring of company’s specialty fleet. RCS Real Estate Advisors President and CEO Ivan L. Friedman made the announcement.

In their fourth quarter earnings report, Gap announced a plan to revamp their store base and revitalize the […]

April 17, 2019 – The New York-based retail consulting firm, RCS Real Estate Advisors, has bolstered their team of real estate professionals with the recent addition of new Managing Director Ed Coury. Coury brings over 30 years of real estate experience to the thriving […]

Excerpted from an article in Bloomberg, July 6, 2018, by Lauren Coleman-Lochner and Eliza Ronalds-Hannon

Mall Tenants Had an Out When Giants Like Macy’s Left. Now Landlords Bar the Door.

> Mall owners are pushing to eliminate co-tenancy provisions.
> Removing or limiting clauses gives merchants less flexibility.

“Landlords are now routinely pushing to chisel away co-tenancy provisions when leases […]