New Digital Trends in Retail Shopping Center Marketing with Tenant-Focuses Strategies
Traditionally, shopping center advertising on behalf of retail merchants has focused on expensive print or related media promoting the center overall, not individual tenants. Many shopping center owners have been slow to embrace the digital strategies employed by other industries and have rarely focused significant attention on advertising their centers’ tenants.
Capstone Repositions The Ivanhoe in La Jolla
Connect California – Carlsbad, CA-based Capstone Advisors completed a $1.5-million upgrade at The Ivanhoe, a nearly 35,000-square-foot, office property in La Jolla, CA. The repositioned Class A property is a unique contemporary design statement that’s better connected to the active urban La Jolla Village neighborhood…Read More
Capstone Signs 2 new leases for Island at Carlsbad
Capstone Advisors announced it signed two new leases at its 39,992-square-foot Island @ Carlsbad development at 5806-5814 Van Allen Way. Capstone Advisors, a real estate investment and development company, signed a 64-month lease with Juice Stop and a 120-month lease with Anytime Fitness.(Read More)
Autonomous Vehicles and Commercial Real Estate
Autonomous Vehicles and Commercial Real Estate
AVs are likely to impact the design of retail properties in the following ways: community and neighborhood retail centers anchored by grocery stores will most likely see the size of their parking lots shrink as more customers arrive in one AV, shop, and are driven away by another… Published in Cornell Real Estate Review, May 2016.
Getting to know Capstone Advisors’ Alex Zikakis
Alex Zikakis is president and founder of Capstone Advisors, where he oversees the company’s full range of residential and commercial real estate services. Under his direction, Capstone Advisors has been an equity investor in more than $4 billion of residential development ventures, purchase more than four million square feet of commercial properties, and has overseen third party asset management services for more than 1.5 million square feet of retail and office properties (Read More)
Why e-Commerce Will Never (Totally) Replace Brick-n-Mortar Retail
With the continuing expansion of online retail, some retail real estate owners may worry that e-commerce will eventually replace physical shopping centers. But brick-and-mortar retail isn’t going away, according to San Diego-based Capstone Advisors president Alex Zikakis, who tells us online retailers are opening physical storefronts… Read More
Capstone Advisors is proud to announce the following achievements of 2015
ACQUIRED – Rancho Carmel Plaza – 2015 was a year full of acquisitions of well-located, established properties in highly coveted submarkets. [Read more…] about Capstone Advisors is proud to announce the following achievements of 2015
Capstone Advisors Completes $11.8 Million Retail Acquisition of The Island at Carlsbad
Carlsbad, CA – Capitalizing on its continued strength in adding value to well-located retail properties, Carlsbad-based Capstone Advisors has acquired a property in its own backyard with the purchase of The Island @ Carlsbad. (Read Press Release)
Prominent La Jolla Office Building Completes Renovation
San Diego, CA – San Diego City Council President Sherri Lightner joins Capstone Advisors at Grand Reopening of The Ivanhoe, La Jolla’s newest Class A office building. (Read Press Release)
Community Leaders and Tenants Celebrate Modern Renovation of Morena District Retail Property
San Diego, CA – San Diego City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf joins Capstone Advisors at a Ribbon-Cutting ceremony for the newly renovated The Presidio retail center. (Read Press Release)