Search for Community
The Retail Coach partners with communities across the United States to bring new retail opportunities and economic growth. By leveraging our extensive network of industry connections and our deep understanding of retail site selection in local markets, we identify and attract the right retail businesses to each community.
Through its unique Retail360® Process, The Retail Coach offers a dynamic system of products and services that better enable communities to maximize their retail development potential.
Retail Recruitment
Community leaders are increasingly tasked with the vital role of recruiting retail businesses to drive economic growth and enhance local vitality. The Retail Coach partners with these leaders to provide expert guidance and tailored strategies that attract new retailers to their markets. By leveraging data-driven insights and innovative approaches, we help communities build a thriving retail environment that not only boosts the local economy but also enriches the overall quality of life for residents. Together, we can turn retail recruitment into a catalyst for sustainable community development.
Community Trade Area Reports
A community’s consumer trade area data is crucial for making informed retail economic development decisions. Every community has a unique story to tell, and understanding the nuances of your market is essential for attracting the right retailers. The Retail Coach specializes in equipping community leaders with the data deliverables that fuel retail growth. As experts in the retail economic development and recruitment industry, we provide the insights and analytics your community needs to strategically engage retailers and foster a vibrant local economy.
Downtown Retail Revitalization
Downtowns are the heartbeat of a community, and a vibrant mix of local, regional, and national retailers is essential for the vitality of the downtown district. The Retail Coach’s approach to downtown development and retail revitalization is rooted in our Retail 360 process, which emphasizes comprehensive strategies tailored to each community’s unique needs. We recognize the importance of creating quality public spaces where people can live, work, play, and shop. Let us partner with you to assess your downtown or corridor in need of revitalization, and explore how we can effectively spur retail economic development to enhance your community’s overall appeal and prosperity.
Training Workshops
Recruiting retail to a community is a vital extension of economic development and business expansion. Whether you have an in-house team ready to take on retail recruitment or are just starting to explore this process, our training workshops offer the perfect solution. Over two engaging days—available both virtually and in person—your staff will learn proven strategies developed by our team of experts over the past 25 years. With the essential data deliverables at your fingertips, you’ll gain the skills to effectively market your community to retail site selectors, commercial real estate brokers, and developers, positioning your market for retail success.
Providing more than simple data reports of psychographic and demographic trends, The Retail Coach goes well beyond other retail consulting and market research firms’ offerings by combining current national and statewide demographics and trend data with real-world, “on-the-ground” information gathered through extensive visits to our clients’ communities. Every community is different, and there is no “one size fits all” retail recruitment solution. Compiling the gathered data into client-tailored information packets that are uniquely designed for, and targeted to, specific retailers and restaurants who meet the community’s needs help assure our clients that they are receiving the latest and best information for targeted retail recruitment efforts — all with personal service and coaching guidance that continues beyond the initial project scope and timeline.
Our Retail:360® Process assures that communities get timely, accurate and relevant information. Translating that data into the information that retailers need and seek assures our clients even better possibilities for tremendous retail growth and success.