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"The parking lot has always been the unglamorous footnote of the shopping center — a sea of asphalt engineered for cars, not cash flow. That thinking is changing fast. 

Across the retail real estate sector, a growing number of developers and institutional owners are rethinking what a shopping center can actually produce. Rent, long the singular metric of center performance, is increasingly just one line on a longer income statement. The landlords gaining ground today are treating their properties less like passive real estate and more like operating businesses — monetizing foot traffic, sun exposure, curb space, and even consumer data in ways that would have seemed far-fetched a decade ago. 

Most owners still think of a shopping center as four walls and a rent roll. The proactive ones are thinking of their real estate as a canvas — physical infrastructure that produces foot traffic, dwell time, rooftops, data and energy demand. "

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How retail landlords are finding revenue beyond the rent roll | Chain Store Age

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