When looking for a great property that could be developed for a retail shopping centre, what are the main factors you evaluate?
**I work in a large city/area (Toronto/GTA)**
I'm trying to learn more about how to find new properties/opportunities and am hoping to get some advice and opinions.
[{"id": "i6eca26", "text": "Location location location", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i6ej2zu", "text": "location luck leverage. foot traffic, drive traffic, access points. curb appeal, etc etc. there is an entire industry just for this question. good LUCK!", "replies": [{"id": "i6fex04", "text": "Thanks! Do you have any good reading material I could dive into for this sort of thing? Or any youtube videos/websites you trust that give good information?", "replies": [{"id": "i6fxc19", "text": "It's really all about relationships, both with retailers/brokers and with town officials and then the professionals i.e. engineers architects attorneys etc. You gotta network", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i6ejq1z", "text": "Visibility, access, demos (area income, population) are the big ones, you can go into a deep rabbit hole after that.  Gov incentives and gap analysis be some of the next things", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i6h0e9r", "text": "Thought i had one a couple years ago, look up the traffic counts, only 12K a day, not gonna do it. \n\n&amp;#x200B;\n\nIt's really hard, but you can turn $300K into $3.5M in 15months if done right.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i6h1g8f", "text": "There is the movie, Once Upon a Time in the West if you need inspiration.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i6ht52t", "text": "Don\u2019t build retail in the GTA right now, not the right environment or time. Huge oversupply, plenty is getting torn down and replaced with resi because of it.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]