Giving away a lease for six months to a restaurant/bar/cafe? Outside of New Orleans
So, I have some real estate in a small town outside of New Orleans, and it is small, so we will leave it at that. I've been trying to rent it out, as I do get messages, but nothing really amounts to anything. Lowered the price, but nothing really worth following up so far.

In all honesty I think the most keen element of building community and culture is introducing a hospitality industry, an obvious commodity.

What are your thoughts on just throwing this out there and hell I've even thought of contacting restaurants seeing if they would want to take up the offer. Six months free, I've even entertained the idea of year, but that is pushing it.

https://neworleans.craigslist.org/off/6187559690.html
This is the unit and no I'm not advertising, I'm sure none of you are coming out here but I'm desperate in advice.
[{"id": "djpqg64", "text": "Is it a 2nd gen restaurant? Does it already have a hood, greaser traps, and everything?\n\nOffer 6 months free with 5-10 year lease. ", "replies": [{"id": "djprn2o", "text": "No, it has none of that. Knowing that we've already had one restaurant open next door, first in decades, paying 850 a month, that this low rent would be enough to sway, no rent, would be enough for them to want to invest within itself.\n\nObviously the idea is to lock everything down with a concrete lease. Also need to sift through the garbage of people attempting to acquire space, which I admire, but every home cook wants to open a place, and it is a bitch to go through the same thing with everyone. ", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djpxztc", "text": "We use rent abatements when renting out new construction commercial space. Doesn't matter how much you advertise vanilla box delivery, they don't care. The conversation will eventually go a bit like this: \n\ntenant: please build out everything \nlandlord: No but, in lieu of that, please accept 3-6 months rent free as our contribution to your build out (as part of a 3 year lease)\n", "replies": [{"id": "djpya0c", "text": "I'd be prone to agree, my vision relies on the assumption that focusing on the hospitality industry really emphasizes the fact that you have to invest into the property.\n\nWe hooked one restaurant with really just sheer luck, and they paid from the start, but knowing people, they'll be people and even with a hand up, they may try to pull you down. ", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djq4hiz", "text": "I think you're making a huge mistake by pigeon-holing it as a cafe/restaurant/bar space.\n\n1) It doesn't even remotely look like a restaurant space to me.  Office space seems more suitable.  I.e. Insurance sales or other types of office space.\n\n2) You can't just build community and culture by adding a restaurant.  It needs to be balanced with the current population and offerings.\n\n3) Restaurants are about the least successful line of business unless it's a big name franchise, but very few franchises would approve of such a building.\n\nIt may be nice if someone comes in and pays for a build-out, but very few would be crazy enough to do so when it's missing so much core restaurant infrastructure.  Much easier for a tenant to get a space that has at least some of that built already... and goodness knows there are plenty with all the restaurants that fail.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "djq4tl2", "text": "The restaurant next door was a doctors office, though it is bigger, every time I hear these faults, I look to that. Now, that situation may have been pure luck, but this place hasn't been renting out in sometime, I'm not losing out on holding out for a chance to take. \n\nIt is a industrial town, it serves plant workers, the current place in operation next door opens five days a week, open three and a half hours, turns a profit, and pays rent.\n\nSo as much as people have told me, and you're not the only one, I can look at that. Again that may have been luck, but lighting may just strike in the same place twice. \n\nAnd in all honesty, you may not be able to force community, but between what we have and that being a major industrial institution, a white trash bar or two, a dollar store, a Subway, a grocery store, and a hair salon, being literal here, that one of the best ways in Louisiana to build community and is food and call it a long shot, I'm going to operate off that theory with nothing to lose. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]