Linda Congleton

Biography: L.S. Congleton & Associates (“LSCA”) is an international, retail/mixed-use and shopping center consulting company with premier, specialized expertise in on-street shopping districts; mixed-use hotel/retail/residential projects; master-planned community, Town Center and Main Street shopping centers; regional and neighborhood-serving retail; and tourist-oriented, resort retail destinations. LSCA has over 40 years of experience providing strategic, retail implementation, consultation; financial advisory services; and due diligence acquisition review to shopping center developers/owners; large land owners; Cities and governmental agencies; mixed-use and resort developers; investors; financial firms; pension funds; and chain-store retailers. Our clients retain the company for complex, customized assignments that result in workable solutions for the client’s senior Management team. Retail consultation assignments involve tenant mix optimization/releasing evaluations; shopping center, due diligence, market and financial acquisition reviews; shopping center repositioning and/or turn-around issues; and specialized tourist/visitor sites with significant retail potential. Most assignments involve shopping center and/or retail/restaurant sales projections; rent deal structuring and landlord revenue stream estimates; and targeted or recommended store sizing recommendations. The LSCA team has often worked as part of multi-disciplinary consulting teams with City Management teams, residential and gaming professionals, as well as architects and land use planners. Ms. Congleton was a full member of the Urban Land Institute for many years (now Associate Member), where she served for on ULI’s Commercial/Retail Council. She also served on numerous ULI Advisory Panels for cities across the nation. For several years, Ms. Congleton was the principal instructor at ULI’s two-day, multi-city, shopping center development educational Workshops for experienced real estate professionals.