Sprucing Up the Place

How to Spruce Up Your Shopping Center

If you own Texas commercial real estate, finding ways to keep it the “hot place in Texas” so that it will bring more customers in is a must. To maximize the earning potential of your Texas properties, exerting effort on attracting more people is something you should do—especially if you own a shopping center.

Sprucing Up Your Texas Commercial Real Estate

Think from the customer’s point of view—what would most likely catch your attention to make you explore a shopping center? Here are some helpful ideas to bring more positive attention to your Texas properties:

• Have attractions on your facade. What really catches attention is having a small kid’s playground or a beautiful park-like sitting area. Something new like this would definitely catch the attention of passer-bys. By having a small playground, you attract kids who almost always have a parent accompanying them. Benches and spacious sitting areas would also attract other potential customers to enjoy your space and venture into your shopping center.
• Beautify your walkways – Your Texas properties would benefit from covered walkways with that contemporary feel. You would do well to accentuate the building even with just sleek covered walkways! By having new improvements such as this in your commercial real estate, you are showing that you consistently maintain your building and people will be more curious to see what other new things you have in store for them.
• Use some fresh paint. Your exteriors say a lot about you. If you have changes you want to shout out to the world, you can say so by having a new look! Make sure you stick to colors that are relevant to the business to help people associate them with your mall or shopping center. Keep it simple, but make an effort to have a noticeable finished look.
• If you could expand, do so. Nothing speaks louder when it comes to improving your shopping center than by having an expansion. It may be expanding just a small area or having a new structure joined to the main building of the mall. This is where you can put stalls or other smaller attractions that you would like people to see when they visit you.

Pointers to Remember When Improving Your Texas Properties

When aiming for improvement, remember that your budget must not suffer while doing so. You ought to carefully think about these things:

• Budget – How much are you willing to spend to improve the current look of your shopping center? If you can go for the minor yet noticeable changes first, do these instead of the major ones which you might not have enough for. Starting with the small changes first will harm the business.
• Time to finish – How long would it take to finish your renovations and improvements? Have a good plan when it comes to finishing your renovations and strive to meet your target time of completion.
• How it would affect daily operations – As much as possible, working as efficiently as you can is a must since some renovations get in the way of using some parts of the mall. If you can have the renovations finished sooner than expected, they won’t affect how customers feel when they shop in your malls.

Your shopping mall would benefit from some changes, but take note of other considerations, too!

If you or someone you know, is interested in investing in commercial real estate, feel free to contact me:

Allen J.-Texas Real Estate Broker www.TexasRealtyPros.com broker@texasrealtypros.com 832-305-7653