The source adds the following definitions:
General retail: consists of single-tenant, freestanding, general-purpose
commercial buildings with parking.
Malls: includes Lifestyle Centers, Regional Malls and Superregional Malls.
Power centers: consists of several freestanding anchors with minimal
small tenants, 250,000–600,000 sq. ft.
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Square footage of retail real estate in the U.S. 2023, by type
Most of the retail real estate stock in the United States in 2023 was general retail space. That includes single-tenant freestanding commercial buildings with parking, such as drugstores, grocery stores, and street front urban retail stores. About *** billion of the total ** billion square feet of retail space fell in this category. This was also the retail real estate type with the lowest vacancy rate.
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