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# Hap Stein Speaks to Chain Store Age About 2017 Retail Landscape

[Industry News](https://connect.regencycenters.com/blog/author/industry-news)

January 18, 2017

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Real estate editor [Al Urbanski](http://www.chainstoreage.com/author-information/508943) of [Chain Store Age](http://www.chainstoreage.com/article/real-estate-chiefs-assess-lay-land-01#) recently reached out to **[Hap Stein](http://www.regencycenters.com/company_information/team_leader_details.php?id=1&group=executive-committee#.WHeVtpIShP4)**, Regency's Chairman and CEO to ask him, along with a list of top real estate executives, “If you met a retailer at a cocktail party, and he or she asked you to name the single biggest challenge they’d face in brick-and-mortar in 2017, what would you say?”

> ![Headshot of Hap Stein](https://connect.regencycenters.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Hap_Stein_Color_596x596.jpg?width=193&name=Hap_Stein_Color_596x596.jpg "Hap_Stein_Color_596x596.jpg")"If you have an opportunity to lease good space in a good shopping center, take it. We determine a good center with a combination of trade area demographics, resident and daytime populations, a strong anchor lineup, and average sales over $360 per square foot."

*Learn what other real estate executives say in [this article](http://www.chainstoreage.com/article/real-estate-chiefs-assess-lay-land-01#) published by Chain Store Age.*

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