Originally Posted by
Bham1982
I agree on both points, but I don't see those factors guiding site selection.
Retailers generally cluster, and often benefit from competitor traffic. That's why a Whole Foods in Troy sits across from Kroger and Hollywood Market, and that's why Plum Market in Birmingham sits across from Kroger and a gourmet specialty market [[forgot the name).
I remember in Manhattan's Union Square, you have Whole Foods, Pathmark, Amish Market and Trader Joe's [[not to mention a huge greemarket) all basically across the street from one another.
I can see the youth factor coming into play in, say Ann Arbor, where you have a huge collegiate and post-collegiate population, but Wayne is primarily a comumter campus. And I don't think they would open in Ann Arbor if you didn't have a very prosperous town and county.