Start preparing now. “Developers that used to focus on just one sector, like retail or office, are now bringing in apartments, hotel, condos, restaurants, entertainment uses, you name it. If you want to stay in development these days, you almost have to do mixed-use in order to get deals to pencil out and to get investors and tenants interested.” But mixed-use projects and related partnerships can be more complicated than developing, say, a hotel or a grocery-anchored shopping center alone. SCT asked developers and consultants with experience in mixed-use to offer advice on ways that partners from diverse sectors — retail, multifamily, office and others — can effectively collaborate on these projects.

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