Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies

In his newest book, Sustainable Retail Development: New Success Strategies, Jerry addresses the emerging issue of green retail buildings and retail development that will grow significantly in importance over the next half-decade, a trend seen throughout the developed world. This volume is a practical and comprehensive guide to greening retail real estate, including green building and marketing strategies, corporate sustainability programs and features a 10 point “action program” for greening any retail real estate portfolio. This book should be essential reading for professionals in design, construction and operations of shopping centers and retail stores. Well illustrated, it features more than 30 green retail developments from North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia, as well as interviews with 25 leading industry experts.

Leading green building expert and ICSC Research Scholar Jerry Yudelson presents a solid business case for greening retail rel estate and shows how leading companies are advancing sustainable retail business.

“Sustainable Retail Development does an excellent job of discussing the opportunities available to retail developers for adopting high-performance retail design.  Addressing and understanding the split incentives between retail developers and their tenants is the first step to finding solutions that reward both sides.”

Mary Lou Fiala
Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
Regency Centers, U.S.

“An authoritative book which is not only a pleasure to read from cover to cover, increasing the knowledge of the reader with the turn of every page, but also a book that can easily be used for quick reference.  A must for all wanting to know about the current state of sustainability in the retail sector”

Martin Townsend
Director
BRE Global, U.K.



Jerry Yudelson is a professional engineer with an MBA. He has trained 3,500 people in the LEED green building rating system, and has chaired Greenbuild, the world’s largest green building conference, for the past five years. The founder of a green building consulting firm, he is the author of three books on green building marketing and an advisor to manufacturers, venture capital firms, design firms and developers.

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LEEDing Retail To
Greener Pastures

In this just published research report, Jerry Yudelson lays out how to take advantage of the forthcoming release of the new LEED for Retail rating system, including both new construction and tenant improvements.

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