Anchor store

The anchor tenants (often anchor business -. Anchor Store from the English ) the main or a major user is within a commercial property. The term is preferably used in conjunction with retail properties and shopping centers where the anchor tenant is the customer traffic bearer for the entire object.

The anchor tenant has an above-average customer traction and is therefore also called a solenoid operating. The positioning within the real property plays an important role, because benefit from the attractive force of the anchor tenant, the other, smaller shops. The typical mall, which consists of a shopping mall with small shops between two anchor tenants, goes back to the idea of Victor Gruen.

Economically, the anchor tenant is the frequency -making workhorse ( with larger centers more than one). Are also due to the usually large rental space rents of anchor tenants comparatively low, so that the economic benefits for the owner mainly from the other rental space is generated. Its function as an anchor tenant such as these unfold at the end of a long line of shops, which is justified by the ( lower ) layer and the lower rent. For new projects, the anchor tenant must first be bound, as the blank and the assignment of the remaining areas ( industry mix ) directed by him. Anchor tenants are often large department stores, electronics retailers or large textile traders and often even involved as investors in the projects.

The anchor tenant is therefore also a weak point in the economy of a shopping center. The extract of an anchor tenant can quickly lead to the other tenants due to low customer frequency also pull that revenues do not cover the costs or short term a new anchor tenant ( often unfavorable for the center conditions) must be bound to the effects mentioned to be avoided. Therefore, put the management of the Centre may pressure an anchor tenant to enforce their own goals.