November came fast. We spent a good stretch of October on the road at ICSC Southeast in Atlanta, CREtech in New York, and IEDC Annual in New Orleans. It’s good to be back at our desks!
This issue features our latest piece on a challenge every multi-unit brand runs into at some point: entering a new state without local relationships, and what a team can actually know before the first broker call. If you work with tenants on multi-state rollouts or advise on site selection for expanding brands, it’s worth a read.
We also shipped a meaningful update to saved searches in Associate: client listing updates can now go directly from a saved search, no separate dynamic report required. More on that below.
As always, thanks for reading.
The Data Point
Entering a New State Without a Local Network: How Expanding Brands Find Their First Sites
The first site a brand opens in a new state does more work than any that follows. It sets the store prototype, builds the local vendor and partner roster, and determines whether the concept can travel beyond its home market. The team making that decision usually arrives without landlord relationships, without a read on which corridors draw traffic, and without a way to know which listings in the market are actually current.
That last gap costs more than it seems. Stale listings inflate the candidate count, and first broker meetings spent correcting the shortlist come out of the schedule for every store that follows. A team that arrives with verified, current inventory can use those early conversations for what they’re actually good at: landlord context, neighborhood history, and the deal conditions that don’t show up in a database.
Read the full article. Entering a New State Without a Local Network
Client Spotlight
JAXUSA Partnership: Keeping Northeast Florida’s Pipeline Current
JAXUSA Partnership serves one of the fastest-growing metros in the Southeast. For a team fielding inquiries from site selectors and prospects across a large, active market, keeping commercial inventory accurate and current isn’t a background task — it’s what makes every conversation more productive.
Resimplifi works with economic development organizations across the country, giving teams a way to keep verified commercial inventory in front of site selectors without adding to already-stretched workloads.
"Resimplifi is an essential part of our team, automatically obtaining and maintaining site availability and information, which allows us to respond quickly and feel assured we have up-to-date records."
Want to see how Resimplifi can work for your market? Book a demo with our team
On Our Radar
Three Reads Worth Your Time
Our team tracks dozens of CRE and economic development sources every week. Here are three pieces that stood out and why they matter to you.
AEP
AEP Creates New Business Unit to Meet Large-Load Energy Demand
AEP restructured its competitive generation and infrastructure operations into a dedicated unit designed to attract industrial and large-load customers, a signal of where energy infrastructure investment is heading.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Colorado’s Opportunity Zone 2.0 Tracts Get Treasury Approval
All 91 census tracts Colorado submitted for the second round of federal Opportunity Zones were approved, including three in Mesa County, with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2027.
InnovationMap
Houston Ranks Sixth for Small-Business Expansion
A new ranking of 56 major U.S. metros put Houston sixth for small-business expansion, a marker worth watching for anyone tracking where tenant demand is building.
From the Platform
New in Associate: Smarter Saved Searches
Saved searches in Associate now send client updates directly. Previously, notifying a client about new matching listings required setting up a separate dynamic report. With this update, each saved search can send hourly or daily emails to up to five recipients, with the listing broker hidden from the client view. Each search keeps its own recipient list, so you can track different clients without creating a new report for each one.
If you’ve been using dynamic reports for client notifications, you can transition by editing the report and unchecking “Notify Contacts of Report Changes.” Dynamic reports remain available for sharing curated listing sets.
See smarter saved searches in action. Book a demo
Company News
Resimplifi Named #9 on South Carolina’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies
We’re proud to share that Resimplifi has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in South Carolina, coming in at #9 on this year’s list. Our team was at the SC Top 50 Luncheon in Columbia on October 12th to accept the honor.
A few words from our CEO:
"Being recognized as the #9 fastest growing company in South Carolina is especially meaningful to me. I was born and raised in this state, and South Carolina will always be home. To build a company here and see it recognized among the state’s fastest growing businesses is a tremendous honor. I’m incredibly proud of our team, whose hard work, talent, and commitment have made this possible."
South Carolina’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies. See the full list of honorees