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March 30, 2011
  Volume 13 - Number 13
Streamlining the Business of Commercial Real Estate
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The Urgency of Now
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Top of the Week to You! is designed to offer the inside scoop and latest of what's important in the world of technology as it relates to the commercial real estate industry.

The Urgency of Now   

"Someday I'll be able to implement a new and better way to do...whatever."  No one really says this out loud, but most of us say it internally a lot.  Someday is a really dangerous term in the business world.  It is great for laying on the beach, drinking something mildly mind altering and refreshing and dreaming.  We all need dreams.  They help propel us into action or they simply make us feel better.  They are vital.  But someday has little value to us in the work environment.  It's vague.  It's squishy.  It lacks purpose and unless we like to work more than we need to because we like work more than other more pleasant things, we have to keep "someday" at bay.

 

How do we keep someday at bay?  With a healthy sense of urgency.  Lucky for us, we generally have outside pressures and influences that impose urgency.  It's when we don't have deadlines imposed by these outside forces that we get in trouble.  We're not lazy.  We just aren't all hard wired with the ability to work efficiently in a state of self imposed urgency if left to our own device.  In sales we like to call it "pain".  We aren't in enough pain to be "urgent".  Pain is the biggest motivator there is.  It makes us take action far faster than "gain".  In other words, while we set goals and move towards them, that movement isn't nearly as fast as when we're motivated by "pain". 

 

There's value in "urgent".  There's value in having less than what you need and having to work through that.  There's an energy that comes from having to try hard to meet a deadline.  There's energy that comes from finishing the race.  There's a giant feeling of accomplishment in getting something done.  Keeping someday at bay in the work environment gives us more time outside the work environment, where real pleasure and sense of accomplishment are meant to be.  What self imposed urgency can you make?  Find some over and over and see if you don't have more time for "someday dreaming".

 

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Hot Deals/Leads

E.C. Barton & Co. trades as Bartons and Surplus Warehouse at 140 locations throughout AL, AR, FL, LA, MA, MO, MS, NC, NY, OH, RI, SC, TN and TX.  The home improvement centers, offering building materials and supplies, occupy spaces of 25,000 sq.ft. to 35,000 sq.ft. in freestanding locations and strip centers.  Growth opportunities are sought throughout the existing markets during the coming 18 months.  For more information, contact Niel Crowson, E.C. Barton & Co., 2929 Browns Lane, Jonesboro, AR 72403.

 

The Chair King, Inc. trades as The Chair King at 19 locations throughout TX.  The stores, offering casual furniture, as well as indoor and outdoor products, occupy spaces of 15,000 sq.ft. to 35,000 sq.ft. in freestanding locations, malls and power and strip centers.  Growth opportunities are sought throughout the existing market during the coming 18 months.  Typical leases run 10 years with two, five-year options.  For more information, contact Marvin Barish, The Chair King, Inc., 5405 West Sam Houston Parkway North, Houston, TX 77041-5135

 

Sleepy's operates 700 locations throughout CT, DE, MA, MD, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT and Washington, DC.  The stores, offering mattress and related items, occupy spaces of 6,000 sq.ft. to 8,000 sq.ft. in freestanding locations and endcaps and inline spaces of lifestyle, power and specialty centers, in addition to urban/downtown areas.  Growth opportunities are sought throughout CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, PA, RI, VA, VT and Washington, DC during the coming 18 months, with representation by Julius M. Feinblum Real Estate, Inc.  Preferred cotenants include Bed Bath & Beyond and big box retailers.  The company will consider smaller spaces in urban/downtown areas.   For more information, contact Rich Kaye, Julius M. Feinblum Real Estate, Inc., 25 Fairchild Avenue, Suite 500, Plainview, NY 11803; For additional information regarding expansion throughout DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA and Washington, DC, contact Rich Weiss.

 

Harbor Freight Tools operates 300 locations nationwide throughout 44 states.  The home improvement centers occupy spaces of 15,000 sq.ft. in power and strip centers.  Growth opportunities are sought throughout the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area during the coming 18 months, with representation by L3 Corp.   For more information, contact Jay Cohen, L3 Corp., 12655 Olive Boulevard, Suite 220, St. Louis, MO 63141.

 

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