The Commons businessmen and women are so successful that a majority of them purchase their own building or open additional stores in other markets. Whenever vacancy occurs most landlord's downtown use the vacancy as an opportunity to modernize and reconfigure to meet current needs. Most retail tenant's downtown renew their leases. An average term for most tenant's is 10 years or more. Most landlord's downtown do not take a percentage of the tenant's sales as a part or the tenant's rent.
All money earned by a tenant's downtown business is income for the tenant only.