Members of the Kenwood-based consulting firm, founded in August by retail broker Steve Brandt and his longtime associates, think they have an edge helping stores find land here and in nearby cities. Not only is this software special for what it can do, it is special for the ways Brandt employees are trained to work it. Trader Joe's, which is looking for three to four locations to build in Cincinnati. The California retailer asked Brandt to first show it areas that had the highest concentration of post-college education. It then cross-referenced that information with household incomes, narrowing the potential to a few suitable locations.
Decisions are pending.
They focus specifically on retail. The challenge for Brandt Retail Group is finding the right space in a city as hilly and densely built out as Cincinnati. But if you look outside of the box, we found more opportunities than we can handle. Jeffrey Anderson's Skytop Pavilion in Anderson Township required that it buy and assemble a hotel and residential properties, move a creek and cut down half a hill. Seventeen homes and four acres of property were bought and assembled for the Springdale location to open in late 2001.