Exclusive Use Provision in Shopping Center Leases

• Hinckley Allen Real Estate
• November 27, 2018

Retail shopping center leases often include an exclusive use provision, which prohibits a landlord from renting space in a given shopping center to another tenant that engages in the same type of business as the tenant’s primary use (e.g., a grocery stor…

How Blockchain Technology Could Transform Commercial Real Estate: Land Records

• Hinckley Allen Real Estate
• November 27, 2018

There is a lot of buzz around blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Blockchain technology has potentially limitless applications outside of Bitcoin. It could modernize the way we do business. It offers a more secure and transparent system of recording …

A Developer’s Guide to Mixed-use Developments

• Hinckley Allen Real Estate
• November 27, 2018

If one leafs through any real estate trade journal or visits local retailers, it becomes apparent that traditional retail is changing. Developers and retailers share the desire to create projects that attract people on many levels – to relax in interesti…

Qualified Opportunity Zones: Insights from the Government’s New Guidance

• Hinckley Allen Tax & Real Estate
• November 21, 2018

Hinckley Allen published A Practical Guide to the Qualified Opportunity Zone Program, which details a promising new program contained in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that provides significant tax incentives for real estate investors in Qualified Opportun…

Next deadline for the fate of Sears in Concord is coming fast

• Concord Monitor
• October 20, 2018

Jennifer V. Doran provides her insight to the Concord Monitor regarding the retailer's fate in Concord after its bankruptcy filing. How long can the Sears in the Steeplegate Mall delay their decision?

Concord Sears to remain open despite bankruptcy filing

• Concord Monitor
• October 15, 2018

John H. Sokul, Jr. discusses the retailer's latest developments, and its implications with the Concord Monitor. Read more here.