Sep 30, 2026 · 49 min · 15 segments
What if one of commercial real estate's most overlooked sectors is becoming one of its biggest opportunities? Andy Weiner, CEO and founder of Rockstep Capital, shares how his team acquires distressed…
And what are some other types of potential anchor tenants that you look at bringing in? Obviously, we mentioned the potential for education type ones.
And obviously, as you do these and even through the rest of your experience in retail, you've built these relationships over the years where you have people that say, hey, look, if you've got a space, I'll be potential.
But what are some other ones that you see? Let me
go to a higher level and say, why is it that retail is kind of a favored asset class today?
Yeah.
Can
So retail was out of favor until about three or four years ago because everyone feared that Amazon...
And these companies are usually public, not all of them, but they're telling Wall Street, you know what? We're going to grow per year a certain number of stores.
So you have all of these companies opening up thousands of stores into an inventory that's not growing.
And what are some other types of potential anchor tenants that you look at bringing in? Obviously, we mentioned the potential for education type ones.
And obviously, as you do these and even through the rest of your experience in retail, you've built these relationships over the years where you have people that say, hey, look, if you've got a space, I'll be potential.
But what are some other ones that you see? Let me
go to a higher level and say, why is it that retail is kind of a favored asset class today?
Yeah.
Can
So retail was out of favor until about three or four years ago because everyone feared that Amazon...
And these companies are usually public, not all of them, but they're telling Wall Street, you know what? We're going to grow per year a certain number of stores.
So you have all of these companies opening up thousands of stores into an inventory that's not growing.
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