Retail will continue to evolve in 2020, as it continues to be struck by the changes that it has already endured this cycle. Now that evolution is focused on standing out and creating unique experiences. As a result, landlords will out more emphasis on tenant curation and tenant mix. However, despite the ongoing changes in the sector, Southern California will be a top market for retail investment in 2020.

"Retail will continue to be refined and redefined both locally and globally," Garrett Colburn, EVP and managing principal of SRS' California offices, tells GlobeSt.com.

"Landlords and tenants alike will continue to focus their efforts on how to be different, and how to curate destinations that deliver more authentic experiences."

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.