Value investing is a very difficult business because, when the stock market is richly valued, it's hard to find big discounts and these investors don't follow the herd on Wall Street and the institutional investor mentality.

Many see a sector with tenants that have responded creatively to the challenge presented by e-commerce.

Amazon is just one of many that has made this metro a center of its operations.

The overall Atlanta shopping center vacancy rate dropped to almost half in over five years, from 9.9 percent at the end of the first-quarter 2013 to 5.7 percent at the end of first-quarter 2018, says NKF Research.