In other words, the city you're thinking about investing in has no comic anchor.

Most importantly, does any of these submarkets have any economic anchors  like state government, major universities, major health care centers, or manufacturers that are independent of the economy like military suppliers that employs most of the residents of that submarket?

Their emotions are a result of the previous owners of the property but mentally anchored to the real estate.

The tenant attorney and tenant rep broker of course will try to do the opposite of what the landlord wants in ultimate guaranty security of lease, annual rental increases, and long term primary lease term.If you left it up to a tenant they would try 3 year primary lease, blocked rent increases so not annual, sales clause if not at certain level they can terminate or reduce rent, co-tenant anchor clauses, crazy broad restrictive uses for other units in the center, no personal guarantee, no disclosure of personal or business financials per the lease, set up a single entity remote LLC so they can bankrupt it for one location if things go bad, put a ROFR clause in the lease, incapacity clause where if tenant gets sick or hurt they can cancel lease, construction road widening clause where tenant can pay reduced rent while access is reduced to the center, unreasonable CAM cap clauses, etc.I can go on and on with the crap I have seen in leases for my clients buying retail centers where I am the broker.

I'm currently looking for multi family and grocery anchored retail centers.

In this current climate, I'd probably stick to commercial that's anchored by products people will always need - food, clothing, shelter, insurance and alcohol.

Even up to the point where google loved incoming anchor links.

Avoid Common Anchor Text Avoid putting same anchor text in every page otherwise it can make you a spammer in search engine’s eye.

The developer gets to beta test a new business opportunity that he’s interested in using as an anchor tenant for sites in other markets.

Having built a number of custom homes over the years, I can assure anyone that cabinets are sometimes anchored to the subfloor.