The Village Center Gets a Second Fitting

Samantha David, president of WS Development, has been talking through how older retail properties can be reworked into a fresh take on the walkable, main-street shopping district. Her thinking extends past the bricks and awnings to the harder question of which shops belong side by side, and why. That is the part a closet-minded reader cares about, since a well-edited tenant mix is what decides whether an afternoon stroll ends with a shopping bag. Consider it the real-estate version of a careful wardrobe edit: keep the good bones, rethink what hangs inside.

With reporting from WWD.