Matthew Bordwin, managing director and group head of the Real Estate Services team,was quoted in Sasha Pardy's article in CoStar Group

March 4, 2009

Matthew Bordwin, managing director and group head of the Real Estate Services team with KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, was quoted in Sasha Pardy's article, "Filling Vacant Retail Boxes Requires Thinking Outside The Box," in CoStar Group. CoStar Group asked several retail property experts to discuss alternative tenant uses and strategies as well as identify active traditional and non-traditional retailers that continue to sign new leases

"There has not been that much of the alternative users of space taking over traditional retail space. I think all segments of the economy are being battered and no one really wants to take on additional fixed costs at this point," says Bordwin.

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