Cohen Equities Offers Rent-Free Year for Top Retail Concept

Cohen Equities is offering free rent, marketing support and business coaching/mentoring for the winners of a “Shark Tank”-like contest for the best retail concept. Entry deadline is Aug. 16, and the winner will be announced during an event in September. The chosen entries will be showcased at The Meadows at Lake St. Louis in time for the holiday shopping season. The program, tagged RetailNext, arrives as traditional retailers close stores and online brands open units “and real estate mavens are trying to figure out the next big thing,” Cohen Equities said in a statement. “RetailNext is searching for the next big thing in retail presented by an existing brick-and-mortar retailer, online retailer or start-up…[that] will win free rent up to one year along with the support of several high-profile mentors/judges [e.g. ‘Shark Tank’], mall management and retail marketing experts,” the company added. The judges include Maxine Clark, founder of Build-a-Bear Workshop; Meir Cohen, chairman and chief executive officer of Cohen Equities; Norty Cohen, ceo of Moosylvania; Mike Donovan, principal at Balke Brown Transwestern; Emily Lohse-Busch, executive director of Arch Grants; Susan Sherman, cofounder of the Saint Louis Fashion Fund; Martin Sneider, retail professor at Washington University, and Stacy Taubman, founder and ceo of Rise Collaborative Workspaces,

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