Top Five for Small Business: Things to Know When Leasing a Space for Your Business
This Top Five monthly series focuses on issues small businesses face daily. Each month features a topic such as human resources, marketing, accounting, IT and others. The featured speaker from each event in the series will introduce five key takeaways that will help your small business be successful.
This month, we'll cover the top five things to know when leasing a space for your business.
Making a commercial real estate decision is an important one and may have long term impacts on you and your organization. You will be faced with many acronyms, brokers and landlords ¾ despite all of that, the process of finding your future location can be fun and rewarding when armed with the right questions and assembling the right team to help you through the process. Our panelists will help you identify these questions and hopefully make the process stress free and ultimately a successful one. We will focus on the following themes:
Top Five things to know when leasing a space for your business
- Benefits of Having a Broker Team - What does a broker and site selection team do? How much do our service cost?
- Know the lingo - What’s triple net? CAM? Gray Shell? Vanilla Box? TI? Work Letter?
- Avoiding the Avoidable – Zoning, parking, WRA and other issues to be aware of
- Lease Agreements/Purchase Negotiations and Agreements
- Tenant Improvements
You may also watch at your desk by registering for the simulcast here (there is a $10 fee). The Top 5 for Small Business is presented by the Greater Des Moines Partnership.
Date and Time
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
Simulcast live from 12 - 1 pm
For those ordering box lunch they will be available at 11:45 am
Location
Graham Annex
Central College
Parking available on south side of University Street.
Fees/Admission
Simulcast is free to attend
$10 for box lunch (must be reserved by 9 am morning of event by calling the PACE Alliance office 641-628-2626.