who attended last month’s RECon, the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual global retail real estate convention in Las Vegas.

As a national commercial contractor specializing in the retail and restaurant sectors, Englewood Construction sees RECon as a valuable opportunity to not only meet with the firm’s national developer clients and network with new contacts from across the country, but also to take the temperature of the retail construction and development landscape. The Englewood team gave a rundown of the top trends they saw at the convention in the latest post to the company’s Hard Hat Chat blog. Read the full post here, and be sure to subscribe to Hard Hat Chat for more insights on the commercial construction industry.

According to Englewood, the hot restaurant sector was a point of focus at RECon, with many national brands discussing plans to refresh, reposition or relocate established concepts.