Houston Retail & Mixed Use Summit

Why You Should Attend This 2026 Houston Retail & Mixed-Use Event

What We'll Cover:

• How leasing strategies, rent growth, and capital flows are playing out in a true landlord’s market, including what it takes to get a deal done today, how far rents can go with construction and labor costs where they are, and what lenders now expect on preleasing, risk and returns.
• How mixed-use districts are being designed and financed across both urban core and outer-ring locations, from MPCs where retail in isolation is harder to justify, to projects where a meaningful mix of uses, walkability and “third places” is essential for demand, performance and long-term value.
• How owners and operators are reimagining aging assets, lifestyle centers and B & C product, and what current repositioning and leasing strategies reveal about staying power, operating expenses, and how to make deals pencil in a tighter financing environment.
• The rise of experience-driven anchors and culturally specific concepts—restaurants as entertainment anchors, fitness and wellness, community-focused third places—and how they shape merchandising strategy, tenant selection, and proof of staying power in a market where not everything that works in Dallas works in Houston.
• How limited new supply, rising labor costs, “wild west” zoning, and evolving tenant demand are influencing site selection, cap rates, underwriting assumptions and the future of live-work-play environments across Greater Houston’s retail and mixed-use landscape

How You'll Do More Business: Join Bisnow for an in-depth look at the forces reshaping retail and mixed-use across Greater Houston, from a true landlord’s market and tougher financing conditions to the mixed-use, live-work-play environments tenants are prioritizing. This event connects the dots between tenant demand, merchandising and asset management, and explores how experience-driven anchors, walkable third places and constrained new supply are influencing rents, site selection, capital stacks and long-term value. Bisnow brings together the region’s top owners, developers, investors, lenders and retail operators to uncover which concepts actually work in Houston, how complex projects are getting financed and leased in today’s environment, including creative tools such as city participation and PACE financing, and what it takes to create resilient, high-performing retail and mixed-use destinations across the metro.

Who You'll Meet:

• Owners and developers of retail and mixed-use projects across Greater Houston​
• Retailers, restaurateurs, entertainment concepts and experiential operators expanding or optimizing their footprints​
• Institutional and private equity investors, lenders and capital providers active in Houston retail​
• Leasing, asset management and property management leaders focused on merchandising, activation and NOI​
• Brokers, tenant reps and site-selection teams tracking retailer demand and emerging trade areas

Why You Should Attend: Bisnow events convene the most influential leaders in retail and mixed-use to identify opportunities, build meaningful connections, and drive business growth across Greater Houston. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, Bisnow delivers unmatched access to the people, projects, and insights shaping the region’s retail landscape, from infill repositionings to large-scale suburban destinations. Join us for a focused look at Houston’s retail and mixed-use market and the leasing, capital, and placemaking strategies defining its next phase of growth.​

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For venue/location questions or to request disability-related accommodations, please contact claire.ahrens@bisnow.com no later than 7 business days before the event.

For speaker recommendations or press inquiries please email our Texas event producer Carissa Batson at carissa.batson@bisnow.com.

Houston Retail & Mixed-Use News & Projects

• River Oaks Development Adds Retailers | Realty News Report
• Big Development in Inner Loop | Realty News Report
• East River - Houston
• MetroNational Buys CityCentre’s Retail Space | Realty News Report
• 134-acre Waterview Town Center in Fort Bend County close to build-out after 15 years
• New mixed-use center in Atascocita's The Groves takes shape with retail and apartments - Houston Business Journal
• Houston developer breaks ground on $400 million, 165 acre Katy project
• New Magnolia Town Center will transform part of Montgomery County
• Construction starts on Memorial City's Greenside retail, dining hub
• 22-acre 'lifestyle destination' dining, retail and office space coming to Katy-area
• Creekside Village Green 'lifestyle center' in The Woodlands sells again - Houston Business Journal
• Vietnamese-only food hall planned for Bellaire Market District development in Little Saigon - Houston Business Journal
• Weitzman Group releases updated site plan for Manvel Town Center | Community Impact
• Transformative multimillion-dollar upgrades' planned for The Galleria in Houston
• $150M Sunset Amphitheater planned for Webster near Great Wolf Lodge - Houston Business Journal
• Mixed-use development Ashford Yard planned on ex-SLB campus - Houston Business Journal
• Memorial City Mall is getting an $8.75 million upgrade
• Houston Grains Silos Giving Way to Apartments, Retail - Connect CRE
• Houston Texans to open new HQ, practice facilities in planned 83-acre district in Bridgeland
• 188-acre Marketplace shopping center coming soon to Valley Ranch | Community Impact
• Creekside Village Green 'lifestyle center' in The Woodlands sells again - Houston Business Journal

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