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Every retail lease is a multi-year financial commitment. Before you put pen to paper, here's how AI-powered location intelligence helps you model real revenue potential and avoid costly mistakes.Signing a commercial lease without understanding a location's revenue potential is one of the most expensive mistakes in retail. Yet, it happens every single day. Operators armed with little more than a broker's pitch, a quick drive-by, and a gut feeling commit to 5- or 10-year lease terms and discover, far too late, that foot traffic never materialized, the trade area demographics were misread, or a competitor a block away was already capturing the customers they needed.In this guide, we walk through the exact methodology, the signals, the models, and the workflow that sophisticated retailers use to stress-test a location before committing to a lease.