Retail Attractions

What Retail Attractions does

Retail Attractions is an economic development consulting firm headquartered in Owasso, Oklahoma, founded in 2007 by Rickey Hayes. The firm helps municipalities, commercial real estate brokerages, retailers, restaurant chains, and developers identify, attract, and close retail development projects. Its core service platform consists of six interconnected offerings: Strategic Planning, Economic Development (retail recruitment and relationship brokering), Municipal Infrastructure consulting, Site Selection, Demographic Analysis using Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation and opportunity gap analysis, and Aerial Photography for development projects. The firm also monetizes two books authored by Hayes on city development and municipal government challenges through Amazon.

The firm has built a geographic footprint covering 400+ cities in 39 states, with direct working relationships spanning over 200 development groups. Its core customers are municipal economic development offices that lack the internal relationships to engage national retailers, supplemented by commercial real estate brokers and retailers needing local market intelligence. Services are delivered as project-based and contract engagements, sold via direct outreach, founder-led relationships, referrals from existing clients and chamber partners, and content marketing (blog, books, and social media). Pricing is not publicly disclosed; prospective clients contact the firm directly via phone or web form.

The firm operates with a lean core team of three — CEO Rickey Hayes, Partner Brent Kisling, and Project Manager Micah Hayes — supported by the founder's prior experience as Economic Development Director for the City of Owasso. It is a privately-held LLC with no disclosed external funding, acquisitions, or institutional investment. The competitive position rests on Hayes's personal network of relationships with retail executives and developers, a methodology emphasizing Reilly's Law trade area analysis, and a referral-driven go-to-market motion rather than proprietary technology or scale advantages.

Name

Retail Attractions

Legal name

Retail Attractions, LLC

Website

https://retailattractions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Retail Attractions is an Owasso, Oklahoma-based economic development consulting firm that helps municipalities, commercial real estate brokers, and retailers plan, recruit, and site retail development projects across 400+ cities in 39 US states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Owasso

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Economic Development Consulting: Project-based and contract consulting services for municipal clients. The company offers three tiers of contract service in addition to project-based and short-term engagements, allowing tailored services to each client community's needs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Retail Attractions is an economic development consulting firm that helps cities, municipalities, and commercial developers attract retail and restaurant tenants through strategic planning, site selection, demographic analysis, and aerial photography services. The firm engages directly with municipal economic development offices and retail/restaurant chains, applying proprietary methodologies such as Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation to identify viable retail sites and recruit operators to underserved markets.

Product overview

Retail Attractions is an economic development consulting firm that provides a unified suite of advisory services to help communities attract retail development and grow their economies. The core offering consists of six interconnected consulting services: Strategic Planning (four-phase city planning process), Economic Development (retail recruitment and relationship building), Municipal Infrastructure (comprehensive municipal planning), Site Selection (retail site identification across 400+ cities), Demographic Analysis (trade area definition using Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation), and Aerial Photography (drone and aircraft photography for development projects). The firm also publishes two books by founder Rickey Hayes on urban economics and city development. These services work together to provide cities with data-driven insights, strategic planning frameworks, and direct connections to the retail development community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Successful retail developments brought to communities including multiple new businesses, hotels, and shopping facilities resulting in increased school bonding capacity

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• TIP Strategies: TIP Strategies is an economic development consulting firm serving cities, regions, and utilities with strategic planning and target industry analysis, directly comparable to Retail Attractions' strategic planning and economic development offerings for municipal clients.
• Camoin Associates: Camoin Associates is an economic development consulting firm that provides market analysis, target industry studies, and strategic plans for communities, directly competing with Retail Attractions in the municipal economic development advisory space.
• Angelou Economics: Angelou Economics is an economic development consulting firm that provides target industry studies, workforce analysis, and strategic planning for communities, competing in the same municipal consulting space as Retail Attractions.
• McCallum Sweeney Consulting: McCallum Sweeney Consulting specializes in site selection and incentives negotiation for major industrial and corporate projects, sharing Retail Attractions' site selection focus but skewing toward larger corporate and industrial engagements.
• PlaceDynamics: PlaceDynamics is a retail market research and consulting firm that helps communities attract retailers through data analysis and retail recruitment, directly overlapping with Retail Attractions' community retail development advisory practice.
• Retail Strategies: Retail Strategies is a retail recruitment consulting firm that helps communities attract retail and restaurant development, directly competing with Retail Attractions for municipal government clients across the United States with a similar relationship-driven service model.
• Buxton: Buxton provides retail analytics, site selection, and customer intelligence to retailers and communities, overlapping with Retail Attractions on demographic analysis and trade area definition using data-driven methodologies.
• RetailNet Group: RetailNet Group is a retail real estate advisory firm providing brokerage, site selection, and market analysis for retailers and restaurants, directly comparable to Retail Attractions' site selection and demographic analysis services for retail tenants.
• Avalanche Consulting: Avalanche Consulting is an economic development and strategy consulting firm that performs target industry analyses, community assessments, and strategic plans for cities, directly competing with Retail Attractions in municipal economic development advisory.

Emerging players

• Placer.ai: Placer.ai is a foot traffic and location analytics platform used by retailers and real estate professionals for site selection and trade area analysis, an emerging technology-enabled competitor to the data and site selection work that Retail Attractions performs manually.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/retailattr
• Facebookfacebook.com/RetailAttractions
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/retailattractionsllc

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Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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