The ICSC RECon show is coming to Las Vegas again this year. Here are some facts about the show:
* Over 50,000 industry professionals attend the ICSC's RECon in 2007 representing:
-Owners/developers: 42%
-Retailers: 33%
-Financial and investment institutions: 10%
-Economic development agencies and municipalities: 6%
-Architects, design and construction: 5%
-Suppliers: 3%
-Others: 1%
* Attendees represent approximately 51 countries from five continents.
* ICSC's RECon contains three components:
* Industry educational sessions (Sunday through Wednesday).
* Trade exposition featuring the latest and most innovative products and services (Sunday-Wednesday)
* Leasing mall featuring 1,300 of the world's leading owners, developers, retailers, brokers, economic development agencies, municipalities, financial institutions and lenders for networking and conducting business (Monday through Wednesday).
* ICSC's RECon is one of the largest conventions in North America.
* ICSC's RECon is the largest gathering of retail real estate professionals in North America.
* The Trade Exposition occupies 240,000 s/f.
* The Leasing Mall encompasses 2.0 million s/f.
* ICSC's estimates that approximately 50% of the retail real estate industry's shopping center leases are signed or conceived during the RECon.

For more information visit ICSC's RECon website at www.icsc.org.