Entertainment Retail Centers

Entertainment Properties Trust owns and develops destination entertainment retail center properties of the highest quality that create vibrant destinations for consumers and set the scene for tenant business success.  Currently EPR has invested over $600 million in eight such centers.

As a multi-billion-dollar, NYSE-listed real estate investment trust with an international reputation for developing, owning, leasing and financing properties for consumer-preferred, high-quality organizations, EPR is uniquely positioned to develop and own entertainment retail centers.

Our investment strategies – rooted in our experience as the nation’s leading owner of movie theatre properties – arise from a deep understanding of how consumers spend their leisure-time dollars. We understand the competitive entertainment and retail markets. We facilitate the real estate financing solutions for these businesses in order to enable and enrich the business strategies of our tenants.

Sometimes called "the new mall of the new millennium," entertainment retail centers attract a wide range of businesses because consumers have a wide and deep thirst for fun and rejuvenating leisure experiences.

"Consumers are stressed out and have little time," Retail Traffic magazine says, "yet they expect the right to escape from the stresses of daily life." Entertainment retail centers "become people magnets, attracting both locals and tourists. Today's consumers no longer want to get away from it all; they want to get into it all."

Gas- and time-saving one-stop entertainment center is attractive for consumers who come for the food and stay for the fun. It’s still "dinner and a movie," of course, something we know about at EPR. But now also it's dinner and shopping, dinner and ice-skating, dinner and bowling, dinner and miniature golf, or dinner and sports events on the tavern big screen with friends.

With more than a decade of experience and success, EPR provides investment capital solutions that enable retail businesses to successfully execute their strategies. As a highly successful and well-managed destination real estate financing company, EPR serves as a brand endorsement that can attract more interest, support and acclaim to our restaurant, entertainment and retail enterprise partners.