The first question most Davie c-store tenants ask is what the space should cost. The honest answer is that the quoted base rent is only part of the number, and comparing two Davie quotes on base rent alone will mislead you.
This article explains how convenience store lease rates in Davie are structured, what drives the spread between sites, and how to convert any quote into a single comparable figure.
How Davie C-Store Rent Is Quoted
Most Davie retail space is quoted as an annual base rent per square foot, triple net, with common area maintenance, property taxes, and insurance charged separately. The NNN load is the number tenants underestimate: on small Broward strip centers it commonly adds a meaningful fraction on top of base rent, and it moves with the county tax roll rather than staying fixed.
Forecourt convenience stores are sometimes quoted differently — a flat monthly rent, or a rent plus a per-gallon component tied to the fuel supply arrangement. Those structures are not directly comparable to a per-square-foot inline quote and have to be normalized before you can judge them side by side.
What Drives the Spread Between Sites
Four factors explain most of the variance: corridor visibility, signalized versus mid-block access, whether the center is anchored, and the condition of the delivered space. A signalized corner on University Drive in an anchored center sits at the top of the range; a mid-block bay on a secondary Davie street in an unanchored center sits at the bottom, sometimes at half the top-of-market figure.
Beer and wine eligibility, hours restrictions in the center's rules, and exclusivity clauses held by other tenants also move value. A c-store bay in a center where another tenant holds a packaged-beverage exclusive is worth materially less than the same square footage without that encumbrance.
Converting Any Quote to One Comparable Number
Build a total annual occupancy cost: base rent, plus estimated CAM, taxes, and insurance, plus amortized build-out you are funding, plus percentage rent if the lease has it, minus the value of any free rent or tenant improvement allowance spread across the term. Divide by your realistic annual sales to get occupancy cost as a percentage of revenue.
That percentage is the number that decides whether a store works. Convenience retail runs on thin inside margins, so a site that looks affordable in dollars can be unaffordable as a share of sales. Run the same calculation on every site you tour and rank by that figure, not by the rent on the flyer.
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