61 - John Moss

John Moss, Senior Vice-President with CBRE Canada, joins the podcast this week to discuss his enormous passion for retail, and how the work he does with tenants and landlords helps to build great experiences for communities across Calgary as well as how he’s always striving for a win-win.
John’s passion for the retail and service industry begins with the start of his own career, having spent 14 years in the restaurant & hospitality industry. After a job at a movie theatre John started a job as a bus boy at Tony Roma’s at 14 years old, where he worked for the next 7 years and continued in the restaurant industry after moving to Calgary. He’s worked at a number of Calgary fixtures such as Cowboys, The Whiskey, and The Palace, and during his time worked basically every role possible in a restaurant from serving to bartending to dishwashing to managing.

His break into commercial real estate came after completing his Commerce degree at MRU, and a regular client of his working in real estate saw potential in him and encouraged him to change industries. He’d take his passion for the retail and service industry with him to CBRE, where he specializes in helping tenants find locations, negotiate deals, and enter the market with great brand awareness.

“As i learned about the industry it was apparent that I needed to stay in retail"

With the Alberta economy opening back up we also discussed the types of innovations he has seen in the industry both during the quarantine and now during re-opening, and how important it is for us to support local so not everybody has to be a victim of Amazon. John believes that these innovations coming from businesses in retail, hospitality, and personal services are exemplary of Calgarians and Albertans, and that it is in our nature to never give up.

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