With retailers and shopping center owners heading to Las Vegas later this month for RECon, the world’s largest retail real estate convention, we asked Mark Dufton, CEO of Gordon Brothers-Real Estate, for his take on the evolving retail real estate market.

Dufton’s firm is among the handful of retail restructuring specialists capturing the lion’s share of restructuring work involving store closings and dispositions. Dufton has more than 25 years…