Retail Properties

Give shoppers a reason to come to your center, not justpass through

Alvéole installs and manages rooftop beehives at retail zproperties and builds a year-round program around them. More visits, stronger tenant sales, faster leasing, and sustainability data your investors can use.

2,200+

Properties across North America, UK & Europe

600+

CRE portfolio partnerships

70+

Cities served

More visits. Stronger tenant sales.

When shoppers come back for the program, they spend time in front of your tenants.

Les principaux portefeuilles nous font confiance

When tenant sales are healthy, renewals take care of themselves.

Foot traffic is the upstream metric in retail. Everything else (tenant sales, renewals, occupancy) flows from how often shoppers choose to come to your center over the one down the road. Alvéole gives them a reason to choose yours: a working beehive, seasonal programming, and events that bring people in throughout the year.
We manage the whole program. Your marketing team gets ready-to-use content, your leasing team gets a visible differentiator, and your portfolio gets documented sustainability data. None of it creates extra work for your on-site teams.
The challenges

What comes up when you manage retail portfolios

Soft tenant sales, vacant units, centers that look like every other center, marketing teams stretched too thin, and investors asking harder sustainability questions. These are the five things we hear most from retail property teams.

Tenant sales & renewals

Alvéole runs recurring on-site programming — beekeeper visits, honey harvests, workshops, seasonal activations — that give people a specific reason to come to the center. More visits means more time in front of your tenants, which shows up in their sales figures. When tenant sales are healthy, renewal conversations are a lot easier.

Vacant space

A live beehive and an active programming calendar make the property feel curated and occupied during leasing tours, not just a building with empty units. Alvéole gives your leasing team a concrete answer to "what makes this center different?" — one they can point to, not just describe.

Standing out

A rooftop beehive and pollinator garden at the entrance isn't something the center down the road has. Alvéole creates a distinct identity tied to the place, something shoppers photograph, talk about, and come back for. That's a lot harder for a competitor to replicate than a food court renovation or a new anchor tenant.

Marketing team capacity

Alvéole comes with a ready-to-use marketing toolkit built around each property's programming calendar: photos, social content, event copy, and signage. Your team can post, promote, and communicate without starting from a blank page. When a honey harvest or beekeeper visit is happening, the content is already there.

Sustainability reporting

Alvéole tracks biodiversity and community engagement data by property and delivers reports aligned to GRESB, CSRD, and TNFD. You go into investor conversations with pollinator counts, participation rates, and environmental impact figures — not a pledge about what you plan to do.

What You Get

What the program actually delivers

Foot Traffic & Tenant Sales

Recurring events bring shoppers back throughout the year.More visits means more time in front of tenants, which shows up where it counts.

Leasing Differentiation

A live hive and an active event calendar give prospective tenants a concrete reason to choose your center. Something real to point to, not just a promise.

Ready-to-Use Marketing

Photos, social content, and event copy built around your property's programming calendar. Your marketing team promotes — they don't build from scratch.

Sustainability Reporting

Biodiversity and engagement data aligned to GRESB, CSRD, and TNFD. Real numbers for investor conversations, not just a commitment on paper.

The Program

Everything included, fully managed across your communities

Rooftop Beehives and Pollinator Gardens

Installed and maintained by our beekeepers on rooftops or at property entrances. Visible from the outside and a natural draw for shoppers who notice something different.

Year-Round Public Events and Activations

Beekeeper visits, honey harvests, workshops, and seasonal programming. We plan, organize, and run them. Your on-site team shows up if they want to.

Engagement Platform (MyHive)

A digital hub where shoppers and tenants follow the hive, sign up for events, and stay connected to the property between visits.
Integrates with your existing property app.

Branded Honey Jars

Custom-labeled honey from your property's hive. Used at events, during leasing tours, and as gifts for retail tenants. Something tangible that carries the property's name.

Marketing Toolkit

Photos, social content, event copy, and signage built around your programming calendar. Ready to use from day one, updated for each activation throughout the year.

Biodiversity Data and Sustainability Reporting

Participation rates, pollinator counts, and environmental impact data by property, formatted for GRESB, CSRD, TNFD, and investor reporting.

No extra work for your team.

Alvéole handles setup, operations, events, and reporting across every site in your portfolio.

Scale

Consistent across every building in your portfolio

Multifamily portfolios can span dozens or hundreds of buildings across different markets. Alvéole runs the same program at all of them, adapting to each building's layout while keeping operations, reporting, and the resident experience consistent. You don't manage it building by building. We do.

70+

Cities across the US, Canada, UK, and Europe

2,200+

Properties under management

600+

CRE portfolio partnerships including Brookfield, Nuveen,BGO & Hines

94%

Resident satisfaction rate across Alvéole properties

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