Kevin M. Higgins is Founder and Managing Member of Oxford Street Retail Advisors, LLC. With over three decades of experience in the retail real estate industry, he brings deep expertise in strategic planning, national site selection, and leasing across all retail formats—including strip centers, regional malls, and urban high streets.
Mr. Higgins has advised a diverse portfolio of retailers, restaurants, and developers nationwide throughout his career. His broad knowledge of urban and regional retail markets enables him to deliver valuable strategic guidance on national and regional expansion initiatives, property leasing strategies, retail asset acquisitions, and complex lease negotiations.
Mr. Higgins represents several prominent national brands, including Hobby Lobby, Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH, Helly Hansen, and The Escape Game. He also serves as the national account manager for SalonCentric, a division of L’Oréal.
Prior to founding Oxford Street Retail Advisors, Mr. Higgins held senior leadership positions at several prominent real estate firms. He served as Senior Vice President and Partner at CBRE/New England, where he was consistently recognized as one of the company’s top national retail brokers. He was also a Principal at Grossman Development Group and held the Executive Vice President role at Katz & Associates. In these capacities, he led investment sales, directed national tenant expansion strategies, and managed broker networks across the West Coast and Southwest. Mr. Higgins and other senior executives at Katz advised some of the country’s leading venture capital firms on retail acquisitions and real estate strategy.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Higgins was the Real Estate Manager for the Northeast Region at Borders Group, Inc., the Director of Real Estate for Melville Realty Company/Melville Corporation (now CVS Corp), and the Vice President of Leasing and Development at The Howard Grossman Company/HG Properties. This New England-based firm developed shopping centers and provided third-party leasing to firms such as WS Development and New England Development.
Communications:
Courtney H. Bruno is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Oxford Street, leading the firm’s strategic marketing initiatives. In this role, she oversees all aspects of digital communication, website content, media relations, advertising, mapping, demographic analysis, and aerial presentations.
Courtney holds a Master of Science in Corporate and Organizational Communication with a concentration in Social Media from Northeastern University, where she graduated summa cum laude, a Bachelor’s degree in English from Suffolk University, a Paralegal Certificate from Boston University.
Kevin Higgins – Professional Affiliations / Accreditations
-Member, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
-Licensed Real Estate Broker in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Florida
-Committee Member, Oxford Real Estate Society
-Member, Oxford Entrepreneurs of New England
-Member, The Oxford and Cambridge Society of New England
-Team Ben, Best Buddies – Top fundraiser in 2016, 2017, and 2018
-Founding Member, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA
-The Higgins Studentship, Brasenose College, University of Oxford
“Kevin is one of only a few students whom I have brought back into the classroom to teach my other students.”
“It is a credit to Kevin that he chose to support my research on the Global History of Capitalism by working with an Oxford doctoral student (whom he helped to fund) to write a case study on the history of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. That case study is one of fifteen freely available to academics and the wider public at.” https://globalcapitalism.web.ox.ac.uk/case-studies
Professor Christopher D. McKenna, Fellow & Tutor, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, Reader in Business History & Strategy, Saïd Business School, Co-Director, Global History of Capitalism, Oxford Centre for Global History
Latest Education:
The University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, Post Graduate – Master’s Level Diploma in Organizational Leadership.
“The Oxford Diploma in Organisational Leadership prepares you to lead your organisation successfully through the complexities of the 21st century. A master’s-level postgraduate qualification with a distinct intellectual edge, the Diploma combines the highest standards of academic rigour with a practical approach to the study of leadership and organisational development.”
Memberships:
-Pembroke College, University of Oxford
-Pembroke College Global Alumni Ambassador
-The Oxford Union Society
-The Oxford Global History of Capitalism Project – Oxford Centre For Global History
The University of Oxford, Saïd Business School; Oxford Strategic Leadership Program. The OSLP is the flagship program at Saïd Business School, which takes a humanities approach to leadership.
Cornell University: Hotel Real Estate Investments and Asset Management: A Six-Course Program:
– Financial Analysis of Hotel Investments
– Control of Hotel Real Estate
– Developing an Asset Management Strategy
– Achieving Hotel Asset Management Objectives
– Valuing Hotel Investments Through Effective Forecasting
– Valuing Hotel Intellectual Property and Structuring the Capital Stack
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate (AMDP) – a one-year postgraduate program in Real Estate.
“Graduates of the AMDP join the ranks of one of the most exclusive real estate clubs in the world, ” Rick Peiser, Michael D. Spear Professor of Real Estate Development, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Director of the AMDP Program. “The ADMP is Transforming Industry Executives into Global Leaders. It provides the tools and vision needed by today’s leaders in the global real estate industry.”
Designed for senior executives and accomplished entrepreneurs with 15 or more years of experience in real estate or related industries, AMDP is an intensive, transformative experience. It is case method-based, highly demanding, and internationally focused.
“Long ago, Kevin was one of the most self-disciplined, broad-minded undergraduates I’ve taught here in 45 years and is a stellar alumnus. He has strong analytical abilities and is visually acute. I have been struck repeatedly by his observations of how high-trajectory, high-pressure managerial enterprise is changing in response to external forces almost unrecognized in business and other media.”
“His deep, continuous reading of history sharpens his analytical skills; his analyses of events and trends often prove prescient.” John R. Stilgoe, Robert & Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.