Materials need to be durable in the right locations and easily repairable in others. An opportunity for a drive-thru should be reviewed and can be a requirement for a variety of tenants. Easy access in and out of the parking area to the main road is critical. Larger centers can have three rows but should not have more than four. Centers under 10,000sf should have two rows of parking between the street and building. You will need to provide a restaurant with 20 stalls per 1,000sf of space. You can kill your tenants if the parking count is not balanced. Your tenant mix should be studied carefully to determine the desired parking count.
Be aware that typical zoning codes will allow fewer spaces but hitting that minimum could doom your center.
Five-to-six spaces per 1,000 sf is standard with a ratio of four of those five spaces being between the main road and the front of the center. Give me lots of parking spaces close to the doors, yet not so many spaces that they push the center back from the road. Land-to-building ratio should provide 20%-25% of your site dedicated to building. A prospective tenant cares more that it will be seen than what type of wall sconce you put on your massive stone columns. A retail center must draw attention first to the tenants and let customers know what they are selling. It is often desirable to dictate the types of signs allowed at the center.
(You can save the cute for the applied ornamentation.) Monument signs are nice, and often times extremely important to national tenants, but the building is the main billboard and should include large sign bands with plenty of real estate for tenant signage. Building configuration should be straight, simple and flexible. Tenants must be seen and they must be seen as prominently as possible.
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