Kyle Risdall

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I'm Kai Risdahl.

There are some challenges in retail construction right now.

Building costs and borrowing costs are both high.

There are tariffs and the trickle-down effects thereof.

The president's immigration policies are a very particular kind of headwind.

And consumers continue to buy a whole lot of their stuff online.

That is not to say, though, that there aren't some bright spots.

And a lot of them are to be found in Texas, which is seeing some significant brick-and-mortar construction, as Marketplace's Elizabeth Trovo tells us.

You've got a Target, an Academy, Ross, Burlington, you know, in a row with some kind of smaller shop retail and pads up closer to the road.

Live music is kind of having a moment.

149 shows for Taylor Swift on the Heiress Tour.

86 for Beyonce the past couple of years.

Harry Styles starts his tour this summer.

50 shows on the book so far.

And those, as you know, are just some of the biggies.

Goldman Sachs says the live music sector is going to grow 7.2% every year for the next decade.

More live events, of course, means you're going to need a whole lot more people to run those events.

Drew Millard wrote about how the industry is planning to recruit and train the next generation of roadies in Bloomberg the other day.