History

Building on a vision. For nearly two decades, Poag & McEwen Lifestyle Centers has been committed to developing, leasing, and managing some of the country’s finest retail centers. Each serves a growing and affluent community as the primary center for quality shopping and dining. Our projects have gained national prominence within the industry for their distinctive tenant mix, outstanding performance, visual appeal, and design quality.

We coined the term “Lifestyle Center” to describe our vision – a vision seen by Dan Poag through his own personal shopping experiences. With a background in strip center development, Poag knew shoppers liked the convenience of easily accessible stores. Combined with this known fact, Poag added better retailers, superior architecture and an inviting environment into his idea creating a defining mark in the retail real estate industry.

To assist in carrying out this vision, Poag partnered with Terry McEwen, a highly recognized leasing industry executive, to form Poag & McEwen Lifestyle Centers. Initially, while strategically building the foundation for this new shopping alternative, the two managed and leased a number of strip centers already owned by Poag. The partners eventually dissolved all other interests to focus solely on the lifestyle center concept.

The Shops of Saddle Creek developed in 1987 by Dan Poag and Terry McEwen in Memphis (Germantown), TN was our company’s first fully conceived Lifestyle Center. Today, our portfolio includes eleven Lifestyle Center developments and continues to be led by the expertise and innovative spirit of our company’s founders as well as a supporting team of some of the industry’s most outstanding executives."