Behind the storefront of the Michele Varian boutique in Soho lies a store within a store. Past the shop’s collection of industrial-chic lamps, brightly colored throw pillows and quirky design items, fellow Soho designer Melissa Joy Manning runs her eponymous jewelry boutique underneath a skylight at the rear of the roughly 2,000-square-foot sales floor at 27 Howard Street. The space-sharing arrangement, which in the world of retail real estate is usually referred to as a […] The post How the Airbnbs of retail are growing in a pillowy soft market appeared first on Real Estate Investor HQ.