Ask a leasing head for the stacking plan and you will usually get a slide exported some weeks ago. It shows which unit is which, roughly who is in it, and nothing else. The version that changes outcomes is the same map bound live to the lease register — every floor, zone and unit, colored by whatever question you are asking: occupancy, category mix, lease expiry, trading density.
The questions a live plan answers instantly
- Expiry concentration: a rolling 24-month expiry ladder over the map shows the corridor where four leases lapse the same quarter — renewals become a program, not a scramble.
- Exclusivity and radius exposure: before an offer letter goes out, the system should warn that the proposed brand conflicts with an exclusivity clause three units away. After signing is too late.
- Zone performance: sales per square foot by zone and floor tells you which corridor supports a rent push and which needs curation, footfall work or a different category.
- Unit history: splits, merges and re-measurements preserved over time, so any past bill can be reconstructed against the unit as it existed then.
From enquiry to trading, on the same record
The plan earns its keep when the deal pipeline runs through it: enquiry, brand qualification, offer, commercial approvals with deviation control, agreement with e-signature, fit-out, handover, trading commencement. Two details matter more than they look. First, approvals with deviation control — a deal below the corridor's rate card should route for sign-off automatically. Second, the turnover-rent clock starting at trading commencement, captured as a fact by the handover workflow rather than remembered by whoever was on shift.
This is how CuroCentral treats leasing: the stacking plan is the front end of the lease register, and everything downstream — billing, the store directory, the tenant portal — reads the same record. When the map is data, vacancy is something you see coming.