Retail brokers, shopping center owners, developers, investors and a host of other professionals have flooded into Las Vegas for the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual RECon, a networking, eductational and dealmaking event that draws 30,000 participants each year.

The frenzy of dealmaking that takes place on the Monday and Tuesday of the convention is “the Superbowl of retail,” in the words of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Jason Pruger.

Photos from the first day of the International Council of Shopping Centers’ RECon conference under way in Las Vegas.