Shopping Center Industry Fundamentally Sound
NEW YORK - Despite the subprime mortgage crisis and national fears about recession, the shopping center industry remains sound, and holiday sales are expected to increase by 2.5% over 2006 sales...
Chicago's West Loop Upgrade Spurs Retail Overhaul
Presidential Towers, a $470 million apartment development located in a once-derelict section of Chicago's West Loop, will undergo a major retail renovation....
Consumers Finally Take a Breather
For the last several years consumers defied economists' expectations and kept raising their level of spending despite rising energy prices. But predictions...
Brazil's Churning Economy Beckons Investors
When Tom Shapiro, president of GoldenTree InSite Partners, a global real estate investment firm, boarded a 10 p.m. flight from New York City to Sao Paulo...
Retail Condo Sales Gain Traction
From the street, the brand-new Point Berkeley in Duluth, Ga., a suburb north of Atlanta, looks like any other neighborhood shopping center. The 217,000...
Is Retail Inextricably Tied to Housing?
While sales at home improvement chains such as Home Depot are taking a beating in the wake of the housing slump, the retail market as a whole continues...
Loan Delinquency Spike Raises Red Flag
Rating agencies have been sounding alarm bells over aggressive underwriting in commercial mortgage-backed securities for more than a year, but until recently...
Bigger is Better for Outlet Malls
At 750,000 sq. ft. and 130 stores, the Prime Outlets San Marcos is a far cry from the factory outlet centers that hawked irregular goods from remote roadsides...
The Densification of Shopping Centers
At the beginning of this decade the nation's largest shopping center owners were in a race to pump up their portfolios, acquiring assets at a breathtaking...
Top 25 Shopping Center Owners
The Top Shopping Center Owners ranking originally appeared in sister publication Retail Traffic. The listing is based on total retail GLA owned as of...
PRIVATE EQUITY'S COSTLY SHOPPING SPREE
Private equity funds have hoarded companies in just about every industry in a frenzied leveraged buyout spree that started early this decade and has yet to subside....
Now Showing: Movie Theater Expansion, Part II
Last June, Harkins Theatres, an Arizona-based movie theater chain, made its debut in California, opening with a state-of-the-art, 16-screen cinema complex in a mall in Moreno Valley....
Green Design Goes Mainstream
Even the mainstream media has noticed the revolution in green building, but when the subject comes up, flashy office projects tend to get the attention....
Site Selection: The Secret Sauce
Marco's Pizza is hungry for a bigger slice of the $37 billion U.S. pizza industry. By the end of 2011, the Toledo, Ohio-based chain of pizza restaurants plans to operate 1,500 store locations in 40 states....
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