For years, menswear retailers watched helplessly as sales declined. Between dress-down workplace dress codes and the male aversion to recreational shopping, it was difficult to generate traffic in men's specialty...
This month, I decided to take a detour into cyberspace where — despite the dot.com bomb — online shopping is still going strong. I found out just how strong during a recent gift-buying spree that also showed some...
First, it was luxury dorms that lured the best and brightest students. The next step, naturally, is to add retail for these upscale consumers — something that goes way beyond the old campus book store. Colleges across...
In the retail real estate business, we tend to think of Las Vegas as the site of the ICSC marathon every May. But it's the fastest growing city in the nation and, increasingly, a place where upscale retailers and...
Clearly, it was the wrong week for me to resume my Atkins diet. Here we are in Las Vegas, attending the mammoth ICSC Spring convention and, as usual, the biggest lines were over in the food franchisors corner. From...
In the 1980s, Providence was a textbook case of urban decay. What a century earlier had been a thriving seafaring and manufacturing town, was rotting at its core. Things began to change with an urban renewal project...
Without much effort, Queens Center pulled in $953 a square foot last year — three times the industry average. Its 315-seat food court did more than $10 million in sales, or $32,000 per seat. And that's in a small...
You’ve just missed the 7:30 to Scarsdale and have to wait a half hour for the next train. In the old days, you could have grabbed some coffee and a bagel or maybe slipped into the Oyster bar for a quick one. These...
You’ve just missed the 7:30 to Scarsdale and have to wait a half hour for the next train. In the old days, you could have grabbed some coffee and a bagel or maybe slipped into the Oyster bar for a quick one. These...
You’ve just missed the 7:30 to Scarsdale and have to wait a half hour for the next train. In the old days, you could have grabbed some coffee and a bagel or maybe slipped into the Oyster bar for a quick one. These...
