John McCloud

Dorsky Hodgson + Partners has been a leader in retail design ever since William Dorsky founded the firm 38 years ago. Among its first commissions was the design of a shopping center for Melvin Simon & Associates...

Last year the Simon Property Group celebrated the opening of The Shops at Mission Viejo, a project that entailed the redevelopment and expansion of Mission Viejo Mall in the Southern California community of Mission...

in one of the seminal design-related books of the past half-century, architect Robert Venturi extolled the notion of "Learning from Las Vegas." One of the major lessons to be learned, he maintained, was that...

In the 1990s, dry cleaners became the retail tenants landlords loved to hate. And for good reason: research showed that perchloroethylene, the primary solvent used by the dry cleaning industry, was a dangerous...

A decade ago, the number of mixed-use retail projects was relatively small and the format limited. Typical projects were either high-rise office buildings with a retail podium or regional malls with some combination...

Although Village Green Cos. consists of four distinct business entities, its responsibilities can be summed up in a single, straightforward phrase: "We rent apartments." The Farmington Hills, Mich.-based company makes...

The 21st century begins on a note of irony for the retail industry. As the world moves forward with complex technologies undreamed of 100 years ago, one of the biggest trends is a return to the kind of shopping...

For a long time Californians looked on San Diego as little more than a Navy town, and the towns north of it as a series of beach retreats and retirement villages. No longer. The city, now the second-largest in the...