It seems that Borders, the second largest bookseller in the U.S. and currently a company that's struggling to stay afloat, has hit on an interesting new strategy in its efforts to turn itself around--it no longer wants to be identified primarily...
Simon Property Group CEO David Simon is not one of those real estate executives that is exactly effusive with the media or in appearing on public panels. NREI interviewed Simon for a cover story a few months back. But the story is notable exactly...
I attended Argyle Executive Forum's 2010 Leadership in Retail and Consumer Goods Forum yesterday. I posted update to the Retail Traffic Twitter before my Droid's battery decided to quit on me a couple hours in. ...
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investor Services produced its National Retail Outlook for the third quarter and one chart in particular jumped out at me--something called the Retail Expansion Potential Index. ...
Remember all the talk about commercial real estate being the next shoe to drop? Based on recent statistics, that fear might have been overblown. The CoStar Group reports that delinquencies on commercial real estate loans started to subside in the...
Now that Burger King has agreed to sell itself to 3G Capital for $3.3 billion, retail industry insiders are collectively scratching their heads as to what might have prompted the Brazilian-backed private equity player to bet its money on such a...
One of the biggest questions of this era in the retail real estate industry might be whether the Xanadu Meadowlands project in the New Jersey Meadowlands ever gets built. The project, an ambitious undertaking combining a sports and entertainment...
In results that came in stronger than many expected, same-store sales rose in August by more than 3 percent. The results are especially surprising since people just a few days ago were saying the back-to-school shopping season was turning into a...
Private equity deals appear to be coming back in vogue in the retail sector. Earlier today, The Street reported that Burger King has been discussing buyout possibilities with several private equity players. In the past two years, the chain has...
