As the recession has taken a number of established store chains off the U.S. retail landscape, the remaining gap has created an opportunity for entrepreneurial new businesses to come in and take their place. One potential future market leader wil...

At a time when securing any kind of financing can be difficult, one entrepreneur in downtown Philadelphia cobbled together an innovative financing package combining city funds with private capital to enable a novel retail concept to get off the g...

In a market teeming with data providers, some try to distinguish themselves by focusing on niche aspects of marketing and site selection—for example, daytime populations or existing store performance reviews. Geoscape, a Miami-based data resour...

While total investment sales activity in the retail real estate sector remains slow, single-tenant net lease deals are picking up steam, according to industry insiders. The lower price tags associated with single-tenant properties have translat...

David Simon doesn't like to take no for an answer. The chairman and CEO of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group didn't grow his company into the nation's largest public real estate firm, with 382 properties, by being a shrinking violet. Simon...

As the employment picture stabilizes and the stock market posts moderate gains, consumers that have denied themselves all indulgences for the past two years are starting to come back into stores, new data suggests...

For the second year in a row, the top owners and managers of retail real estate in the United States did little to change their portfolios. In fact, the amount of space controlled by the top 10 owners of retail real estate fell slightly in 2009...