The first shopping center designed by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, Westside Shopping and Leisure Center, opened in Bern, Switzerland, in early October. The mixed-use project features a mix of retail, residential and entertainment.
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Specialty apparel seller Forever 21 has its sights set on expansion. In early October, reports surfaced the retailer had made a bid for stores belonging to the department store chain Mervyns — 150 of them. The company reportedly put a bid in with...
With everything else that's happened since mid-September, Henry Paulson's bailout proposal, which grew from a three-page memo to a 450-page monstrosity, has almost become an afterthought. After lobbying hard and eventually winning approval of a...
CROSS Development will build Prosper Plaza, a 355,000-sq.-ft. retail center in Prosper, Texas...
Even as the U.S. struggles through a severe housing slump, a weak economy and a financial crisis, LNR Property Corp.'s Commercial Property Group and Hopkins Real Estate Group have started construction on an $850 million mixed-use project in Carson...
For most retailers, a slowing economy characterized by inflation, unemployment and a lack of consumer confidence spells big trouble. But for at least one sector in the retail world, those aren't such bad signs. Although they haven't been...