Tenant-in-common sponsors encounter higher debt costs and declining demand.

Suddenly, development doesn't seem like quite the safe bet that it did at the beginning of the year for retail REITs...

Faced with lower yields in the U.S., Beachwood, Ohio-based Developers Diversified Realty Corp. has entered a joint venture to develop a project in Toronto, fueling speculation that the REIT may be planning a larger push into Canada...

One of the defining trends of the retail industry in the past decade has been a great hollowing out of the middle. Mid-tier chains have struggled or disappeared entirely. Discounters--exemplified by Wal-Mart--have thrived at one end of the...

Columbus-based Steiner + Associates, noted for being the team behind the influential Easton Town Center, has brought its act to Glendale, Wis. There the firm is bringing the 1.2-million-square-foot Bayshore project to the suburb of Milwaukee. The...

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Minneapolis-St. Paul has had better days than many of its other Midwestern counterparts. The Twin Cities, whose population is about 3.5 million people, had an unemployment rate of 4 percent in July, among the lowest in the nation...

Grand Rapids, located in the western section of Michigan, is doing better than cities in the eastern part of the state. The second largest city in the state, Grand Rapids' economy had been fueled by the automobile and office furniture...

Over the past few years the U.S. coasts have been hammered by hurricanes while the Midwest escaped disaster. In August that changed. The Midwest region sustained severe property damage from a huge storm system that dumped more than 15 inches of...