In a relatively short time gift cards — replacing gift certificates of old — have grown to be an $80 billion business. The vast majority of cards are store-branded. Retailers ranging from Gap to Bed Bath & Beyond sell the store-branded cards...

Despite having no lack of colorful characters, the retail real estate industry has been shorted when it comes to business publishing. While you can find biographies of past banking tycoons, steel giants and research histories of numerous...

The largest privately owned regional mall portfolio in seven years may be about to hit the market. The Pyramid Companies, a Syracuse, N.Y.-based privately held developer, which owned 19.5 million square feet of retail space as of April 2006, said...

It's not your grandfather's senior center...

Oakbrook, Ill.-based REIT Inland Real Estate Corp. and North-brook, Ill.-based Pine Tree Institutional Realty, LLC are forming a joint venture to develop shopping centers in the midwestern United States. Over the next four years, the partnership...

They boast art museums, sports stadiums, airports, public parks, a 24/7 rapid transit system and a collective population of more than 4.7 million. Yet when it comes to retail, New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are off the map. The...

Sam Zell (fresh out of the REIT game after the sale of Equity Office Properties to Blackstone Group), told the crowd at a REIT symposium that commercial real estate had two more good years in it before trouble hits. “We've never seen numbers as...

Last June, Harkins Theatres, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based chain of movie theaters, landed for the first time in California, opening a state-of-the-art 16-screen cinema complex in a mall in Moreno Valley. Harkins' arrival led to the closure of an...

You many not have heard of Collin County, Texas, yet, but you will soon. The 885-square-mile area located in northeastern Texas includes three of the eight top cities with the fastest job growth between 2000 and 2005, according to Money magazine...

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