Stirling Properties broke ground for the Stirling Lafayette Shopping Center, a 450,000-square-foot retail development in Covington, La., just north of New Orleans. The center is scheduled for completion in the fall 2008...

Forest City Ratner's controversial 22-acre Atlantic Yards mixed-use project in the heart of downtown Brooklyn overcame two major hurdles in December when it got approvals from the Empire State Development Corporation, New York's economic...

The holiday shopping season limped across the finish line last week. When the final numbers are tallied, it looks like retailers will rack up about a 2.75 percent gain in same-store sales—far off the 3 percent to 7.5 percent many experts predicted...

The aisles at home improvement giants Home Depot and Lowe’s are featuring a lot of items you probably wouldn’t expect. This year, they’re stocking shelves with plasma televisions, digital cameras, and even Christmas CDs...

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, the largest Canadian REIT, is joining the move by Canadian investors into the U.S. market. The Toronto-based company is launching a $1.5 billion joint venture with Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, which owns...

Forest City Ratner’s controversial 22-acre Atlantic Yards mixed-use project in the heart of downtown Brooklyn cleared another hurdle last week. On Dec. 8, the Empire State Development Corporation, New York’s economic development agency, approved...

After a bit of arm-twisting from Gazit-Globe Ltd., the Mills Corp. announced new nominations to its board of directors on Tuesday, to be approved at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Dec. 29. The decision is the result of a settlement...

You say po-tay-toe, I say puh-tah-toe. In the past few years, as the idea of mixed-use development has gained cachet among investors, developers have thrown around the term pretty loosely. To counter that, a panel of experts at the New York ICSC...

The issue of privatization—both for retailers and real estate companies—has been a dominant theme at the New York National Conference and Dealmaking, which concludes today...