South Florida's rapid population growth and rising income levels bode well for retailers and shopping center developers in 2006 and 2007. CB Richard Ellis estimates that the region's population grew by 105,451 people last year alone and personal...

Animal product supplier Petco is set to join a long list of retailers being bought by private equity firms. The $2-billion-a-year operation has entered an agreement with Leonard Green & Partners LP and Texas Pacific Group for a $1.68-billion...

Limited spinoff Too Inc. is changing its name to reflect its success with its core audience — girls between the ages of 7 and 14. The company — which operates 565 Limited Too stores and 111 Justice locations — will now be known as Tween Brands Inc...

With its rapid population growth and ever-growing tourist market, Florida has been one of the hottest destinations for retail development for years. But the market has become a victim of its own success...

The heightening of violence in the Middle East in July between Israel and Hezbollah may have been the last straw for already nervous American consumers...

The official word from NRDC Equity Partners, which agreed to buy Lord & Taylor for $1.2 billion in late June, is that it will give the storied chain a badly needed makeover and move it back upscale. But the word on the street in the retail...

Rising anxieties and economic pressures are beginning to take their toll on consumer spending...

Four new states are adding sales tax holidays this year, according to CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, upping the total to 13 states and Washington, D.C. The details vary, but most states' tax holidays run during the month of August and are...

Project City Center, a mammoth $7-billion mixed-use complex that will sit on Las Vegas Boulevard, broke ground in early July. The 66-acre project is the most expensive commercial real estate development in U.S. history...

Vornado Realty Trust has snapped up a prized historic property in Boston's Downtown Crossing district: Filene's department store...