Rapidly expanding retailers need new sites — as many, as fast and as well-located as they can get them. With the financial agility that mezzanine finance options offer, retail real estate developers are better able to meet tenants' needs. By using...

The Grand Strand is a 60-mile crescent of beach lolling along the Atlantic Ocean's coastline in South Carolina. In the center of this area known as the Grand Strand sits Myrtle Beach, a city of “Smiling Faces Beautiful Places” as the South...

Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi should take most of the credit for the interior design at Solera, Minneapolis' new restaurant and tapas bar. Shea Architects Inc. channeled key elements from Gaudi's style to create a richly textured environment...

The Orvis Co. has embarked on an aggressive bricks-and-mortar expansion that should double — to 40 percent — the contribution of retail store sales to overall revenue, says George Haskins, director of retail. The Manchester, Vt.-based sporting...

SimplexGrinnell is the industry's leading single-source provider of fire and life-safety systems and services. A business unit of Tyco Fire & Security, SimplexGrinnell has 13,000 employees, 1.3 million customers, and over 150 years of...

You see them across suburbia and our nation's heartland: Home Depot, Target, Best Buy, Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers...

The death of the mall has been greatly exaggerated. The real story is in distinguishing between super regionals, which are flourishing, and regionals, which are losing ground...

Big boxes have quite literally altered the suburban retail landscape, and changed the way we shop, but now they are the hot urban prototype. Seems like a logical next step — changing demographics, dwindling good sites out there in the ‘burbs...

Investor interest and capital flows to the single-tenant net-lease sector have skyrocketed. Many private investors are attracted to these low-maintenance investments and are targeting single-tenant net-lease properties, selling other property...

“The press really picked up on the recent vote against Wal-Mart in Inglewood, saying that Wal-Mart's doomed in California. That isn't going to happen. If anything's going to slow them down, it's getting distribution centers.” — Jim Degan...