Lord & Taylor celebrated Fashion Week with an homage to fashion city's style. In a series of windows, the Fifth Avenue store showed glittery gowns against a backdrop of glittery New York skyscrapers. In this display, gowns by Victoria Royal...

“Target used to be the No.1 discounter among teen girls, but Wal-Mart's push into the apparel and accessories market has driven them to the top of the rankings.” — Michael Wood, vice president, Teenage Research Unlimited

When retail location strategies turn from slow- or no-growth to hyper-growth, real estate departments must ramp up quickly. The shift to full speed may be due to the launch of a new concept, the revitalization of an old one or a decision to...

The Container Store opened its first D.C. location March 6 in a 26,000-square-foot space in the former Sears/Hechinger building on Wisconsin Avenue. Roadside Development is overseeing the $95 million mixed use renovation project, which also...

Gift registries aren't just for weddings anymore. The Galleria in Edina, Minn., rolled out a mall-wide registry that lets individuals create a wish list of gifts from 40 stores. Shoppers can access it for any occasion all year long. (For more on...

Richmond, Va.'s retail has turned the corner. Until six months ago, consumers looking for more than a mundane shopping experience had to travel 100 miles north to the Washington, D.C., area or fly even farther to New York...

Inland Real Estate Corporation, which sponsors several private REITs, is now seeking to list on the New York Stock Exchange. The retail REIT owns 138 properties with a total of 12 million square feet of retail space in the Midwestern United States...

Attempting to clean up its image and stabilize growth after more than a year of same-store sales declines, Abercrombie & Fitch plans to raise prices and open a new type of store targeting sophisticated females...

Recent predictions that Winn-Dixie might not bounce back from six months of disappointing sales and stiff competition from Wal-Mart and Publix are starting to fall into place. On Jan. 30, the Jacksonville-Fla.-based grocery chain reported a 6...