General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP) is celebrating its "Iowa homecoming" today with a groundbreaking ceremony for the 200-acre, $200 million Jordan Creek Town Center located in West Des Moines. The project is expected to open August 4, 2004...

Edens & Avant and Samuels & Associates have finalized their purchase agreement for 36 Konover shopping centers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England...

The Kroger Co., based in Cincinnati, has reached an agreement to purchase 18 Raley's stores in Las Vegas. The transaction should close within 30 days...

Pittsburgh, Pa.-based Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. plans an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. According to a recent SEC filing, the company wants to issue 8.4 million shares at an estimated price of $14 to $18 a share. Dick’s...

General Growth Properties (GGP), the nation’s second-largest mall REIT, today acquired Pecanland Mall in Monroe, La., for about $72 million...

The recent merger of two Dallas-based retail services firms, United Commercial Realty (UCR) and Tricor Realty Advisors LLC, creates the largest third-party shopping center leasing and management firm in Texas. The combined portfolio of third-party...

Standard & Poor’s specialty retail equity analyst Karen Sack has some bad news for many specialty retailers in S&P’s Industry Survey on Retailing Specialty, released August 29. In it, she predicts that for the remainder of 2002, specialty...