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ChainLinks President Dies Bill Horvath, president of San Antonio-based ChainLinks, died Nov. 23 after an 11-month battle with cancer. Horvath was 53...

Bright, Shining Star Designer used GranitiFiandre's Geologica Collection to re-create Utah's big skies in Provo. How do you best represent the region when designing a regional mall? For Roger Brown, the answer was easy when he was given the task...

Question of the month: Are we bored with regional malls or just oversaturated with them? Is the current interest in Main Street retail just another fad or an alternative gathering place? Suburban malls have been under attack in the past few years...

Improved demographics in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi have piqued the interest of national retail chains in search of strong markets. The sunbelt states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi traditionally have not been at the top of the...

Participants The devil's in the detail, the adage goes, but nowadays the detail of retail has everything to do with fun and entertainment. To coincide with the recent convention held in Dallas by the International Association of Amusement Parks...

Giant IKEA comes to Midwest SCHAUMBURG, ILL. -- Chicago motorists on I-90 can't help but take notice of the mammoth, three-story, 410,000 sq. ft. structure that opened in mid-November to overflowing crowds. Bearing the bold colors of Sweden's flag...

A conversation with J. Thomas Porter and Bill Salter, two leading entertainment retail designers...

The entertainment center -- far from being a creation of the '90s -- has evolved from a simple organism to meet the needs of a changing society. How did we get from there to here? For the moment, the category on everybody's mind is entertainment...