When retailers call on a design firm to create a new store image, they sometimes overlook the fact that a responsive firm can be a key player in the corporate strategy to take a new retail initiative to the market...

New development Aventura, Fla. - Ground recently was broken on a new hotel and retail complex in Aventura. The 113,000 sq. ft. retail center, Champion Retail, is slated to open this summer. Tenants will include Bed Bath & Beyond, Designer Shoe...

When it comes to sales, few companies do retail better than Goldman, Sachs & Co. The Wall Street investment bank doesn't actually get behind a counter and push merchandise, but if someone wants to sell the whole mall or even a shopping cart...

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At a time when consolidation is rocking the hotel, apartment and office sectors, there have been few major mergers in retail. The retail REIT market is cluttered with about 60 different companies, many with a market cap at less than $100 million...

At a time when many retailers are overstimulating the senses to attract customers, Basin is selling soaps, bath bubblers, shampoos and lotions in a simple environment reminiscent of the Shaker period...

In case it has slipped anyone's attention, entertainment has become the key word for retail development at the tail end of the 20th century. We are being carried into the next millennium on a wave of festivity. Both shopping centers and shopping...

No one disputes that the restaurant industry is in a state of change. But is the change evolutionary or revolutionary...

New Ventures Northbrook, Ill.-based Bradley Real Estate has formed a co-development program with Oppidan Center Development LLC, an affiliate of Minneapolis-based Oppidan Inc., a developer of grocery-anchored centers. Under terms of the agreement...

CBL & Associates Properties Inc. Jerry L. Sink, SCSM, has been promoted from vice president of mall management to senior vice president of mall management for Chattanooga, Tenn.-based CBL & Associates Properties Inc. He will be responsible...