A study to find out what motivates international retailers to expand to new markets or not provides insights to the real estate opportunities and challenges emerging markets can offer. The survey, conducted by Los Angeles-based CB Richard Ellis...
Executives at Simon Property Group during a recent earnings call said the firm was delaying construction on some of its projects because of the weak sales climate. Instead, it seems to be opting to spend on redevelopment. It recently announced...
In just a few months, residents in Sonoma County, Calif., will have a new place to shop for fresh and organic foods — a Whole Foods Market. That, in and of itself, isn't unusual. After all, Whole Foods is opening about 20 stores a year. But what...
Denver merchant Vicki Raichart is perplexed. With just three months until the Democratic National Convention, Raichart is unsure how to prepare for the thousands of political junkies, staffers and journalists who will descend upon the Mile High...
Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. has formed a joint venture partnership with Colonial First State Property Management, Australia's largest full-service retail real estate firm, to capitalize on tremendous retail growth opportunities in emerging Asian...
Westfield Group, an Australian-based mall operator, is adding a $240 million three-story, 400,000-square-foot indoor lifestyle retail component to its popular Westfield Southcenter mall in Seattle to accommodate a collection of new and established...
Real estate brokers had hoped the steep decline in investment sales of retail properties in the last quarter of 2007 was a temporary setback. Now it's well into the second quarter of 2008 and little has changed...
A full pipeline needs cash and Weingarten Realty Investors of Houston gained some with a March recapitalization. Weingarten and AEW Capital Management L.P. of Boston brought an unidentified major institutional client into a joint venture to...
Seemingly since the fall there has been an ongoing debate waged on the question of whether the U.S. economy is merely in a slowdown or if it has entered a full-fledged recession. My question: Does it really matter...
At a time when many developers are postponing their pipelines, a company out of North Carolina is pressing ahead with a project that would put the Mall of America to shame. Cataloochee Companies LLC, a Clyde, N.C.-based developer, plans to break...
