Over the past several years, the Fresh Market has added 15 to 25 new stores per year. In 1985, the firm opened its first store outside of its home state in Greenville, S.C., and in the early 1990s, it expanded into Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia...
Throughout his 35 years as a developer, Robert Stark has masterminded neighborhood shopping centers of various sizes. But the president of Cleveland-based Stark Enterprises has shifted the rudder at his firm. From now on, Stark pledges the company...
Canadians don't like everything about the United States, but they do love the lower prices. With the Canadian dollar, or Loonie, hitting a high of $1.10 US in November, then leveling off at about par with the dollar for the first time since the...
U.S. CMBS delinquencies rose in March by a measly 3 basis points bringing the delinquency rate to a still microscopic 0.33 percent. So far, commercial real estate has been weathering the credit crunch quite well. There's belief in the market that...
It's been almost a year since the retail REIT sector saw a significant merger or acquisition, but one may soon be in the works between Inland American Real Estate Trust, Inc. and Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust. On Apr. 7, Oak Brook, Ill.-based...
A handful of investors, in April grabbed their wallets and began shopping for retail real estate in the U.S., ready to pump billions of dollars into a parched market…if the price is right...