The Editor's Letter Welcome to Retail Traffic’s first ever Annual Review of Retail Architecture. Here you will find thoughts, ideas, project examples and more examining the past, present and future of retail design...
Looking for a sign that this year's holiday shopping season will be slow? Check the back-to-school numbers. With about two weeks to go in the eight-week long season (the second most important of the year for retailers), all indications are that...
Jeffrey Packard, an assistant vice president with life insurance company John Hancock, which does about $2 billion in commercial mortgage lending, has been waiting for this moment for four years. The rise of CMBS lenders has radically altered the...
In the face of pedestrian retail sales and crashing stock prices, four of the eight regional mall REITs delivered solid second quarter results. The most successful firms — those with portfolios in high-barrier-to-entry markets with strong...
A joint venture of KOAR Wilshire Western LLC and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is developing a project that will provide a two-way street to and from the Korean retail market and serve as a catalyst for neighborhood...
Westfield is planning to build a third mall in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley between two it already owns on Topanga Boulevard in Woodland Hills. Unlike the neighboring Westfield malls, the new Westfield Village at Topanga is designed on a...