Expertly blending design vision and functionality, GreenbergFarrow successfully overcomes the complicated jungle of infrastructure, existing buildings, access, circulation and other issues that are often associated with any urban retail or mixed...
The back-to-school shopping season was not even over before some retailers came forward to temper expectations about the upcoming holiday shopping season. Big names like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and Ross Stores, have warned that the...
CMH principal Everett Hatcher points to Bayer Properties' The Summit in Birmingham, as a turning point for his firm, “When we designed The Summit in the mid-1990s, many of the upper-tier retailers had never gone into an open-air center,” he says...
The focus of today's retail development continues to be the shopper's experience. How to make that experience impactful, unique, lasting and relevant to the customer's life is at the center of quality retail design...
Rachael Weinberg has her heart set on a career in retail real estate, having started her term in the management trainee program at Developers Diversified Realty Corp. a Beachwood, Ohio-based REIT with a 117-million-square-foot portfolio. There...
A new generation of mixed-use sustainability is emerging and advancing well beyond traditional practices of technology, materials, recycling, energy reduction and improvements in mechanical and electrical standards. The advent of a new trend...
Amid bad news at home (same-store sales were up only 1.2 percent in the second quarter of 2007, compared to 1.5 percent during the same period last year), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. got a bit of a pick-me-up from its international division...
Meridian Capital Group arranged a $33 million loan for Oak Tree Shopping Center, a 190,000-sq.-ft. retail property in Edison, N.J. The loan featured a 10-year, interest-only term. Israel Schubert and Ray Pinner, of Meridian Capital, negotiated...
