In October, discount retailer Filene's Basement signed a lease in downtown Baltimore's Lockwood Place; the 30,000-square-foot store was set to debut late March. In January, the SuperFresh grocery chain, owned by the Great Atlantic & Pacific...
The outlook for retail just got a little cloudier. The one-two punch of the meltdown in the sub-prime mortgage market coupled with slower-than-expected retail sales growth has some economists wondering where the retail sector is going...
George Smith Partners arranged $210 million in construction financing for the development of Anaheim Garden Walk, a 439,600-square-foot retail and entertainment center in Anaheim, Calif. The project, the result of a partnership between Excel...
After the holiday sales are over and year-end earnings tallied, veterans of retail real estate brace for the first-quarter fallout. This is the time of year when retailers that didn't hit their targets announce bankruptcies and store closings. It...
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. and Pathmark Stores, Inc. reached a $1.3 billion definitive merger agreement in which A&P will acquire Pathmark. The deal will result in a 550-unit, $11 billion supermarket chain operating in...
With the rising popularity of mixed-use projects, some developers are betting that the aging of the U.S. population will create a demand for senior-themed mixed-use centers...
The outlook for retail just got a little cloudier. The one-two punch of the meltdown in the sub-prime mortgage market coupled with slower-than expected retail sales growth has some economists wondering where the retail sector is going...
You’d think that Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.’s proposed $7.3 billion acquisition of Dollar General Corp.—the second largest leveraged-buyout in retail since 2004—would have a potentially huge impact on strip center REITs, especially...
Slowly but surely, retail developers are readying to rebuild the ravaged Gulf Coast that is taking steps to rebound from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...