On Oct. 5, Kohl's Corp. opened 65 new stores. The following day, J.C. Penney Corp. opened 20 new locations of its own. In both cases, the moves represented company records for the largest one-day rollout. And, it underscored how the two chains are...
Office supplies giant Staples, Inc. has beaten the competition, topping rivals Office Depot and OfficeMax to become the largest office supplies retailer. So the company management has set its sights on new competition: Kinko's...
Puma, maker of sneakers, sportswear and fashion apparel, has unveiled a redesign with a new 5,300-square-foot flagship in New York City's Union Square that opened in early October...
Steiner + Associates opened phase one of the Greene, a 1.1-million-square-foot urban town center in Beaver Creek, Oh. When completed, the $186 million project will contain a mix of retail, residential, office, restaurant and entertainment uses...
With the growing popularity of so-called super premium ice cream chains like Cold Stone Creamery, Marble Slab and MaggieMoo's, more established chains like Häagen-Dazs and Baskin-Robbins are being forced to adapt. Most recently, 63-year-old Baskin...
British luxury kitchen cabinetmaker Smallbone of Devizes has crossed the Atlantic and opened its first U.S. location on Manhattan's Upper East Side. IBEX Construction, a New York-based firm specializing in high-end retail, corporate and...
In early October, Mills Corp. CEO Laurence (Larry) C. Siegel — the man who has presided over Mills for 11 years and was expected to exit when the new owners materialized — announced plans to relinquish the CEO title, but remain as non-executive...
Americans armed with more cash to spend due to falling gas prices are expected to pump it back into shopping malls, bolstering projections for the holiday shopping season...
ICSC, which already offers designations for mall managers, leasing specialists and marketing professionals, will add a new certification in 2008 aimed at the retail real estate industry's development, design and construction professionals...
