Retail real estate developers have largely avoided adopting green building standards, but a trio of companies — Pyramid Cos., Archon Group L.P. and Forest City Enterprises — are setting examples that the Green Building Council and the...
Phoenix and Las Vegas are the fastest growing markets in the Southwest, but residents are also pushing further east, leading to new development in New Mexico...
Sprawl and “smart growth” emerged as hot-button topics for retail real estate developers in the late 1990s. Municipalities struggled to balance the desire for continued economic development against growing angst about traffic jams and monotonous...
Drug store operator Rite Aid's $3.4 — billion proposed acquisition of 337 Brooks and 1,521 Eckerd stores is a bold bid to catch industry leaders CVS and Walgreen's — and that could be good news for net lease investors...
When U.K. supermarket operator Tesco PLC announced in February that it would invest $472 million a year to establish a beachhead in the U.S., it tried to allay fears that it would further complicate the Darwinian struggle in the supermarket...
A little more than a year after a trio of investors bought the struggling Toys ‘R’ Us chain for $6.6 billion, they have made their long-anticipated move to squeeze some value from the company’s real estate assets...
Faced with threats of boycotts by both Target and Wal-Mart, Chicago has backed away from a plan that would have mandated a "living wage" for employees of big box stores. On Wednesday, the city council voted to sustain Mayor Richard M. Daley's Sept...
