If you like Lucille Roberts or Curves, then you may want to purchase your lycra shorts at Paiva (pronounced pie-va). The new specialty chain, which opened its first two stores in April at Barton Square Creek in Austin, Texas and Natick Mall in...
Baseball-size hail damaged about 1,000 cars during a violent storm in San Marcos, Tex., in April, with most of the smashed windows and dented metal at the Tanger and Prime outlet malls there. “It sounded like gunfire,” a shopper told a local paper.
Good enough to eat: Our judges were transfixed by the prototype for Au Bon Pain's new suburban outposts. (Was that a stomach growling?) Architects Sasaki Associates created energy in the space by dividing self-serve functions into several stations...
Dollar Tree Stores Inc. completed the $55.7 million acquisition of 138 stores and related assets of the Deal$-Nothing Over a Dollar chain, which was owned by Supervalue Inc. Dollar Tree acquired store assets, leasehold rights and inventory. The...
Two years ago, when retail REITs experienced a huge wave of consolidation, firms caught in the middle faced a choice: Eat or be eaten. Today, the decision is far more appetizing...
One panelist remarked, “I've never been in a grocery store that elegant.” Another: “They managed to turn food into fashion.” When Pavlik Design Team was commissioned by Galleria Department Store to remodel its basement supermarket, it looked to...
The closure of a 250,000-square-foot department store at Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Center prompted a $43 million total renovation. Emulating the authentic outdoor shopping experiences of a Michigan Avenue (or, on more local turf, Bloor Street)...
Continental Retail Development sold $140 million in assets to Inland Real Estate Inc. The assets sold in the transaction included the 180,000-square-foot Clifty Crossing power center in Columbus, Ind., the 209,000-square-foot Market at Polaris and...
While capital from around the globe is flowing into U.S. commercial real estate, not all foreign investors are big fans of retail. In fact, Australia alone accounted for 84 percent of retail dollars in 2005...
Baby Boomers, many of whom remember the drug culture of their youth, are still into pill popping — but this time it's the meds of the prescription variety...
