Seventy-two hours before a much-hyped Spider-Man appearance at Coliseum Mall last month, a Marvel Comics promoter contacted marketing director Karen Smith with disturbing news. Due to a scheduling error, the elusive superhero couldn't make it. The...
White-knuckle gridlock, scarce green space, a booming population and dead malls in lively locales add up to one thing for retail developers in Florida — paradigm shift. The days of clearing a few acres, tapping utilities for a song and going...
Jackie Drecksel is the owner, founder and designer of Dig It! The Fossil Workshop, which was discussed in our May 2004 issue. Drecksel started the concept in Salt Lake City and is rolling it out nationwide. For more information on Dig It!, visit...
Passco Real Estate bought the 113,495 square foot Kaua'i Village Shopping Center in Hawaii from Kaua'i Village Associates for $26.9 million. The center is located in Kapaa, on the island of Kaua'i, and anchored by Safeway and Longs Drugs. It was...
Bakers Footwear Group teamed with Kiku Obata & Co. of St. Louis to develop a new prototype for trendy shoe shop Wild Pair. The first store to reflect the new design is a 1,730-square-foot space in Macerich's Queens Center in Queens, N.Y...
Forget kayaking and hiking. On any given weekend, it seems as if Maine's biggest attraction is the Maine Mall, a 1.2 million-square-foot regional built on a former pig farm 33 years ago...
The new lifestyle center at Wiregrass Ranch near Tampa will be a first step for both Forest City Enterprises and the Goodman Group. For Forest City, it's represents an initial foray into the lucrative Florida market. For Goodman, it provides entry...
When Office Depot wanted to start over again, it didn't go back to the old drawing board. Instead, it turned to the old furniture store. An abandoned furniture store slated for demolition that is — with brown paper over the windows. It was there...
Federal Realty Investment Trust is joint venturing with a fund formed by ING Clarion Partners. The new entity aims to invest $350 million in stabilized neighborhood shopping centers in California and on the East Coast in the next two years, using...
