In the past, when a mall or shopping center advertised a security system, owners feared shoppers would ask if security was an issue, and actually feel less — rather than more — secure. But in the days of Orange Alerts patrons want safety and...
Mills Corp. hired Mark Ettenger, a former Goldman Sachs exec, to fill the newly created position of president and help the REIT execute its $3 billion development pipeline and acquisition strategy. Citigroup Smith Barney analyst Jonathan Litt says...
Caryn Wegerbauer is the new senior project manager of Main Street Property Services, based in Lafayette, Calif. Wegerbauer spent more than 14 years specializing in tenant and neighborhood relations, retail leasing and budget planning for RREEF...
In retail development, like politics, spin is everything. That's why developer Ben Devine found time in his busy schedule to sip cider at a Maine senior center one Saturday, pressing the flesh, explaining his controversial development proposal and...
Canadian design group DSD turned a 920-square-foot triangular space into the award-winning Bijouterie ORLY Jewelers in Quebec shopping center Le Carrefour Laval. The use of rich classic materials, including clear and sandblasted glass, stainless...
Atlanta's Phipps Plaza may once again be the high-end luxury mall it was intended to be. Owner Simon Property Group struck a deal with Nordstrom to fill the anchor space vacated by Lord & Taylor earlier this month. May Co., owner of Lord &...
Architecturally, there's nothing compelling about the common big-box structure. Like an old refrigerator, it serves a purpose. But when it becomes obsolete, someone might take it off your hands for cheap. Chances are, though, it's going to cost...
While $15,000 a year sounds pricey for a subscription to a bimonthly newsletter, many companies with customers aged eight to 24 consider Irma Zandl's Hot Sheet indispensable. Subscribers include Fisher-Price, The Disney Channel and Bath & Body...
More than 1,200 people attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the reopening of Macerich's renovated Fashion Fair mall in Fresno, Calif., in November, putting the ceremony in the Guinness Book of World Records. Participants, all of whom received a...
