Headquartered in Coral Gables, Fla., Beame Architectural Partnership is a 40-person firm that for the past two decades has specialized in the design of retail and mixed-use destinations. Although each of our projects is unique in its own way...
California is not an inexpensive place to live or do business. But Sacramento remains one of the state's last bastions of affordable living. In fact, when Silicon Valley and the Bay Area were booming, a lot of consumers cashed out the equity in...
California was last to enter the nation's recession and it may be the last one out, according to predictions by economists and industry leaders. One major woe is a $38 billion budget deficit that will hurt local governments' ability to provide...
One glance at a new Main Street-inspired shopping center — complete with paved roads, park benches and public space — and it's clear: The face of retail has changed. No longer marked by sprawling regional malls, each bigger and more opulent than...
Mall of America may be a shopping icon in the United States, but Simon Property Group CEO David Simon says it is not one of the mall REIT's star properties. That honor is reserved for Las Vegas' flashy Forum Shops, which produces three times more...
Shoppers at Barney's blowout semi-annual sale (which just happens to be held in the building where Retail Traffic is based) barely noticed the blackout. After spending hours rifling through racks and racks of deeply discounted designer duds, they...
What's a guy to do when, after eight years of managing one of the industry's highest-profile portfolios of retail and entertainment properties, his firm gets out of the business? Ask Lee Wagman...
PetsMart and Michael's inked leases at L.A.'s Buena Park Downtown, a development of The Festival Cos. The two retailers will take space in Marketplace Investors' 1.2 million-square-foot Buena Park Place, the development's retail district. The...
At Dorsky Hodgson + Partners, lifestyles have always dictated design, and today's changing lifestyles demand new designs for public spaces. Lifestyle centers are emerging as an appealing solution and Dorsky Hodgson is embracing this concept of...
Omniplan Architects provides full architectural services, planning, interior design, graphic design and environmental design offering innovative solutions to the retail and entertainment markets...