The Sopranos and Sex and the City solidified New York's Silvercup Studios' fame as a state-of-the art production facility. Now developer brothers Alan Suna and Stuart March Suna plan an adjacent 2-million-square-foot mixed-used retail, residential...
Gadzooks isn't interested in guys anymore. The 425-store teen accessories and apparel chain, which saw first quarter same-store sales fall 10.6 percent, is eliminating its men's merchandise and introducing a female-only concept. The process, to be...
Wal-Mart and Target are American icons. Both were born in 1962; Target in urban Minneapolis and Wal-Mart in the tiny town of Bentonville, Ark. For four decades, they have eaten away at the dominance of department stores in American retailing — so...
Space is a big concern in New England. Because of the lack of it, Newbury Street in Boston is able to command rents from $70 a square foot to more than $150 a square foot, putting it on the level of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Stanley Sidel...
Craig Trottier joined Indianapolis-based Lauth Property Group as vice president, director of development. Trottier, who has been responsible for developing more than 2.5 million square feet of shopping space in the western United States, was...
If you paraphrase Kenneth Wong's philosophies of architecture, shopping centers and the Internet, they all seem to boil down to this: Content creates destinations — magnets for people and their dollars...
Architects and urban planners have been effusive in their praise of "New Urbanist" mixed-use projects. They are seen as the perfect antidote to the bland, cookie-cutter developments that have spread across America-along with the interstates and...
A dwindling number of retail construction projects is forcing many contractors to rethink the way they do business. According to Marcus & Millichap, retail starts and completions are expected to drop 30 percent in 2003, as retailers scale back...
Italian retailer Miss Sixty is attracting L.A. clotheshorses to its first West Coast store, a 3,000-square-foot space in Costa Mesa's upscale South Coast Plaza. Created by Borruso & Alessandro Design of Venice, Calif., the futuristic shop...
