California may be feeling more than its share of pain from the nationwide recession, but you would never know it from looking at the state's retail industry. Unemployment is at its highest level since 1996, the state has been bleeding jobs by the...
Certainly a major attraction of adding residential to retail uses is the provision of a built-in customer base. Unfortunately, convenience isn't everything. Shoppers won't necessarily go to the store down the block simply because it's there...
Years ago, a woman walked into a suburban mall in Pennsylvania and started firing a semi-automatic rifle. The individual, who later was ruled criminally insane, killed three and wounded seven. Nonetheless, a jury ruled that the woman's crime was...
“Our phones are ringing off the hook with folks who have private equity to offer,” says Lawrence Casey, chief financial officer of Donahue Schriber. And the Costa Mesa, Calif.-based real estate investment trust (REIT) isn't alone. Private equity...
Even investors who took a haircut in the market need a real haircut. That's helping make Regis Corp. one of the nation's fastest-growing hair salon chains...
Electric lighting is one of the largest single consumers of energy in shopping centers and other commercial buildings. Lighting systems also produce heat, which accounts for 15% to 20% of a building's total cooling load...
