French cosmetics and fragrance retailer Sephora, owned by troubled LVMH Moët Hennessy, has assigned the lease from its 21,000-sq.-ft. Rockefeller Center store to Façonnable. Although the swap is a successful expansion for the clothier, which is...
A college town, with all those captive consumers, may seem to be a great retail venue, but what do those Gen-Ys buy? The “360 Youth/Harris Interactive College Explorer Study” reports that America's 15.6 million college students spend $200 billion...
In the end, The Home Depot's founder Bernie Marcus saw a deal he couldn't refuse. In August, Atlanta hometown hero Coca-Cola offered his Marcus Foundation nine free acres of land it owns next to downtown Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park to locate...
San Francisco's Union Square has been a study in contrasts: while surrounded by the ritziest retailing in the city, the park's tall hedges disguised homeless squatters. And accessible only from its four corners, the park felt like a trap — until...
