The economic boom of the 1990s left the nation's retail industry with a shopping hangover — consumers spent themselves into a frenzy and developers built lots of new space to fill retailers' expansion plans...
Main Street. In the short two- to three-year period since the term has become the buzzword in the retail industry, it is already overused and yet under-defined. With several projects now complete that tout a Main Street emphasis, the time has come...
Urban shopping centers are struggling to meet their parking needs. Without adequate parking, centers have difficulty competing with their suburban counterparts. However, the cost of building a parking deck can be prohibitive, particularly in...
For an industry in which the only constant is change, we have remained remarkably staid in our approach to the development of storefront criteria. Emphasis has been on design control and limitations rather than cooperation and innovation. Tenant...
Weingarten Realty Investors today announced strong earnings for the first quarter, prompting praise for the company’s performance from analysts, some of whom raised earnings expectations for the Houston-based REIT...
Westfield America has completed its $756 million acquisition of nine regional malls from The Richard E. Jacobs Group. The deal, first announced in December, boosts Westfield’s portfolio to 48 centers with more than 48 million square feet of retail...
In a sign of the strong market for grocery-anchored retail properties, Boston-based shopping center owner Heritage Property Investment Trust pulled off a successful IPO this week — the first real estate company to do so since 1998...
