AFTER SPENDING THE PAST three years strengthening its existing shopping center portfolio with $31 million worth of improvements, Combined Properties is now looking for high-yield redevelopment deals with third-party partners...
For skeptics, green design conjures images of tree huggers shivering in minimally heated buildings. But sustainable buildings — and the techniques used to rate their “greenness” — have evolved...
In many areas of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., the economic slowdown sweeping the rest of the nation hasn't hit home. "We're seeing signs of what we read in the papers. But many of the retailers we represent are pulling in very strong...
Richard Heapes, a principal with Street-Works, calls his firm a “creative developer” — a company that combines the traditional development expertise of financing and leasing with design and planning expertise to make great places. Street-Works...
THROUGH THE YEARS, Birkenstock has been linked to hippies, tie-dye, peace, love and happiness. So when the U.S. division of this German footwear retailer employed Twenty Four•Seven Marketing Bloc Inc. to design its San Francisco flagship store...
Running in my genes is just enough creativity to be dangerous. By moving every few years, from country to country and from house to house, I've been able to leave my “creative” decorating and faddish color schemes behind for the next person to re...
New Hyde Park, N.Y. — A joint venture between Kimco Realty Corp., Simon Property Group and the Schottenstein Group won designation rights in March for all the real estate interests of defunct department store chain Montgomery Ward...
