“Many department stores are doomed,” says R. Fulton Macdonald, president and CEO of International Business Development Inc., a New York-based consulting firm specializing in retail. “The handwriting has been on the wall for 20 years, and it's just...
San Luis Obispo prides itself on marching to a different drummer. The small college community (pop. 43,050) on the central California coast has long been a haven for the so-called alternative culture, though a recent influx of people seeking...
Space: the final frontier. We've all heard those words, and we know what they mean with regard to William Shatner and company. But space and the final frontier have meaning right here at home, too...
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...
RETAILERS ARE dispelling fears that new digital formats will be the death knell for traditional businesses such as photo centers and video stores. Instead of hiding from such competitive technologies, they're embracing them...
“Assuming that there are other components such as office and perhaps residential as well, hotels and retail facilities complement each other by fulfilling needs of travelers with a high degree of convenience,” says Peter Keim, vice president in...
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...
