Until recently, Brookwood Village shopping center in Homewood, Ala., was like many aging malls around the country. Built in 1973 by the Shepherd family, the building was reaching the end of its useful life and was losing business to newer, sleeker...
Canada's Chinook Centre, a 1960s vintage mall that had seen better days, is emerging from the chaos of the country's largest redevelopment as a model for consumer comfort and a forum for unusual art...
Montreal, Quebec - Ivanhoe, the Canadian property management, development and investment firm, recently increased its holdings in Toronto-based Cambridge Shopping Centres Ltd. from 52.5 million common shares to 76.3 million - about 97% of...
Bowie, Md. - Construction has begun on Bowie Town Center, a 560,000 sq. ft. shopping village developed by Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group and designed by Baltimore-based RTKL. Located between Washington D.C. and Annapolis, Md., the...
As a longtime retail executive and current investor in Internet ventures by brick-and-mortar businesses, I have watched with interest as New Economy pundits have done a turnaround regarding the strengths of Internet pure-players vs. offline brands...
Fashion's "it girl" du jour - Stella McCartney - recently took up new digs at 850 Madison Avenue. Actually, it's the Paris-based fashion house, Chloe, that set up shop in New York's Upper East Side. McCartney has become virtually synonymous with...
Mergers and acquisitions continue to idle in the shopping center industry, due in part to edgy interest rates and capital-squeezed markets. But according to some insiders, a rebound may be on the horizon. James A. Schoff has been hearing the "e...
