The entertainment-retail movement aims to provide leisure-time activities in a shopping environment. If along the way people stop to shop at the retail stores, so much the better...
For two of the country's most successful and best known real estate companies, the decision to merge operations might have surprised outsiders. Dallas-based Trammell Crow Co. (TCC) and Faison & Associates Inc. of Charlotte, N.C., were both...
Seven out of 10 REIT industry CEOs expect merger involvement in the next five years, according to an electronic survey conducted Feb. 25 for the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT)...
A variation of credit tenant lease financing, where the primary focus of the lender is on the credit standing of the tenant as opposed to the real estate, a sale-leaseback involves the property owner selling the property to an investor for a long...
CBL & Associates Properties Inc. has been on an aggressive growth streak. The Chattanooga,Tenn.-based REIT has expanded its portfolio of regional malls from 15 to 28 properties in the past three years...
Capital Lease Funding (CLF), a New York-based commercial real estate lender, has taken its message promoting securitized credit lease financing on the road this spring through a series of seminars. The sessions, titled "Financing Properties Net...
NEW DEVELOPMENTS Greenville, S.C. - Plans are in the works for Cherrydale Point, a 400,000 sq. ft. shopping center being developed in Greenville. The center will feature a 16-screen Regal Cinema, up to nine anchors and approximately 60,000 sq. ft...
Retail leases usually contain provisions addressing the responsibility for maintenance and repair of the leased premises or shopping center. Two areas that can give rise to lease- language-interpretation problems are replacement and structural...
General Growth Properties Inc. John Bucksbaum has been appointed CEO of Chicago, Ill.-based General Growth Properties Inc., effective July 1, 1999. Bucksbaum will succeed his father, Matthew Bucksbaum, who will retain his position as chairman of...
