A $7.6 billion buyout offer for Family Dollar Stores Inc. is just the latest sign that this once-maligned corner of the retail world continues to gain respectability.
Dollar store sales have outperformed many other retail segments in recent year...
Hilco Real Estate LLC has been appointed real estate advisor to The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. in its bankruptcy restructuring. In addition to its comprehensive role as consultant and lease restructuring advisor, HRE is managing A&P’s...
The CMBS market’s total exposure to Borders stores, both those slated for closing and those that will continue to operate, comes to 3 million square feet of space. Realpoint estimates that there are approximately 33 centers encumbered by CMBS...
CanCan Development LLC will build CanCan Casino Resort and French Village, a $450 million mixed-use center in the City of D’Iberville, Miss. The project will include a 60,000-square-foot casino, 90,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, 550...
In an era when organic and natural products have become a cultural obsession and when successful retailing appears to be about having a unique product offering, Bill the Butcher is making a well-timed entry into the marketplace.
The Seattle-base...
In the early 2000s, there used to be a pretty clear delineation between firms offering web and software solutions for the commercial real estate industry and those offering traditional consulting services. But the field of property management has...
If you sell online and via retail stores, make sure you align your web and store channels. That’s what the Home Depot learned when it did its online makeover last May.
Speaking Tuesday at the Internet Retailer Web Design & Usability Conference...
Just when it seemed like power centers were building some momentum, Borders had to come along and spoil the party.
The bookseller giant has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and it estimates that 30 percent of its remaining 642 stores—...
The vacancy rate at power centers at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010 was 6.9 percent--down from a peak of 7.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009. Net absorption has been positive for power centers for seven straight quarters. The figure...
