It started tentatively. The first conversations between the attendees of the ICSC RECon 2010 were marked by a cautious optimism—almost as if people didn’t want to jinx it...
The retail development business has—for all intents and purposes—been dead for much of the past two years. In fact, in 2009 the industry delivered the lowest amount of new space in at least 27 years...
Shopping center REITs continued to make headway in re-leasing vacant big box stores in the first quarter, leading to stable occupancies and smaller declines in same-store NOIs compared to 2009. Like their counterparts in the regional mall sector...
Slowly but surely, the retail real estate industry is embracing social networking. From Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn to Foursquare, firms are increasingly experimenting with sharing information, reaching out to consumers and finding new ways to...
Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust Inc. signed definitive agreements to form a joint venture with RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, Canada’s largest REIT. RioCan’s initial $138 million investment in the venture includes eight shopping...
