Are Rising Vacancies A Concern?
Aug 22, 2007
When the housing market began to seriously falter in 2006, analysts raised concerns that retail real estate would be next. It was no secret, after all, that millions of Americans had pulled equity from their homes for years to finance cars, vacations and shopping trips to the mall. ...
Taking on Goliath
Jul 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
When executives at Paul Hemmer Companies, a Fort Mitchell, Ky.-based construction and real estate firm servicing Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee,...
Bush League No More
Jun 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
When P. Evan Farahnik, principal of real estate investment and acquisitions firm StarPoint Commercial Properties, LLC, first entered the retail real estate arena 15 years ago, he was a firm believer in investing in primary markets only....
Swollen Pipeline
May 1, 2007, Jennifer Popovec
Forest City Enterprises has a record nine projects working their way through its retail development pipeline. The Cleveland, Ohio-based firm has 4 million square feet of commercial projects in development now...
Inside The Chinese Box
May 1, 2007, By Anne Field
Two years ago billionaire Alex Wu's Dongguan San Yuan Ying Hui Investment and Development Co. opened the largest shopping mall in the world in China the South China Mall to great fanfare...
Neck and Neck
May 1, 2007, By Jennifer Popovec
In the mid-1980s, parachute pants and the Rubik's cube were a lot more popular than open-air centers. Just ask Mike Jaffe, who helped revive the dormant practice of building open-air centers with tenants more typical of a regional mall...
Seniors Enter The Mix
May 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
It's not your grandfather's senior center. Water parks, multiplexes and fitness centers are just a few of the amenities being touted at a slew of mixed-used centers being constructed by developers that target residents 55 years of age and older...
Developers Charting Gulf Coast Course
Mar 14, 2007
Slowly but surely, retail developers are readying to rebuild the ravaged Gulf Coast that is taking steps to rebound from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita...
Washington’s Development Machine Grinds On
Mar 8, 2007
Much of turnaround stems from the city itself, where there continues to be a major push for development from the mayor’s office. The turn began under Anthony Williams, who served two terms beginning in 1998, and is continuing under the current administration of Adrian Fenty. ...
Defining Mixed-Use
Dec 6, 2006
In the past few years, as the idea of mixed-use development has gained cachet among investors, developers have thrown around the term pretty loosely. To counter that, a panel of experts at the New York ICSC Dealmaking show this week, tried to once again invest the term with a precise meaning. ...
