Q: What do you anticipate as a driving trend in retail development in 2004?
Sep 1, 2003
Little Diversified Architectural Consulting Bruce Barteldt, Principal: You have got to hope that there will be a release of pent-up demand in the marketplace....
Q: What is the successor to lifestyle centers concepts? Is there a clear successor?
Sep 1, 2003
Carter & Burgess, Inc. Dale Ciapetti, Senior Designer: North Hills is a great example of taking the successfully realized attributes of a lifestyle center...
Q: How popular are inside-outside hybrid malls with consumers? With developers?
Sep 1, 2003
Dorsky Hodgson + Partners William Dorsky, President: The hybrid mall which blends a conventional mall with lifestyle elements is being selectively introduced...
If You Plant It, Will They Come?
Sep 1, 2003, By Claudia Strage Castaybert
Florida hardwood hammocks, the small, vine-entangled forests that once dotted the state from the Panhandle down to the Keys, have all but vanished in...
Q: The European ideal of living above the shop has become the mantra of commercial development live, work and shop in a mixed-use community. As designers, how must we respond?
Sep 1, 2003
RTKL Associates Jeff Gunning, Vice President: As responsible designers and urbanists, we must embrace this. The traditional mall has proven to be somewhat...
Rouse: Portfolio Pruning
Aug 1, 2003
As department stores continue to lose market share, mall owners are purging weaker-performing assets from their portfolios, a strategy The Rouse Co. has...
Mixing It Up
Jul 1, 2003, Peter Slatin
Architects and urban planners have been effusive in their praise of "New Urbanist" mixed-use projects. They are seen as the perfect antidote to the bland,...
THE VISION THING
Jul 1, 2003, By Peter Hochstein
If you paraphrase Kenneth Wong's philosophies of architecture, shopping centers and the Internet, they all seem to boil down to this: Content creates...
big bets
Jun 1, 2003
After three years of declining growth in retail sales and with no sign of a strong rebound in the U.S. economy, mall developers have pulled in their horns....
What's Old is New Again
May 1, 2003, By Victor MacFarlane
Over the next 20 years, the United States will experience tremendous population growth, as an estimated 60 million people are expected to be born or immigrate...
