EXTREME MAKEOVER
Sep 1, 2004, By Anne Knowles
According to the well-worn axiom, the Huntington Beach Shopping Center had it all. The covered mall, Southern California's oldest, built in 1966, was...
Temple of Domesticity
Apr 1, 2004, By Barbara A. Nadel, FAIA
The evolution of Chicago's Medinah Temple into one of Bloomingdale's largest standalone Home + Furnishings stores is a retailing success story that has...
Breaking Up The Box
Feb 1, 2004, By Patricia Kirk
Architecturally, there's nothing compelling about the common big-box structure. Like an old refrigerator, it serves a purpose. But when it becomes obsolete,...
Cities Are Afraid of The Dark
Feb 1, 2004, Patricia Kirk
The growing problem of big-box castaways is so widespread that cities are forcing retailers even before they move into an area to agree to move-out terms....
Canadian Stadium's New Leaf
Dec 1, 2003, Ira Breskin
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens is set to become a retail emporium by early 2005. The sale of the 100,00-square-foot hockey arena to Canadian supermarket...
To Demolish or Not to Demolish
Nov 1, 2003, By Joy Armstrong
Is it better to renovate or rebuild? That is the question facing developers and retailers as aging shopping centers and freestanding stores need to be...
ACT II: SILVERCUP STUDIOS
Jul 1, 2003
The Sopranos and Sex and the City solidified New York's Silvercup Studios' fame as a state-of-the art production facility. Now developer brothers Alan...
Live from ICSC: California's ADA Conundrum
May 23, 2003, By Brannon Boswell
Neighborhood center owners in California are wrestling with an increasingly volatile issue-ADA compliance. According to several California developers,...
Visions of the Future?
May 1, 2003, By David Sokol
The storefronts of a handful of surviving tenants are festooned with signs announcing special sales. Their neighbors are padlocked, windows papered over...
The ART of Demalling
May 1, 2003, By Peter Hochstein with Morris Newman
In its 1960s heyday, Villa Italia, a 1.5 million-square-foot enclosed mall in Lakewood, Colo., was a luminary among regional centers. But by 2001 it stood...
