Mall of the Future
Feb 2, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
What a shopping trip might look like a decade from now. ...
Retail Contractors Expect Business to Remain Slow in 2010.
Jan 25, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
The outlook for retail construction will begin to stabilize this year, but it will likely be a long road back to the volume contractors completed in the mid-2000s. ...
Mall Owners Are Giving Food Courts and Common Areas a Facelift.
Jan 14, 2010, By Mike Janssen
Designers of today’s food courts and other common areas at regional malls draw inspiration from other spheres such as spas, hotels and lively cityscapes—and notably not the food courts of yesteryear. ...
Expanding Retailers Begin to Look at Big-Box Spaces, but Supply Outstrips Demand
Jan 6, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Up-and-coming big-box tenants are starting to absorb excess space that drowned the market in late 2008 and 2009....
Retail Real Estate's 2009 in Review
Dec 29, 2009
A look back at the most challenging year in retail real estate's history. ...
Thompson Sees Opportunity to Invest in Retail Real Estate
Dec 11, 2009, David Bodamer
This summer, Thompson launched TNP Strategic Retail Trust Inc. The non-traded REIT is aimed at investing in neighborhood multi-tenant grocery-anchored shopping centers and free standing single-tenant retail properties, primarily in the Western United States. It will also offer mortgage, mezzanine, bridge and other loans related to commercial real estate....
Retail Real Estate Should Begin Its Healing Process in 2010
Dec 4, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
After suffering through a moribund 2009 when investment sales, lending and leasing were largely frozen, the retail real estate industry is showing signs that the long-awaited rebound may be starting. ...
New York’s Luxury Corridor Loses its Luster, but Less Expensive Areas Hold Their Own.
Nov 17, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Madison Ave. has seen vacancy rates rise and rents plummet, but other Manhattan retail districts have fared better during the downturn....
Retail Financing Flows to Favored Borrowers and Property Types
Nov 10, 2009, By Beth Mattson-Teig
Following a year when getting a loan for a retail project seemed about as likely as hitting a Powerball jackpot, prospective borrowers are sensing that lenders may remove the vice grip on their purse strings in 2010. ...
Some Smaller Retail Real Estate Firms Have Thrived in the Downturn
Nov 3, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
The most nimble of small owners have taken steps to ensure that they not only will survive this downturn, but thrive when the industry rebounds....
Architects Learn How to Create Inviting Retail Spaces for Less Money
Oct 27, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Developers building new retail centers and repositioning old ones in today's market climate can take comfort in the fact that they can still create enticing spaces without spending a lot of money. ...
VIDEO: Retailers Can Realize Huge Savings Through Carefully Monitoring Leases
Oct 14, 2009, David Bodamer, Editor in Chief, Retail Traffic
In the current retail environment—with sagging sales, shuttered stores and the occasional bankruptcy—cost-cutting has become a must....
Retailers Must Adapt as Baby Boomers and Gen Y-ers Alter Their Shopping Patterns
Oct 6, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
It doesn't seem that long ago that Abercrombie & Fitch was the hottest apparel retailer around. In the past decade it trotted out three new concepts—Hollister Co., Gilly Hicks and RUEHL No.925 to great fanfare each time...
Swelling Enrollment Turns Schools into Welcome Retail Tenants in the Southeast
Sep 29, 2009, By Mike Janssen
It’s not just kids who are going back to school this fall. With the unemployment rate spiking, adults have increasingly returned to the classroom to make the most of downtime...
Retailers Look to Fill Vacancies in Chicago’s Loop and Affluent Shopping Districts
Sep 22, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
It's time to move back to the city. That's the conclusion that many national and local retailers seem to be drawing about Chicago...
Forced to Count Every Dollar, Retailers Re-evaluate Site Selection Practices
Sep 15, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Amid all the not-so-great news reported during the dog days of summer—weak back-to-school sales, falling rental rates—there were signs the retail industry might be coming out of hibernation...
Landlords and tenants have had a trying year, but it is time for the two sides to adopt a joint view of success
Sep 8, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
For JMW Development LLC, the renegotiation request came rather unexpectedly. The Minneapolis-based real estate development firm had been working with discount retailer Target for several years on its Commerce Hill project in Woodbury, Minn...
To fill California’s gaping budget deficit, the government may squeeze retailers and retail real estate owners
Aug 26, 2009, By Brad Berton
As if conditions aren’t tough enough for California retail property developers - particularly those seeking tenants amid so much vacant space - a troubling specter looms...
When the Landlord Can’t Pay the Mortgage
Aug 19, 2009
In the face of the biggest financial crisis and deepest recession since the Great Depression, retail landlords are increasingly falling behind on mortgage payments or defaulting entirely...
Retail Property Owners Join the Social Networking Craze (8/18)
Aug 18, 2009, by Elaine Misonzhnik
This feature examines how companies are embracing social networking and other online technologies to promote retail properties...
VIDEO: Related's Bronx Gateway to Alter New York's Retail Landscape (8/11)
Aug 11, 2009
On the site of the historic Bronx Terminal Market, New York-based Related Cos. is nearly set to debut the Gateway Center at Bronx Terminal Market...
Mall Marketing Managers Shift Emphasis from Driving Traffic to Generating Sales (8/4)
Aug 4, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Up until about a year ago, mall marketing managers had been focused on creating a sense of community...
Owners need retailer commitments and deep pockets to redevelop centers (7/28)
Jul 28, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
Owners need retailer commitments and deep pockets to redevelop centers...
Grocers Increasingly Taking Over Vacant Big Boxes (7/21)
Jul 21, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
What the deals getting done have in common is that grocers are picking off the choice locations first...
2009 Top Contractors
Jul 13, 2009
For the third straight year Little Rock, Ark.–based VCC topped both the shell and interior space rankings as part of our annual look at the top contractors of retail real estate...
