December 1, 2005
Departments
MALL WALK: True Blue Myths
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Beth Karlin Editor-in-Chief
Authenticity is in the eye of the beholder. At the Urban Land Institute fall meeting in Los Angeles in November, architects and developers debated the...
TRAFFIC PATTERNS
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
HOMEGROWN PRICES The bubble could be about to burst. But those who bought houses in the past five years in the following cities can appreciate the appreciation,...
PARTING SHOT: La Galleria di Dubai
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
Patterned after the historic, domed Galleria di Milano in Italy, this skylight covers a section of the 2.1-mile-long Mall of the Emirates in Dubai. The...
Traffic Reports
Mills Takes A Spill
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, David Bodamer
Mills Corp. stunned the industry in early November when it rescheduled its third-quarter earnings call only to come back and report that it had missed...
Venti Yerba Mate Latte
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
According to the Center for Culinary Development, exotic foods dominate the list of up-and-coming tastes. Look for tamarind, yerba mate tea, guarana and...
RFID Not Just For Nerds
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
Consumers are much savvier about radio frequency identification (RFID) coding than they were a year ago, but awareness of the high-tech tagging system...
PROJECTS & PEOPLE
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
Forest City will develop the Terrace at Traverse Mountain, a 150-acre lifestyle center located between Provo, Utah, and Salt Lake City. It's part of the...
Mall Attack Raises Security Questions
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, David Koch
It didn't take much to turn a pleasant, pre-holiday weekend at Simon Property Group's Tacoma (Wash.) Mall into a retailer's worst nightmare. It just took...
IN PROGRESS: The Grove At Wesley Chapel
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
Location: Wesley Chapel, Fla. (north of Tampa, Fla.) Type: Mixed-use Size: 835,000 sq. ft. of retail (both big-box and specialty stores), restaurants...
Mixed-Use Mania
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, David Koch
In a move to maximize the value of its assets, the Macerich Co. plans to add mixed-use components to its mall portfolio. We try to make our properties...
DDR Eyes China
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, David Koch
The untapped East has one more shopping center REIT under its spell. Developers Diversified Realty is exploring opportunities in China, where Simon Property...
Feeding the Animals
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
Forest City Stapleton and M.A. Mortenson Co. have teamed up to recycle dying trees at the massive Stapleton development and bring them to giraffes, rhinos,...
New Urbanism
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Beth Karlin
The New Orleans revitalization effort was the main topic of conversation at the Urban Land Institute's fall meeting in Los Angeles in November. ULI will...
Caruso Wins
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
Rick Caruso, CEO of Caruso Affiliated, has won his long battle against General Growth Properties to build the Americana at Brand in Glendale, Calif. Construction...
BUSINESS DEALS
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
IpofA West Oaks LP bought the 500,000-square-foot West Oaks Shopping Mall in Houston for $102 million. The mall is 90 percent leased and anchored by Sears,...
TIC Flip
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, David Bodamer
Just two-and-a-half years after 32 tenant-in-common investors bought the Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry, Calif., for $148 million in the (then)...
MIXED USE: Centum City
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
Location: Busan, Korea Developer: Shinsegae Architect: Callison Size: 6.2 million sq. ft. (entertainment, retail); 12.6 million sq. ft. (including business...
Features
Queasy Rider
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By David Bodamer
Fasten your seat belts. It's about to be a bumpy year Real estate developers have been operating on cruise control for five years, raking in money without...
Hot & Not in 2005
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
It was a year of mixing things up, of internationalism and Apple's continued revival. But it also witnessed troubles for video store chains and the withdrawal...
Passage to India
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Anne Field
So near and yet so far. That could be the cry of retailers and shopping mall developers eyeing the potentially vast market in India. On the one hand,...
The High Cost of Procrastination
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By David Koch
With construction materials experiencing unprecedented volatility, how much can two days of indecision about whether to accept a particular bid cost?...
2005 Mixed Use Supplement
All Mixed Up And Loving It
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
What's old in real estate development is suddenly brand new: Mixed-use development. Time was when living above the store was commonplace in cities. That...
Atlantic Station: Realizing The Vision Of New Urbanism
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
New Urbanism, the design movement that spurred the recent influx of mixed-use developments, claims to dramatically improve people's quality of life by...
The Mercato-Naples, Fla.
Dec 1, 2005 12:00 PM
With final zoning approvals in hand, The Lutgert Companies and The Barron Collier Companies are poised to begin construction of The Mercato, a mixed-use...
