Retail Traffic Article Archive
Building Tension
Mar 1, 2011, By Elaine Misonzhnik
In recent weeks, developers have announced plans to build a fortress mall in New Jersey, a large mixed-use center in Boston and dozens of smaller grocery-anchored...
The Return of Risk
Mar 1, 2011, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic
For most of the past three-plus years, retail real estate has been a cautious business. When you talked to investors, lenders, owners and other stakeholders,...
Game Change
Jan 1, 2011, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Faster than anyone thought possible and without much in the way of government help the CMBS market has regained its vigor. Deutsche Bank and UBS made...
Cracking the Piggybank
Jan 1, 2011, By Beth Mattson-Teig
The stockpile of capital that investors have been accumulating for the past few years may finally start to shrink as investment in retail real estate...
Surprising Upside
Jan 1, 2011, By David Bodamer
There's no question that retail real estate is on the mend after a few tough years. But, by and large, it is still not seen as a favored class among all...
Cracking the Code
Jan 1, 2011, By David Bodamer
Indexes designed to gauge commercial real estate values have been around for a few years now. The original intention was that creators of various indexes...
New Competition
Jan 1, 2011, By David Bodamer
Investors searching for distressed big-box deals are facing competition from an unlikely source retailers. Large tenants including Walmart, Target, Kohl's...
Public Life
Jan 1, 2011, By Elaine Misonzhnik
When DLC Realty Trust, a Tarrytown, N.Y.-based private REIT, announced it was going to undertake an initial public offering in the summer of 2010, the...
On the Mend
Jan 1, 2011, By David Bodamer
You wouldn't think retail real estate had any challenges based on how well publicly traded retail REITs performed as a group in 2010. The sector posted...
Living History
Jan 1, 2011, By Elaine Misonzhnik
It's all behind us now, but while it lasted, General Growth Properties' reorganization made for some excellent theater for the real estate industry. Would...
Marathon Man
Jan 1, 2011, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Running a publicly traded REIT certainly has some advantages, including easy access to capital and a reputation for transparency that makes other companies...
Building Momentum
Nov 1, 2010, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic
For what seems like an interminable stretch of time, we've been waiting for things to get better. The industry peaked in early 2007, but the floor didn't...
SETTLING DOWN
Sep 1, 2010
Retail REITs are beginning to trade in a tighter range. The gaps between 52-week highs and lows have narrowed considerably as the March 2009 nadir grows...
Reassessing Distress
Mar 30, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
To date in 2010, Phillips Edison's and PECO Capital's $70 million Strategic Investment Fund I, which targets distressed retail developments and loans,...
Filling a Void
Jan 1, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
For much of 2009, hhgregg Inc., an Indianapolis-based regional electronics big-box chain, occupied a rare corner of the retail universe: It was a retailer...
Building Stress
Jan 1, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
As Steven B. Rivers, senior vice president and general manager with Hardin Construction Company LLC, an Atlanta-based general contractor, looks over the...
Change of Scenery
Jan 1, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Apparel seller New York & Co.'s January 11 announcement that it plans to open up to 25 outlet stores in its fiscal 2010 is a sign of the times for the...
THE MANAGEMENT OFFICE
Jan 1, 2010, Elaine Misonzhnik
Changing of the Guard New Year brings new leadership at several firms. The beginning of the new decade brings with it a changing of the guard at a few...
The Block 37 Saga
Jan 1, 2010
On Jan 22., a judge ordered the handover of the 285,000-square-foot retail component of the Block 37 mixed-use project in Chicago from Joseph Freed &...
BUSINESS DEALS
Oct 1, 2009
Glimcher Realty trust entered into an agreement to sell its Lloyd Center regional mall in Portland, Ore. to Merlone Geier Partners IX LP. Merlone will...
TRADE DOWN
Oct 1, 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...
WAITING FOR A BREAK
Oct 1, 2009, Elaine Misonzhnik
Those in the retail real estate industry who hoped the second half of 2009 would bring the long-awaited rush of investment sales transactions are likely...
School's In
Oct 1, 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...
Core Competencies
Oct 1, 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. There, firms have responded...
Standing Alone
Oct 1, 2009
In the latest development in an eventful year for Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trustm the firm opted to remain a stand-alone entity after reviewing its...
