Room to Grow
May 1, 2008, Chuck Green
French cuisine soon might not be the only thing cooking in France, thanks to Asterop GeoIntelligence analytics, which provides a comprehensive picture...
Waiting Game
May 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
Concerns about the broader economy, a yawning bid-ask gap between buyers and sellers and scarce credit have created an incredible shrinking volume of...
Coming Soon: The iMall?
May 1, 2008
Apple has reportedly filed a patent entitled Enhancing Online Shopping Atmosphere that seems to be a virtual, three-dimensional store with sections devoted...
Going All In
May 1, 2008
Blockbuster launched a surprise $1 billion bid for sagging electronics retailer Circuit City in mid-April. Blockbuster, which has suffered as mail DVD...
Diminished Expectations
May 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Real estate brokers had hoped the steep decline in investment sales of retail properties in the last quarter of 2007 was a temporary setback. Now it's...
Sub Sandwiches
May 1, 2008
The next time you stop by your local department store, there's a good chance you might see a fast food restaurant or a vitamin shop taking up some of...
Lifestyle Goes Indoors
May 1, 2008, Patricia Kirk
Westfield Group, an Australian-based mall operator, is adding a $240 million three-story, 400,000-square-foot indoor lifestyle retail component to its...
Macerich, Whole Foods Make Nice
May 1, 2008
The Macerich Co. and Whole Foods Inc. agreed to terminate the natural food grocer's lease of a 40,000-square-foot space at a property in Boulder, ending...
DOWN MARKET DESIGN
May 1, 2008, By David Sokol
In the business of architecture, a rule of thumb goes that the ups and downs of the industry generally lag those of the economy by anywhere between six...
2008 TRADE EXPO EXHIBITORS
May 1, 2008
ADVERTISING/ MARKETING/ PROMOTIONAL ITEMS David A. Suplee Architectural Illustrators - S3102 Image Packaging - S7090 MSD Visual - S5094 Neoscape, Inc....
LOST LUSTER
May 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
To understand how the downturn in the U.S. real estate market will affect the direction of cross-border investment in retail properties this year, take...
On the Make
May 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
It's been almost a year since the retail REIT sector saw a significant merger or acquisition, but one may soon be in the works between Inland American...
Waiting for Stability
May 1, 2008, Chuck Green
As retail investment properties demonstrate strong underlying fundamentals, some investors are awaiting a return to stability, according to the Jones...
LOCKED AND LOADED
May 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
A handful of investors, in April grabbed their wallets and began shopping for retail real estate in the U.S., ready to pump billions of dollars into a...
NEW BIG APPLE
May 1, 2008
The Apple Store's biggest store yet opened on Ninth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan....
Cautious Buyers
May 1, 2008, By Beth Mattson-Teig
The Delaware REIT Fund has not lost its appetite for retail real estate. Despite the deluge of dismal headlines slamming the retail sector, the $107 million...
Simon Says Redevelop
May 1, 2008
Executives at Simon Property Group during a recent earnings call said the firm was delaying construction on some of its projects because of the weak sales...
OUT OF CAROLINA
May 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
At a time when many developers are postponing their pipelines, a company out of North Carolina is pressing ahead with a project that would put the Mall...
Outsourcing's Smorgasbord
May 1, 2008, By Buck Wargo
The sagging economy has served up a bounty for brokerage houses catering to the retail sector. Firms that specialize in outsourcing real estate management...
Using Its Noodle
May 1, 2008, Jennifer Popovec
Anyone who thinks ramen noodles are only for poor college students should visit wagamama, a United Kingdom-based, full-serve casual restaurant modeled...
DEVELOPMENT BRIEFS
May 1, 2008
Hopkins Real Estate and Rockwood Capital Corp. opened Vernola Marketplace, a 385,000-sq.-ft. retail center in Riverside County, Calif. Champion Retail...
Reading Tea Leaves
Apr 1, 2008, Riccardo A. Davis
Taking a break from worrying about today's rocky business climate, a small group of owners and developers gathered at ICSC's REvent in February, to talk...
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS
Apr 1, 2008
Some developers are going the extra mile to establish good community relations. In the case of a project in Fort Wayne, Ind., for example, Northbrook,...
The Lap of LUXURY
Apr 1, 2008, By Lauren Shepherd
When Libby Lassiter began developing the Tysons Galleria in McLean, Va., in 1988, she decided to try something rather novel in those days anchoring a...
BUSINESS DEALS
Apr 1, 2008
Real estate veterans Larry Latham, Louis B. Fisher III and Doug Dennison formed AmeriBid, a company that will provide exit strategies for institutional...
