Private Equity Repositions
Nov 1, 2007
Real estate private equity funds which have become a dominant force within the commercial real estate world may have pulled back a bit because of the...
Mall Cops: The Movie
Nov 1, 2007
Kevin James the former King of Queens star has signed on to write, produce and star in an upcoming comedy called Mall Cop. The plot focuses on a mall...
Doctoring Sales
Nov 1, 2007, By Riccardo A. Davis
The doctor will see you now. Don't be surprised to hear that phrase the next time you visit your neighborhood pharmacy. Drugstore chains have joined the...
The Whole of Whole Foods
Nov 1, 2007, By John Egan
Whole Foods Market Inc.'s real estate cart continues to fill up. In August, the country's largest grocer of natural and organic foods finally closed on...
Opening: The Mall At Partridge Creek
Nov 1, 2007
Location: Clinton Township, Mich. Developer: Taubman Centers, Inc. Size: 640,000 sq. ft. Anchors: Nordstrom, Parisian, MJR Cinema Opened: Oct. 18, 2007...
March of the Shirtless
Nov 1, 2007
The Abercrombie & Fitch flagship on New York City's Fifth Avenue employs a male model to stand shirtless near the store's entrance. A comedy troupe, Improv...
Steady as She Goes
Nov 1, 2007
Protected by high land prices and fierce opposition to new development, the northern New Jersey retail market continues to post a healthy performance...
Back to the Future
Nov 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Libby Gronbach, a 15-year-old Connecticut native, spends a lot of time online, like most of her Generation Y peers. She watches videos on YouTube, checks...
Centro Organizes Malls, Lifestyle
Nov 1, 2007
As part of Centro Properties Group continued reorganization in the wake of its acquisition of New Plan Excel, the firm has launched a dedicated team to...
Reeling Them In
Nov 1, 2007, By Patricia L. Kirk
Although mall marketing managers may be doing all they can to prolong the holiday shopping season and pulling out all the stops to keep consumers at their...
Collateral Damage
Nov 1, 2007, By Beth Mattson-Teig
This year was supposed to be the coming-out party for the commercial real estate collateralized debt obligation (CRE CDO) market. After topping $35 billion...
Projects & People
Nov 1, 2007
The Desco Group opened the first phase of Belleville Crossing, a $90 million, 125-acre retail commercial center in Belleville, Ill. When completed, the...
At the Crossroads
Nov 1, 2007, By David Bodamer
What's the outlook for regional mall REITs? It depends whom you ask. Investors have shied away from the sector in recent months and REIT analysts have...
Meeting Of The Minds
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
A budding relationship between electronics big-box retailer Best Buy and Apple, Inc. will expand a line of Apple stores-within-stores at Best Buy locations...
Editor's Letter: 'Tis the Ever-Expanding Season
Nov 1, 2007, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
If you tuned in to WNOU-FM in Indianapolis on October 8, what to your wondering ears did you hear? Jingle Bells. Or Silent Night. Or White Christmas....
Business Deals
Nov 1, 2007
Faris Lee Investments negotiated the sale of three retail centers in Texas for $30 million in a 1031 exchange. The centers, totaling 150,000 sq. ft.,...
Red Hot
Nov 1, 2007
Chanel, Marc Jacobs and Diane von Frstenberg are among the luxury designer brands ponying up record-setting rents for their high-visibility West Coast...
Run for the Border
Nov 1, 2007, Riccardo A. Davis
Parking lots at shopping centers near the United States's northern border are suddenly jammed with vehicles with Canadian license plates as cross-border...
Branching Out
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
In an effort to branch out its offerings, Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm SCI Real Estate Investments announced the formation of SCI Capital...
Pop Go the Toys
Nov 1, 2007
Toys'R'Us is going the pop-up shop route with a temporary store in New York City. What's odd about that is pop-up shops are usually used when retailers...
Holding Back on Luxe
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
One of the defining trends of the retail industry in the past decade has been a great hollowing out of the middle. Mid-tier chains have struggled or disappeared...
Changing Course
Nov 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
When Vista, Calif. signed a contract with a local developer for the creation of a mixed-use project on a city-owned parking lot near its downtown in 2005,...
Retailers on Tour
Nov 1, 2007
Although it doesn't include Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones or even Hannah Montana, a national tour featuring some names that are just as recognizable...
Pyramid Effect
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
The bidders continue to be few and far between, but Morgan Stanley REIT analysts Matthew Ostrower and Mick Chiang say the sale of the 16-center B-mall...
Top of the World
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
Manhattan's retail real estate market continued to outshine the rest of the country through the first three quarters of 2007, supported by steady employment...
