Stock and Trade
Mar 1, 2009
Simon Property Group's surprising decision to pay out its fourth- quarter dividend in the form of 90 percent stock instead of cash could trigger a new trend for retail REITs...
Time to Work Together
Mar 1, 2009, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
For too long the landlord/tenant relationship in this business has been adversarial. To be sure, in good times, everyone seems to get along. That's because...
Business Deals
Mar 1, 2009
Cohen and Co., Inc. Real Estate negotiated the sale of the 234,045-sq.-ft. Ormond Towne Square, in Ormond Beach, Fla., from Developers Diversified Realty to the Jaffe Corp. for $20 million...
Take Four
Mar 1, 2009
The Mall of America won't be making another pitch to Minnesota's state legislature...
On Second Thought
Mar 1, 2009
About two years into Tesco's experiment in the U.S., the company is now saying that it took the wrong approach in trying to break in...
Room to Grow
Feb 1, 2009
In an industry that has been flooded with an avalanche of bad news in the past 12 months, including sales declines, store closings and stalled or scrapped...
Trimming the Branches
Feb 1, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
In the upscale suburban Dallas community of Highland Village, four shopping centers recently opened at the intersection of Long Prairie and Justin Roads....
Short Circuit
Feb 1, 2009
The big news for Richmond-based Circuit City was the company's decision to liquidate its remaining 687 stores following a dismal holiday shopping season....
March on WASHINGTON
Feb 1, 2009, By Riccardo A. Davis
When the founding fathers were trying to decide on a site for the federal capital, they eventually opted for one that took advantage of the Potomac River...
Rush to the Rescue
Feb 1, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
One example of what might become an all too common phenomenon this year occurred on Jan. 6 when a court ordered the 509,000-square-foot Shenango Valley...
GETTING BACK ON ITS FEET
Feb 1, 2009, Elaine Misonzhnik
With a series of small announcements, embattled regional mall REIT General Growth Properties Inc. little by little got its house in order as a Feb. 12...
A Final Sting
Feb 1, 2009, Elaine Misonzhnik
Amid a dismal holiday sales season, rife with low shopper traffic and huge markdowns, U.S. retailers might suffer another hit to bottom lines as stretched...
Picking Up the PIECES
Feb 1, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
Although Chicago-based REIT General Growth Properties and Australian limited property trust Centro Properties Group have so far been able to work out...
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Feb 1, 2009, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
The final numbers are in, and 2008 was the worst holiday shopping season in a generation, marking an ignoble finish to a dismal year for retail. That...
A Helping Hand
Feb 1, 2009
In unorthodox moves, two major retail real estate developers are helping keep Reading, Pa.-based regional department store chain Boscov's afloat. Cafaro...
Rush to the Rescue (1/22)
Jan 22, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Real estate brokerage firms gear up for a wave of distressed assets...
Reversals of Fortune (1/15)
Jan 15, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Materials prices are coming down, but contractors face a shortage of work...
Trimming the Branches (1/8)
Jan 8, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
Consolidation among commercial banks will lead to shuttering of branches as organizations look to prune portfolios....
Bargain Hunting in Manhattan
Dec 1, 2008, By Marc Hequet
Despite dire forecasts that New Yorkers will reign in their spending for everything but the basics, Spanish retailer Zara is forging ahead with opening a store on Manhattan's Upper West Side....
You've Got the Retail Network
Dec 1, 2008, David Bodamer
Feeling they weren't getting enough face-to-face time with clients and contacts, a handful of young retail real estate pros in New York have launched...
Best of Traffic Court
Dec 1, 2008
Did Paulson Break the CMBX Indices? David Bodamer November 13th, 2008 Check out the spreads. The spreads, for example, on CMBX-NA-BB4 went from 1,200...
The End of Investment Banks?
Nov 1, 2008
It's the end of an era. The big Wall Street investment banks that survived two World Wars, the Great Depression and the Asian financial crisis were taken...
Best of Traffic Court
Nov 1, 2008
Retail REITs Down Again David Bodamer October 15th, 2008 Update 2:45 PM Update 2 4:41 PM I posted about REITs sliding yesterday. It's happening again...
What's In It for Me?
Nov 1, 2008
With everything else that's happened since mid-September, Henry Paulson's bailout proposal, which grew from a three-page memo to a 450-page monstrosity,...
Transforming the Banking Sector
Nov 1, 2008
It's not unusual to see two or three bank failures a year, either from fraud or abuse of power or something less criminal, like mismanagement of funds....
