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....
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...
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...
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....
Best of Traffic Court
Oct 1, 2008
How Lehman Hurts Commercial Real Estate David Bodamer September 16th, 2008 I'm still trying to get my head around the implications that Lehman's collapse...
Mulling Alternatives
Oct 1, 2008
General Growth Properties, the owner of the second-largest portfolio of regional malls in the U.S., said in late September that it is pursuing strategic...
Editor's Letter: When the Wall (Street) Comes Down
Oct 1, 2008, By David Bodamer, Editor-in-Chief
It's gut-check time. It's time to admit that this financial crisis has now exceeded anything we've seen since the Great Depression. This is worse than...
And The Winners Are
Sep 1, 2008
Welcome to the 19th edition of Retail Traffic's annual Superior Achievement in Design and Imaging awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in creating...
The Domain
Sep 1, 2008
JPRA's retail contribution to the Domain in Austin, Texas, is a textbook example of how retail should work within a broader mixed-use environment. One...
Evolutions in Green Building
Sep 1, 2008
Q: How is the green building trend shaping up? Are the standards in place working or do they need to be tweaked further for retail design and construction?...
Brokers Search the Depths
Sep 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
Has the slowdown in retail real estate sales hit bottom? Not yet, say wavering observers who predict that won't occur until the second quarter of 2009...
Business Deals
Sep 1, 2008
American Continental Properties, LLC appointed Levin Management Corp. as leasing and managing agent for Monroe Plaza, a 156,000-sq.-ft. grocery-anchored...
