Picketing at the Mall
Sep 1, 2008
In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned restrictions on picketing imposed by Macerich at shopping centers...
40 Carrots
Sep 1, 2008
ManciniDuffy has come to be associated with Bloomingdale's and has won multiple SADI awards in the process for the firm's continually successful new stores...
GREENBERGFARROW
Sep 1, 2008
Maximizing returns on an adaptive reuse project is a delicate proposition, especially with Related Co.'s Kingsbridge Armory project in the Bronx, New...
Best of Traffic Court
Sep 1, 2008
In Defense of Shopping Centers David Bodamer August 12th, 2008 On Friday, I linked to a screed about the future of shopping centers. A blog called The...
The New Number One
Sep 1, 2008
Spanish fashion giant Zara has surpassed its U.S. rival Gap Inc. as the largest apparel seller in the world. During its first quarter, Zara's parent company...
Worth Noting
Sep 1, 2008
Bass Pro Shops Sportsman's Center Miami R Bass Pro Shops are beautiful, but often feel the same. In recent years, though, the company has taken care to...
Opticon
Sep 1, 2008
Graft LLC's beautiful and inviting space in a tough site on the OPTICON store in Hamburg, Germany, is this year's Grand Winner. Judges were impressed...
HKW ASSOCIATES
Sep 1, 2008
Consumerism drives our economy and we Americans probably spend more time shopping than anyone else in the world. We all have had memorable experiences...
Stop Signals
Sep 1, 2008
Construction on retail real estate projects is coming to a screeching halt at projects across the country as developers reevaluate proposed centers' economic...
Projects & People
Sep 1, 2008
The Westfield Group completed the $240 million redevelopment of the Westfield Southcenter, a retail property in Seattle, Wash. The redevelopment included...
Parting Shot: Diamond in the Rough
Sep 1, 2008
Renowned international architecture firm Studio Daniel Libeskind is serving as a design consultant to Adamson Associates Architects as one component of...
Seibu Flagship
Sep 1, 2008
A highlight of the 108,000-square-foot Seibu Flagship Department Store in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a five-story etched glass, chrome and mirror atrium....
JPRA ARCHITECTS
Sep 1, 2008
For 30 years, JPRA Architects has been recognized as a leader in retail architectural design, combining state-of-the-art innovation with cultural and...
In Progress: Designer Outlets of MidAmerica
Sep 1, 2008
Location: Council Bluffs, Iowa Developer: Continental Retail Development Size: 450,000 sq. ft. Ground-breaking: Fall 2009 Completion: Summer 2010 Buzz:...
Looking East
Sep 1, 2008
Faced with lower growth stateside, more and more U.S. REITs are looking overseas. On Aug. 13, Vornado Realty Trust, a New York City-based diversified...
Back to the Drawing Board
Sep 1, 2008, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
It has been a tumultuous 12 months in retail real estate. The housing bust and the credit crunch have taken their toll and massively slowed the pace of...
Projects & People
Aug 1, 2008
Brody Co., Inc. and Zimmer Development Co. will develop Mayfaire Town Center, a $200 million, 400-acre, mixed-use project in Wilmington, N.C. Ernst &...
New South Street
Aug 1, 2008
General Growth Properties unveiled its vision for a revived and renovated South Street Seaport in New York City....
Dollar-and-a-Half Stores?
Aug 1, 2008
Inflation is taking its toll on dollar stores. Many of the small mom-and-pops can no longer afford to sell goods for that cheap, forcing many to raise...
Summer School
Aug 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
As retailers shift into high gear for the all-important back-to-school shopping season, mall owners and operators looking to boost sales at their centers...
Centro Clears Hurdle
Aug 1, 2008, Elaine Misonzhnik
As it continues to wrestle with a mountain of debt, Centro Properties Group, a poster child of the credit crunch, on Tuesday announced the sale of the first piece of its 106.5-million-square-foot U.S. portfolio...
Starbucks Loses Ground
Aug 1, 2008
The announcement that coffee giant Starbucks plans to close 600 stores 500 more than CEO Howard Schultz had talked about earlier this year is unwelcome...
Antiwar Protest at the Mall
Aug 1, 2008
In March on Long Island, N.Y., a man was arrested and removed from a mall when he wouldn't remove an anti-war shirt he was wearing. Now local protest...
Smoldering CMBS
Aug 1, 2008
When the credit crunch first broke in earnest last fall and froze the U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market in its tracks, ...
Shut Down
Aug 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
When rumors surfaced in July that the mid-price department store chain Mervyns was on the brink of entering bankruptcy proceedings, the news hit landlords...
