MANCHESTER DEVELOPMENT STEPS UP TO BAT
Jun 1, 2003, David Sokol
When fans in Manchester, N.H., come to watch their new hometown team, a Toronto Blue Jays Double A affiliate, they'll have more than baseball souvenirs...
HEARD ON THE FLOOR
Jun 1, 2003
General Growth Properties was preparing to open a 27,000-square-foot Harley-Davidson dealership, the newest anchor at its White Mountain Mall in Rock...
PITTSBURGH POPS
Jun 1, 2003, By Curt Hazlett
Pittsburgh isn't what it used to be. The region's smoke-belching steel mills are mostly gone now, and taking their place are greener enterprises biotech,...
CONVENIENCE, or Low Prices?
Jun 1, 2003, By Beth Mattson-Teig
Consumers, owners and investors have a love/hate relationship with strip centers. Sure, these 30,000- to 150,000-square-foot, grocery-anchored properties...
The Best and the Brightest
Jun 1, 2003
What the editors of Retail Traffic saw at Lightfair What the ICSC Spring Convention is to the retail and real estate industry, Lightfair International...
STRIP SHOPPING
Jun 1, 2003, Beth Karlin Editor-in-Chief
In the retail real estate business, we tend to think of Las Vegas as the site of the ICSC marathon every May. But it's the fastest growing city in the...
Better Sites Through SCIENCE
Jun 1, 2003, By Amy Tsao
Site selection technology isn't just about choosing real estate anymore. It's about creating targeted marketing, managing consolidation, valuing customers...
TRAFFIC PATTERNS
Jun 1, 2003
CHANGING CHANNELS While everyone shops at grocery stores, American shoppers are making fewer trips annually to their local supermarket. Meanwhile, they're...
big bets
Jun 1, 2003
After three years of declining growth in retail sales and with no sign of a strong rebound in the U.S. economy, mall developers have pulled in their horns....
MOTOR CITY ROCKS
Jun 1, 2003
Revitalization plans for downtown Detroit hit a high note last month as Hard Rock Cafe agreed to take space in the city's seven-block, 2 million-square-foot...
CORRECTIONS
Jun 1, 2003
Following are the credits for the Tabor Center, a SADI Award winner. They were incorrect in our May issue. Development Management: Urban Retail Properties...
REGISTERING AT MALL U.
Jun 1, 2003, Beth Karlin
First, it was luxury dorms that lured the best and brightest students. The next step, naturally, is to add retail for these upscale consumers something...
Edens' Advantage
Jun 1, 2003, By Curt Hazlett
Everybody has to eat To shopping center developer Edens & Avant, that's more than a fact of life it's the underpinning of a successful business plan....
LOW PRICES GET TALLER: Wal-Mart grows up(ward) in Hawaii.
Jun 1, 2003
Hawaii is no stranger to Wal-Mart: This idyll of rainforests and killer curls is already home to six of the big boxes. To break into downtown Honolulu,...
PROJECTS & PEOPLE
Jun 1, 2003
Oliver McMillan is converting the former Glenview Naval Air Station north of Chicago into a 1,100-acre mixed-use project, including The Glen Town Center,...
FREDERICK'S OF SUBURBIA
Jun 1, 2003
Nobody knows more about makeovers than Frederick's of Hollywood Inc., an established retailer of women's lingerie and intimate apparel. Frederick's recently...
Will You Be Using Your Sears Card Today?
Jun 1, 2003
Even though many retailers offer a 10 percent discount at the cashstand if you apply for a store credit card, consumers are using them less, consolidating...
MACY'S BECOMES A HYPHENATE
Jun 1, 2003
It started in the South with Rich's-Macy's. Now, Federated Department Stores is adding the Macy's moniker to its regional brands from coast to coast....
How to Be a Smart Buyer in a Seller's Market
May 1, 2003, By Rick Langhorne
Experience has taught us that the real estate market is cyclical, driven by trends that can change drastically and, in recent years, swiftly. Right now,...
THE ANNALS OF MARKETING
May 1, 2003
In 1970, some malls were still having watermelon seed-spitting contests as an attraction, Doral Chenowith, corporate marketing director, Don M. Casto...
Power Broker
May 1, 2003, By Peter Hochstein
Many commercial real estate brokers are looking forward to when the sagging economy firms up, vacancies fall and transaction volume picks up again. Retail...
Retail Signage Morphs Into In-Store Video
May 1, 2003, By Walter Sebastian
Retailers spend lots of money on advertising and marketing through traditional media, creating rich messages that reach consumers everywhere, except where...
Coming to a Store Near You: Experiential Marketing
May 1, 2003, By Curt Hazlett
Jan Walters wants Atlantans to get down and dirty with her appliances. Visitors to her new showroom in upscale Buckhead are welcome to fry eggs on a high-BTU...
RETAIL FACE OFF: SANDBOX SCUFFLE
May 1, 2003
More than ever, penny-pinching parents are picking up kids clothes at discount stores and mass merchants. That leaves pricier children's specialty apparel...
Architects Unite for Mixed-Use Business
May 1, 2003, By Mike Fickes
Cozying up to the competition is not a traditional strategy for success. But a trio of top architecture firms is forming a business alliance to take on...
