Management: Editor's Letter
Lessons from the List
Apr 1, 2008, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
Our annual list of the Top Owners and Managers of retail real estate is a labor of love. It's far from a perfect process (as those of you who filled out...
Mixed-Use Gets Tested
Mar 1, 2008, David Bodamer Editor-in-chief Retail Traffic Magazine
We have to admit that we've loved the industry's turn toward mixed-use projects. The environments companies are creating across the country are often...
Editor's Letter: What's Going On?
Feb 1, 2008, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
Here at Retail Traffic we're constantly trying to gauge the temperature of the market. That's become increasingly challenging given the schizophrenia...
Editor's Letter: Too Far, Too Fast
Jan 1, 2008, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
The meteoric ascent of Centro Properties Group from a company few were familiar with a decade ago to a firm that controls one of the 10 largest portfolios...
Editor's Letter: Credit Markets Crunch Commercial Real Estate
Dec 1, 2007, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
The industry has grappled with understanding the effects of the credit crunch since the summer. Up until now, the dominant view has been that the market...
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....
Editor's Letter: Gauging the Rate Cut
Oct 1, 2007, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
When Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke unexpectedly sliced the federal funds rate by half a percentage point on September 18, the stock market...
EDITOR'S LETTER: Past, Present, Future
Sep 12, 2007, David Bodamer, Editor-in-Chief
Here you will find thoughts, ideas, project examples and more examining the past, present and future of retail design. ...
EDITOR'S LETTER: Time for the Panic Button?
Sep 1, 2007, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
For years everyone connected to retail real estate has been saying that the good times couldn't last forever. But no one predicted the downfall could...
EDITOR'S LETTER: Giving Something Back
Aug 1, 2007, David Bodamer Editor-in-Chief Retail Traffic Magazine
Regular readers of Retail Traffic might notice something slightly different about my appearance at the top of this page. The long hair I used to have...
