Retail Recovery Will Be Rocky, Edens & Avant CEO Predicts
May 24, 2010, By Matt Valley, NREI Editor-in-Chief
Terry Brown could never be accused of being pollyannish about the health of the U.S shopping center industry....
Quality Counts
May 1, 2010, SY PERKOWITZ, AIA, PE President and CEO Perkowitz + Ruth Architects
Renovating an under-performing property can have a powerful effect that reverberates throughout a community. In recent years, we have seen plans for tear-downs...
Quick Fixes
May 1, 2010, KATHERYNE L. ZELENOCK Member of the Real Estate Practice, Dickinson Wright PLLC
Your company has well-organized lease templates and a pretty thorough catalog of standard (the provisions that you use for the most typical tenant lease...
Hanging Tough
May 1, 2010, BERNARD J. HADDIGAN
Single-tenant retailers will operate cautiously in 2010 as the economy enters a choppy recovery and consumer confidence increases slowly. That sobriety...
Passing the Test
May 1, 2010, TERRY S. BROWN Chief Executive Officer Edens & Avant
Every decade a challenging economic environment and capital markets liquidity crisis seems to reshape real estate capital formation, institutional investment...
Generating a Spark
May 1, 2010, By Jennifer Popovec
The commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market is beginning to defrost faster than many had expected, but definitely slower than anyone had hoped....
Working Things Out
May 1, 2010, KRIS COOPER Managing Director with Jones Lang LaSalle's Retail Investment Sales Group
Mark Twain once lamented that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated. So too have reports of impending doom in commercial real estate, particularly...
Social Shopping Science
May 1, 2010, SAM FEUER CEO MindSmack/FastMall
It's no secret that traffic at American shopping malls has declined in recent years. Retail sales are down as a result of the Great Recession. In addition,...
Thompson Sees Opportunity to Invest in Retail Real Estate
Dec 11, 2009, David Bodamer
This summer, Thompson launched TNP Strategic Retail Trust Inc. The non-traded REIT is aimed at investing in neighborhood multi-tenant grocery-anchored shopping centers and free standing single-tenant retail properties, primarily in the Western United States. It will also offer mortgage, mezzanine, bridge and other loans related to commercial real estate....
Political Savvy
Dec 1, 2009
Getting new projects built today requires more than a good vision and a nifty design. People overwhelmingly oppose any new development in their neighborhoods....
