Helping Hands
Dec 1, 2007, By Jennifer Popovec
Retail real estate is a social industry. An office or industrial developer isn't concerned with engaging trade areas or drawing in traffic to keep retailers...
Retailers on Tour
Nov 1, 2007
Although it doesn't include Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones or even Hannah Montana, a national tour featuring some names that are just as recognizable...
Creating a Big Bang
Nov 1, 2007, By Mike Janssen
Fake snow is falling, harried shoppers are gobbling granola bars on the go and Santa and Mrs. Claus are already alight at malls, creating a blizzard of...
Run for the Border
Nov 1, 2007, Riccardo A. Davis
Parking lots at shopping centers near the United States's northern border are suddenly jammed with vehicles with Canadian license plates as cross-border...
Back to the Future
Nov 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Libby Gronbach, a 15-year-old Connecticut native, spends a lot of time online, like most of her Generation Y peers. She watches videos on YouTube, checks...
Reeling Them In
Nov 1, 2007, By Patricia L. Kirk
Although mall marketing managers may be doing all they can to prolong the holiday shopping season and pulling out all the stops to keep consumers at their...
Forget Curfews. Try Mosquitos
Oct 1, 2007
An increasing number of U.S. mall owners are adopting curfews to control teen populations at their properties. But here's an interesting alternative being...
Clean Campaign
Oct 1, 2007, By Mike Janssen
Perhaps it is a sign that retail real estate has become a mature industry. After decades of flying under the radar screen of organized labor, malls have...
Return on Insurance
Oct 1, 2007, By Jennifer Popovec
Over the past few years the U.S. coasts have been hammered by hurricanes while the Midwest escaped disaster. In August that changed. The Midwest region...
Cracking Down on a 4-year Old
Oct 1, 2007
Security guards in a shopping center in Britain threatened to throw a 4-year-old girl out of the property for wearing a hooded sweatshirt, according to...
