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...
Global Power
Oct 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
International real estate services giant Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. plans to expand its operations in China, with one of the company's senior executives...
Curbing the Mall Drive-Thru
Sep 1, 2007, By Riccardo A. Davis
In the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers, one of the most famous scenes is an over-the-top car chase in which Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi, on the run from...
On Capitol Hill
Sep 1, 2007, By Mike Janssen
Although the tremors in the credit markets mean that a lot of attention is being paid to what happens on Wall Street, the shopping center industry also...
What's New In Curfews
Sep 1, 2007
In March, Retail Traffic examined the sudden proliferation of curfews at retail properties across the country. At that time 39 properties in the country...
California Greening
Sep 1, 2007, By Patricia L. Kirk
A few years ago developers claimed that retail development was an unrealistic goal for retail development because multitenant projects can't be expected...
Shifting Tides Shopping by the Seashore
Jul 18, 2007
With summer temperatures heating up, tis the season for vacationers to head to the seashores. The throngs of sun worshippers can be gold for developers – particularly developers of outlet malls – as shopping for bargains has become as much a part of the season as searching for seashells....
