Globe Trotting
Dec 1, 2007
The trend of U.S.-based developers going international continued last month with three firms making big announcements about overseas initiatives. CBL...
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...
Canada Bound
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
Beachwood, Ohio-based Developers Diversified Realty Corp. has entered a joint venture to develop a project in Toronto, fueling speculation that the REIT...
DDR Dips Its Toe Into Canada
Oct 10, 2007
Faced with lower yields in the U.S., Beachwood, Ohio-based Developers Diversified Realty Corp. has entered a joint venture to develop a project in Toronto, fueling speculation that the REIT may be planning a larger push into Canada. ...
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...
One Small Step
Sep 1, 2007
Amid bad news at home (same-store sales were up only 1.2 percent in the second quarter of 2007, compared to 1.5 percent during the same period last year),...
Rally 2012
Sep 1, 2007, Riccardo A. Davis
Over the next five years the global real estate market is on pace to grow by nearly one half to $13.7 trillion according to a report in August by RREEF,...
IN PROGRESS: Dubai Sports City Retail Component
Jul 1, 2007
Location: Dubai Sports City, UAE Size: 1.7 million square feet Developer: Dubailand Opening: Fourth quarter 2009 Buzz: The development will feature three...
To Russia, with Dough
Jun 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
Cleveland, Ohio-based Developers Diversified Realty Corp. became the first U.S. REIT to announce a major development initiative targeting the Russian Federation and Ukraine...
DDR, Simon: To Russia, With Dough
May 17, 2007
Cleveland, Ohio-based Developers Diversified Realty Corp. became the first U.S. REIT to announce a major development initiative targeting the Russian Federation and Ukraine this week. ...
For the Better
May 1, 2007, Jennifer Popovec
Two of Europe's biggest commercial real estate firms have united to blaze a retail future together. Paris-based Rodamco Europe N.V. and Rotterdam-based Unibail Holdings S.A. is now the largest pan-European commercial real estate company...
Going for Germany
May 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
GE Real Estate, one of the more prominent American players in the European real estate market, has expanded its retail holdings in Germany. In late March, the firm bought 15 retail centers there for approximately $40 million....
Our Men in Nanjing
Mar 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
Chattanooga-based mall REIT CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. is making its first foray overseas with an investment in the subsidiaries of the Jinsheng Group, a Nanjing, China-based shopping center developer....
Were's the McSchnitzel?
Feb 1, 2007
There's been plenty of opposition to McDonald's in recent years. The German village of Geschendorf came up with a new angle. The village has stopped a McDonald's from opening on its outskirts because it doesn't sell sausages and sauerkraut....
Communists at Wal-Mart?
Jan 1, 2007
Employees at the China headquarters of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have set up a Communist Party branch. ...
TRAFFIC PATTERNS
Jan 1, 2007
YIELDS AHEAD European retail properties deliver yields as low as 2.75 percent in Dublin and as high as 17 percent in Moscow. Annual rents also vary greatly....
ASIA: Beyond China and India
Aug 1, 2006, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Western Developers are revisiting the Pacific Rim and looking for investment oppurtunities...
Latin Flavor
Jul 1, 2006, Elaine Misonzhnik
Jones Lang is moving into the Dominican Republic having gained leasing and marketing assignments in Santo Domingo...
North Wind
Jul 1, 2006, By Albert Warson
Mixed-use projects are beginning to proliferate in Canada as the trend gripping America crosses the border...
Running to Catch Up
May 1, 2006, By Jennifer Popovec
Europe, Asia are working hard to develop REIT markets...
Saks in China?
May 1, 2006, David Sokol
Saks Fifth Avenue has opened an 300,000 square foot store in Shanghai China...
Arab Baby Phat
May 1, 2006
Phat Fashions opened its first three flagship stores in the Middle East and has plans to build 14 more. The first stores opened in the Mall of Emirates,...
Black Gold Rush
May 1, 2006
And you thought all the action was in Dubai. In Abu Dhabi, the capital city of United Arab Emirates, Sorough Real Estate is transforming Reem Island into...
Cherry Picking
May 1, 2006, By Jennifer Popovec
Retail investors crave global exposure so much that spending inside the US is dropping...
Feast in the Mideast
May 1, 2006, By Steve Bergsman
Everything is bigger in Dubai, including the malls...
