Northwest
Savvy Owners and Retailers Look to Find Opportunities Despite California's Challenges
Sep 28, 2010, By Patricia Kirk
The Golden State's lower land values and construction costs have created advantageous conditions for owners to upgrade assets while the market’s reduced rents have encouraged retailers to open new stores. ...
Mall Case Shows How Municipalities May Use “Blight” to Evade Post-Kelo Rules
Aug 4, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
A dispute over a mall in Colorado shows how cities may attempt to use blight to circumvent eminent domain rules....
To fill California’s gaping budget deficit, the government may squeeze retailers and retail real estate owners
Aug 26, 2009, By Brad Berton
As if conditions aren’t tough enough for California retail property developers - particularly those seeking tenants amid so much vacant space - a troubling specter looms...
Gold Turns to Dust as California Faces Consequences of Past Excess
Aug 26, 2009
After riding at the forefront of the real estate boom in both the residential and commercial sectors in the mid 2000s, California seems to be having a particularly difficult time returning to some semblance of normalcy...
Brownfield Bet
Nov 1, 2008
Even as the U.S. struggles through a severe housing slump, a weak economy and a financial crisis, LNR Property Corp.'s Commercial Property Group and Hopkins...
California briefs
Sep 1, 2008
Colliers Macaulay Nicolls will consolidate operations in the Greater Los Angeles region to improve operational efficiencies. Currently the company operates...
Treading Water
Sep 1, 2008, By Jennifer Popovec
California has more expenses than revenue. And that's causing a fiscal headache for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is seeking approval of his 2008-2009...
California: The Show Must Go On
Sep 1, 2002, BY JOHN MCCLOUD
California may be feeling more than its share of pain from the nationwide recession, but you would never know it from looking at the state's retail industry....
AREA REVIEW: Being there
Aug 1, 2001, By Paula Stephens
Here's a riddle: What regional market is so desirable that retailers take numbers to expand there yet this same market severely constricts retail development?...
