ICSC Las Vegas 2006
ICSC Las Vegas 2006
Gazit, Mills Reach Deal on Board Nominations 
Dec 6, 2006
After a bit of arm-twisting from Gazit-Globe Ltd., the Mills Corp. announced new nominations to its board of directors on Tuesday, to be approved at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on Dec. 29...
Defining Mixed-Use
Dec 6, 2006
In the past few years, as the idea of mixed-use development has gained cachet among investors, developers have thrown around the term pretty loosely. To counter that, a panel of experts at the New York ICSC Dealmaking show this week, tried to once again invest the term with a precise meaning. ...
Private Equity Dominates ICSC New York Chatter
Dec 6, 2006
The issue of privatization—both for retailers and real estate companies—has been a dominant theme at the New York National Conference and Dealmaking, which concludes today...
It’s All About Development
May 24, 2006, By David Bodamer
Mall companies are going back to their roots and massively growing the industry’s development pipeline, whether they are trendy concepts like urban projects, lifestyle centers and mixed-use complexes or the bread-and-butter neighborhood and community centers....
The Ghost of ICSC Past
May 23, 2006, By Geoff Lewis
It’s déjà vu time again in Las Vegas, where there seems to be a permanent Rat Pack soundtrack playing — you can’t enter an elevator or almost any indoor space without hearing Frank or Deano or Keely Smith or another 1950s swinger on the Muzak. The sprawling Las Vegas Convention Center may also be playing these tunes, but you can’t hear it over the enthusiastic din of what the ICSC says is a record crowd — 46,000 — for its annual spring convention. ...
CoStar Takes Deep Plunge into Mall Data Ocean
May 22, 2006, By David Bodamer
On the eve of last year’s ICSC Convention in Las Vegas, CoStar sealed a deal to purchase mall data supplier National Research Bureau from publisher VNU. To hype the industrial/office data company’s move into the retail market, CoStar hired a model to pose as a bride with visitors to the CoStar booth, where they could enter a contest to win a Porsche Carrera Cabriolet....
The Mall Becomes TV Land -- Again
May 22, 2006, By David Bodamer
In-mall and in-store TV is an idea whose time has come—again. A decade after special mall-based TV networks came (and largely went), they are making a comeback. At the ICSC Convention in Las Vegas today, Urban Retail Properties Co. will unveil a new in-store television network, called URTV, aimed at retailers. The announcement follows a May 12 announcement by Simon Property Group that it will deploy a new network....
