Savvy Retailers Snatch Leases Out of Other Chains’ Bankruptcies
Sep 23, 2009
As the number of bankruptcies continues to mount, retailers with stable financial footings are making silk purses from other retailer's sows' ears...
Walgreens Slows Down To Boost Profits
Sep 23, 2009, Lauren Shepherd
After years of strong growth, Deerfield, Ill.-based drugstore chain Walgreen Co. is slowing down in a bid to boost profits and reinvest its capital into its current store portfolio...
Retailers Look to Fill Vacancies in Chicago’s Loop and Affluent Shopping Districts
Sep 22, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
It's time to move back to the city. That's the conclusion that many national and local retailers seem to be drawing about Chicago...
Forced to Count Every Dollar, Retailers Re-evaluate Site Selection Practices
Sep 15, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Amid all the not-so-great news reported during the dog days of summer—weak back-to-school sales, falling rental rates—there were signs the retail industry might be coming out of hibernation...
Retailers Begin To Show Some Signs of Life, But New Leasing Deals Continue To Pose Challenges
Sep 1, 2009
As the U.S. economy has begun to show minor signs of improvement, so has the outlook for retail leasing...
How the Downturn Alters the Retail Site Selection Process (8/19)
Aug 19, 2009
Even as retailers cut back on new store growth, many are still looking to either expand in an existing market or open in a new one at some point in the next year...
July News Roundup (7/22)
Jul 22, 2009
June same-store sales, as expected, came in negative. According to Retail Metrics, same-store sales fell 4.3 percent...
Riese Brings Tim Horton’s into New York Market to Grab New Business (7/22)
Jul 22, 2009, By Lauren Shepherd
In the space of one weekend, 12 Dunkin' Donuts stores and one Dunkin' cart had turned into new locations for the Canadian chain best known for its homemade doughnuts, Tim Hortons Inc...
SRC Offers Demographics, Free and Now (7/22)
Jul 22, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
SRC, an Orange, Calif.-based provider of geographic business intelligence, says that in 2008 it posted a 20 percent year-over-year increase in total revenue...
Grocers Increasingly Taking Over Vacant Big Boxes (7/21)
Jul 21, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
What the deals getting done have in common is that grocers are picking off the choice locations first...
