Two months after selling Equity Office Properties to Blackstone for $39 billion and in the middle of his attempt to acquire the Tribune Co., Sam Zell addressed a REIT symposium at New York University. There he predicted real estate would remain...

Macy's is testing quick-serve eateries at several stores in Florida. ...

Women's Wear Daily reported that ...

The Easter shift helped make March a good month for retailers with same-store sales rising a higher-than-expected 5.7 percent (compared with projections of a 4 percent gain). ...

Target Corp. has said it plans to open 500 stores in the next five years. That will leave it with 2,000 stores in the U.S., still a fair bit below Wal-Mart's roster of 1,063 Wal-Mart discount stores, 2,285 Supercenters, 582 Sam's Clubs and 116...

Pittsburgh Homes Daily has done an incredible job compiling a list of 750 real estate blogs. Every state is represented. The vast majority are residential real estate blogs, but there are a handful of commercial real estate blogs in the mix.

Figuring out how best to serve Baby Boomers remains a key question for the retail industry. Apparently, there's still a lot to be learned. ...

Here's an interesting piece from one of our sister publications, Chief Marketer called Why Federated Is Right and Wanamaker Was Wrong. ...

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Suddenly, the mainstream media is abuzz with the story that malls are increasingly employing curfews, a subject Retail Traffic tackled in March and in 2003. ...