Mills officially ended its agreement with Brookfield Asset Management and entered a new one with Simon Property Group and Farallon Capital Management. On Tuesday, Mills announced it had determined Simon's offer was "superior" to agreement it had...

We've received a lot of inquiries about Retail Traffic's 2007 SADI Awards. The competition has been pushed back slightly, but we're set to go. All the information is available here. For last year's winners, go here.

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Mall developer The Mills Corp. said Tuesday that it now plans to accept a $1.6 billion takeover bid by Simon Property Group Inc. and the hedge fund Farallon Capital Management LLC, spurning a lower offer from Canadian company Brookfield Asset...

An 18-year-old gunman in a trench coat who fired a shotgun randomly at customers, killing five and wounding four before being killed by police, authorities and witnesses said. ... Killed were two 28-year-old women, a 52-year-old man, a 24-year...

Tesco has secured 20 sites in Phoenix as it begins its U.S. push in earnest. ...

According to the Atlantic Yards Report, Joseph Sitt of Thor Equities, the company behind the proposed Coney Island makeover, has learned a thing or two by watching the Atlantic Yards saga play out. ...

Labelscar, one of the blogs Retail Traffic profiled in December, wonders if Mills imminent takeover means the death of Tewksbury Mills. ...

Retail Traffic is conducting its annual survey of the retail real estate industry's top owners and managers. The information obtained in this survey will be published in our April 2007 issue. We will rank the top U.S. owners and top managers of...

Real Estate Bloggers has a piece about a new U.S. Real Estate futures index that will begin trading n the Chicago Exchange. The index will focus on REITs.