About 10 days ago, Taubman Centers and Shop America Alliance LLC in partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce/Office of Travel & Tourism Industries (DOC/OTTI) released the International Shopping Traveler. ...

Here is a post-RECon roundup of interesting stories from the past week or so. I've tried to categorize them a bit rather than presenting a single list since there are so many interesting links here. ...

S&K Famous Brands, which filed for bankruptcy in February, has now decided to close its remaining stores. Two weeks after filing, the firm moved to close about 30 stores. Now, three months later, it is shuttering the rest. ...

Although attendance is markedly down from the heights reached in 2007 and 2008, the mood of the annual ICSC RECon is far from morbid. According to ICSC, more than 30,000 people have registered for the event, although most attendees on the floor...

Here are some news and notes on retail and retail real estate from around the Web. ...

I've been tweeting as regularly as I can from the ICSC RECon show floor. You can see my tweets here. Here I'll provide some observations on what the first full day of the show was like...

It's been a long day. But ICSC's RECon has just begun. ...

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Steven Roth, chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, is stepping aside. He will remain Chairman. And Michael Fascitelli, president, will now be the CEO as well. According to the company's release: ...