With the tremendous pullback in consumer spending, neighborhood and community shopping centers recorded negative net absorption of 8.2 million square feet in the first quarter of 2009. That number is almost as large as the total for all of 2008...
Amid retailer closings and bankruptcies, value-oriented chains shine.
Investors savor higher cap rates and a lack of competition.
For the past year, the retail real estate industry has been waiting with bated breath for some kind of resolution on the fate...