The massive popularity of retail real estate and the resulting shrinking cap rates has helped give new life to an old structure: mezzanine financing. Though it's been around for a long time, investors use of mezzanine debt and equity has risen in...

Secondary markets are, in fact, afforded secondary status by most developers. But, one, Red Development, has made smaller markets its primary target, and, in so doing, has built a 12 million-square-foot business in 11 years and helped spotlight...

Feldman Mall Properties — which focuses on renovating and repositioning enclosed regional malls in secondary markets — had a dilemma on its hands. Feldman purchased the Tallahassee Mall in July 2005 for just over $60 million. But it didn't have...

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