In what is the largest shopping center portfolio purchase ever, Macquarie Countrywide Trust, an Australian limited property trust, and frequent joint venture partner, Regency Centers, in February announced the purchase of 101 shopping centers from...

After a long and rocky courtship, Federated Department Stores got its bride to say yes. In announcing the $17 billion merger with May Department Stores Federated CEO and chairman Terry Lundgren acknowledged that he has been "waiting for this day...

"Perhaps we should call them 'alls,' not 'malls,'" suggested Michael McCarty, president of the community centers division of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group. With the overwhelming trend toward hybridization of shopping centers, he said...