Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund LLC is reaping the benefits of its retail development projects. It sold two properties in the past week and is closing its second fund -- which, at $600 million, is twice as much as its first round of investment in 2001...

In the first big retail deal of 2005, Mills Corp. has purchased two Midwest malls -- one in Minnesota and the other in Wisconsin -- from -- Blackstone Real Estate Advisors and Polaris Capital for $452 million. The two projects, the 1.3-million...

Gulf Coast cities are betting they'll beat the odds and attract retail investment along with more visitors to their casinos.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Fortune's most admired U.S. corporation for the past two years, is quickly becoming the most reviled. From contractors locking cleaning crews in stores overnight to the state of California complaining about the cost of...