Wal-Mart and Target are American icons. Both were born in 1962; Target in urban Minneapolis and Wal-Mart in the tiny town of Bentonville, Ark. For four decades, they have eaten away at the dominance of department stores in American retailing — so...

Space is a big concern in New England. Because of the lack of it, Newbury Street in Boston is able to command rents from $70 a square foot to more than $150 a square foot, putting it on the level of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Stanley Sidel...

Craig Trottier joined Indianapolis-based Lauth Property Group as vice president, director of development. Trottier, who has been responsible for developing more than 2.5 million square feet of shopping space in the western United States, was...

If you paraphrase Kenneth Wong's philosophies of architecture, shopping centers and the Internet, they all seem to boil down to this: Content creates destinations — magnets for people and their dollars...