In its 1960s heyday, Villa Italia, a 1.5 million-square-foot enclosed mall in Lakewood, Colo., was a luminary among regional centers. But by 2001 it stood empty, like the fossilized shell of a long-extinct animal, as 80,000 cars drove past daily...

The retail industry has been a mixed bag over the last 18 months. Despite a weak job market, declining confidence and falling stock prices, 2002 consumer spending increased by a healthy 3.8 percent (excluding cars)...

Retail Traffic Associate Editor David Sokol recently sat down with Max Steele, vice president of San Francisco-based architecture firm Gensler, to talk about the architect's role in remalling, trends that are influencing remalling projects and...

Of all urban markets, Manhattan has posed the greatest challenge to big-box retailers. From Wal-Marts in Los Angeles to Lowe's in Chicago, the discounters that have changed the face of suburban retailing have penetrated major cities. But not...