Admiring how great cities provide variety and interest around every corner, real estate development teams are creating environments that are characterized by urban attributes. These projects win the affinity of the communities in which they are...
If legendary showman Cecil B. DeMille were still alive and directing not movies but shopping centers, I know he would have the attitude and passion necessary to compete in today's retail real estate environment...
Arlington, Va.-based The Mills Corp. announced late Wednesday that it will buy all of Simon Property Group’s interests in five jointly owned retail properties...
The advent of the conduit lender and creation of an efficient market for commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) in the mid-1990s was supposed to homogenize the commercial real estate lending business. People thought that once the secondary...
Nothing like recession to change the balance of power between landlords and tenants. “Over the last few years, clearly the landlord had the advantage,” says Andrew Goldberg, a senior managing director of Insignia/ESG's Retail Group in New York...
How do you make a bulldozer fashionable? That's a real marketing challenge I faced at SouthPark mall (where I work as marketing director) as we began a multi-year expansion and renovation project to include major department stores, specialty shops...
IN AN EXCERPT FROM HIS 1974 tome Minding the Store, Neiman-Marcus Chairman Emeritus Stanley Marcus offers a behind-the-scenes look at how a Dallas-based specialty store became one of the world's most recognized luxury merchants...
Some retail property investors have moved to the sidelines, waiting for the economy to sort itself out; others have remained active, but become much more selective about their acquisitions. While capital is seeking product types that represent...