Any agreement to restore improvements in a shopping center after a casualty is risky because the costs may be substantial and the obligation arises at an unpredictable time. Restoration may not be economically justifiable under the market...
Dorsky Hodgson + Partners has been a leader in retail design ever since William Dorsky founded the firm 38 years ago. Among its first commissions was the design of a shopping center for Melvin Simon & Associates, a top developer that in its...
Innovative technological and financial strategies can nudge the often intractable problem of surplus property toward a solution. CB Richard Ellis, in fact, has virtually eliminated an enormous disposition problem for K-Mart through the application...
Many centers today are looking for ways to attract customers' attention, resulting in longer shopping times. Toronto-based water feature specialists Crystal Fountains believes it has the ability to make passersby stick around, "oohing" and "aahing...
Florida has long been regarded as a vast, sun-splashed playground where the more pedestrian concerns of everyday life are all but forgotten. In truth, living in Florida may not always be a day at the beach. Yet thousands of people, oblivious to...
At Shopping Center World's invitation, executives from some of the industry's leading design firms gathered to participate in a roundtable discussion of current issues facing retail owners and designers, including the growth of e-commerce and the...