Consumer electronics is no longer the realm of the macho man who knows all about woofers and wi-fi. Retailers have discovered that women play a significant role in purchasing consumer electronics, says Jim Neal, principal with Kurt Salmon...
CBL & Associates Properties has started a 140,000-square-foot expansion to the 1.1 million-square-foot Fayette Mall in Lexington, Ky. The expansion will include an 80,000-square-foot Dick's Sporting Goods and seven new stores. Dick's is...
Accruent, a developer of contract management software for retailers, acquired competitor Tequila software Oct. 25 for an undisclosed amount, according to Accruent CEO Mark Friedman. The deal will officially be announced at the National Retail...
Car owners aren't the only ones carefully watching high gas prices. Market analysts who cover discount retail stores are also keeping a sharp lookout on creeping costs at the pump. With crude oil approaching $53 on the Nymex, the sentiment on Wall...
REIT managers' jobs will get a little bit easier thanks to provisions that were tacked onto the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 that both the House and Senate passed last week. Most significantly, REITs will be able to avoid the fate that...
With a 55 million-square-foot expansion announced this week, Wal-Mart is set to squeeze supermarkets further. Stores in strip malls have plenty to worry about with the world's largest retailer's plans renovation and expansion of existing stores...
I was enjoying fried plantain and sipping yerba maté tea, a mainstay in South America I'm told, immersing myself in the Latin spirit of Dolphin Mall, outside central Miami and five miles west of the airport. It's easy to feel a south-of-the-border...
The future home of Dallas's Victory center was once a 72-acre industrial wasteland, polluted by an old paint factory, a meatpacking plant and a train yard. It included a 100-year-old grain silo that had been forgotten by time...
