Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty apparel chain Pacific Sunwear announced plans to increase its store base by 75 units in 2003, including at least 10 of the retailer’s new d.e.m.o. stores. The company currently operates 611 PacSun stores in 48...
Anyone who has been through a retail redevelopment venture knows that things don't always go as expected. If only you could see into the future and head off those inevitable surprises. Well, here's the next best thing: practical, time-tested...
When does 23,000 square feet cost $40 million to build? When it's the Prada New York Epicenter. Designed by architecture's visionary (and super-trendy) Rem Koolhaas, this gut renovation transformed the former Soho branch of the Guggenheim Museum...
In 1999, the City of New Haven pulled the plug on a proposal to build a megamall in the city's Long Wharf waterfront district. “The city wanted the mall,” says leasing agent Lou Proto, founder of the Proto Group, “but Westfield, which owns all the...
Federated Department Stores is deep-sixing its Macy's stores in the Deep South, in the face of Macy's losing battle for brand loyalty against regional sister chain Rich's. The Cincinnati-based conglomerate is closing its eight Macy's stores in...
Asbury Partners has provided a sneak peak of portions of the master plan for redeveloping Asbury Park, N.J., as a retail and entertainment destination (see New Life for a Legendary Seaside City, SCW, January). Highlights of renderings submitted to...
The busiest sales weekend of February disappeared under piles of snow. The winter storm that blanketed the East Coast on President's Day weekend 2003 shut down major cities and drove sales down nearly $422 million at stores in the Northeast during...
Speed is more important than ever in retail construction, as builders rush to shorten the lag time between groundbreaking and rent collection. And slow, conventional building methods aren't cutting it, sending developers in search of new...
Neil Fiske is the new CEO of Limited Brands' Bath & Body Works. Fiske, along with new President Ken Stevens, replaces retiring president and CEO Beth Pritchard. Fiske will focus on product development and seasonal and category planning...
Four historic Chicago storefronts will survive a massive retail and residential gut job thanks to a restoration process little-used in the United States. The only way to save the shops' 100-foot-by-200-foot masonry and terra cotta façades was to...
