The retail development business has—for all intents and purposes—been dead for much of the past two years. In fact, in 2009 the industry delivered the lowest amount of new space in at least 27 years...
Shopping center REITs continued to make headway in re-leasing vacant big box stores in the first quarter, leading to stable occupancies and smaller declines in same-store NOIs compared to 2009. Like their counterparts in the regional mall sector...
Slowly but surely, the retail real estate industry is embracing social networking. From Facebook to Twitter to LinkedIn to Foursquare, firms are increasingly experimenting with sharing information, reaching out to consumers and finding new ways to...