Is it better to renovate or rebuild? That is the question facing developers and retailers as aging shopping centers and freestanding stores need to be either spruced up — or bulldozed and rebuilt from scratch...

Carter & Burgess specializes in bringing retail ideas to reality, providing the cutting edge in design, planning, architecture, full engineering services and environmental graphics from a single source...

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What's a guy to do when, after eight years of managing one of the industry's highest-profile portfolios of retail and entertainment properties, his firm gets out of the business? Ask Lee Wagman...

If you paraphrase Kenneth Wong's philosophies of architecture, shopping centers and the Internet, they all seem to boil down to this: Content creates destinations — magnets for people and their dollars...

Architects and urban planners have been effusive in their praise of "New Urbanist" mixed-use projects. They are seen as the perfect antidote to the bland, cookie-cutter developments that have spread across America-along with the interstates and...

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In its 1960s heyday, Villa Italia, a 1.5 million-square-foot enclosed mall in Lakewood, Colo., was a luminary among regional centers. But by 2001 it stood empty, like the fossilized shell of a long-extinct animal, as 80,000 cars drove past daily...

The design-build project delivery method, for years considered the Tinker Toy division of general contracting, is transforming the commercial construction industry. Attracted by guaranteed prices and substantial cost and time savings, commercial...

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