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...

Bonus depreciation for the cost of tenant improvements just keeps getting better. First came the federal economic stimulus package in 2002 that contained a temporary provision for owners and tenants to deduct 30% of eligible non-residential...

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...

Dorsky Hodgson + Partners ...

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...

As the shopping center industry reaches maturity, the gulf between the top malls and class B and Class C properties is widening...

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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Procter & Gamble has selected Jones Lang LaSalle for its 5-year global corporate facilities and project management contract. The firms expect to reach a definitive agreement by the end of this month...