Analysis and insights on commercial real estate property management across the office, retail, multifamily and industrial sectors as well as the alternative CRE property types.
Sam Walton believed in strict control — of store operations, of product quality and most certainly of expenses. Walton's dedication to keeping his hands on the wheel played a big part in parlaying his first enterprise, a franchised Ben Franklin in...
In November, gifting is all any retailer wants to talk about. But come January, it's a forgotten topic. And that's a missed marketing opportunity for retailers, especially department stores...
Gary Safady's working the crowd hard. Animated and tieless, he's manning the O&S Holdings booth at a jammed ICSC conference in New York, touting the attractions of his company's big new developments, Louisiana Riverwalk in Bossier City, La....
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...
Fast backward to Lake Forest, Illinois, 1916. Chicago architect Arthur Aldis called a trend when he convinced Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., to form the Lake Forest improvement trust to build Market Square. It was to be a shopping complex of 28 stores...
There's an old saying that no job is tougher than the one you take for granted. That could certainly be said about SNDAs and estoppels, two mainstay documents of lease administration that are all-too-frequently overlooked...
