Full CRE coverage of finance and investment in the retail real estate sector, including shopping centers, regional malls, outlet centers and other retail formats.
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...
Inventory shrinkage, a combination of employee theft, shoplifting, vendor fraud and administrative error, cost United States retailers over $31 billion a year according to the latest National Retail Security Survey report on retail theft, which...
When JCPenney left the Florence Mall in Florence, S.C., in 1992, mall owner Edens & Avant didn't scramble to find another department store to fill the anchor slot. Instead it quickly struck a deal with a restaurateur to fill the space. Some 10...
IN AN EXCERPT FROM HIS 1974 tome Minding the Store, Neiman-Marcus Chairman Emeritus Stanley Marcus offers a behind-the-scenes look at how a Dallas-based specialty store became one of the world's most recognized luxury merchants...
From UBS Warburg's Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot to Instinet's Redbook Retail Sales Average, economic indicators point to hard times for retailers. But for the outlet sector the news is somewhat less discouraging. When mainstream retailers'...
When Kmart Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Jan. 22, its stock price — which had reached a 52-week high of $13.55 in August — plummeted to an abysmal 66 cents...
In 1998, Manchester, N.H., authorities arrested eight protestors for picketing a Foot Locker store at the then-privately owned Mall of New Hampshire. A subsequent free speech lawsuit and enormous media coverage drew nationwide attention to the...
