- Retail Roller Coaster
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Investors are maneuvering quickly to catch up with a retail property market that has done a 180 degree turn in the past year. This once hot sector has cooled considerably in the wake of the capital markets crisis, the residential
- A Strip Center Makeover
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The development, marketing, leasing, and management of a retail center is one of real estate's more complex and demanding endeavors. Regardless of how well positioned a retail center may be during its inception, new retail concepts, economic cycles, changing demographics,
- Shoppertainment
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Since their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, regional malls have suffered their share of hits. In the early 1990s, the trend toward power centers, which feature four or five big box category killers, provided increased competition for malls, especially
- New Rules for Retail
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The rules for retail are changing across America, almost as quickly as the holiday lights come down and the racks of valentines go up on Jan. 2. Wal Mart has morphed from the feared competitor into the good neighbor that
- Retail Goes Downtown
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At the Chatham Market retail center on Chicago’s South Side, shoppers may be surprised to find a new convenience store tucked in next to a Potbelly’s sandwich shop this summer Walmart Express. Slated to be its first urban location, the
- In the Retail Ring
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The retail property investment market looks a little like a battered prize fighter these days. It's down, but by no means out. Given the one two punch of the credit crisis and the tepid economic recovery, retail investment sales are
- Restoring Retail
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The 2001 holiday retail season was "the last gasp of the overly indulgent U. S. consumer. We cannot count on the U.S. consumer to carry the United States and the global economy on his back any longer," pronounced Stephen S.
- Retail Details
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Due to the economic downturn, property owners and real estate companies that work with retailers and restaurants have seen a record number of requests for restructured leases or renegotiated rental agreements. According to real estate industry experts, the trend is
- Retail's New Reality
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Imagine you’ve been cast to star in a new deal making reality TV show. The objective is to outwit the competition, overcome obstacles out of your control, and complete as many deals as possible — or risk elimination from the
- Rescuing Distressed Retail Real Estate
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“The developer bit off more than he could chew,” says Henry Englehardt, CCIM, senior vice president with Colliers International in Walnut Creek, Calif., explaining how Rocklin Crossroads, a mixed use retail property in Rocklin, Calif., fell into the hands of
- Retail Revitalization
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Increasing a retail property’s value is what investing is all about. And, today’s savvy investors aren’t waiting for inflation to push up the value of their properties – they are seeking creative ways to improve their assets’ financial health. From
- Retail Overstock: A Regional Roundup
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A variety of CCIMs provided commentary on their local markets for the May June 2010 cover story, “Retail Returns to the Ring.” The following roundup of regional retail markets in the U.S. gives voice to the valuable insights that could
- Reinventing Retail
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Across the country, the retail market is thriving as merchants ring up sales at a record setting pace. Retail sales rose by about 7 percent last year to reach almost $3 trillion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As a
- Retail Tenanting Techniques
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Upticks in consumer spending and hints at economic improvement are fueling some long awaited positive momentum in the retail sector. Despite the mild industry buzz, the latest data reports offer the view many property owners see when they look around
- Got Vacant Space? Think Inside the Box
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The good news about tough economic times is that they breed ingenuity. Leasing specialists in retail and other property sectors need to think “inside the box” – the vacant big box, the empty warehouse, or the small office building abandoned
- Retail Repositioning
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Your suburban retail center's anchor just declared bankruptcy and plans to shutter all of its stores. Meanwhile, two of your credit tenants are considering relocating to the new regional mall, which offers better amenities and more flexible space. To make
- Red Hot Retail
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Retail real estate is hot. Large retailers continue to drive new development and investor demand remains near record highs. As competition heats up for prime space in major U.S. metropolitan areas, retailers are expanding into secondary markets and even far
- A Breath of Fresh Air
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"From a new development point of view, it seems that three pillars have decided that open air is the best the municipalities that are approving these new centers, the tenants who are going in them, and the customers who are
- An Appetite for Retail
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Daily, it seems, the retail industry expands and contracts Lowe's announces plans to open 150 stores, and Casual Corner closes 350 stores. Kohl's sets its sights on 500 stores in the next five years, and Musicland closes 341 stores. Like
- Fashioning a New Look
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More than 43,000 neighborhood and community shopping centers exist in U.S. urban and suburban areas where regional megamalls are not geographically or demographically feasible. Ranging between 100,000 square feet and 120,000 sf and often anchored by a grocery store, these
- Down, but not Out
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Retail construction is a shadow of its former self with development activity falling to its lowest levels in more than a decade. Yet pockets of construction persist. An estimated 32 million square feet of new retail space is expected to
- Rethinking Retail
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Retail is one property sector that never has time to rest on its laurels. As they battle the lingering effects of the recession and increased online shopping competition, retailers are once again shifting store strategies. The steep economic downturn forced