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April 25, 2013
SRS Real Estate, Cresa create lease admin company

SRS Real Estate Partners and Cresa announced an agreement to form a new company to perform lease administration services for retail, office and industrial clients.

January 30, 2013
Paster names leasing agent

Paster Enterprises announced the hiring of Mike Sturdivant as a leasing agent for the company.

December 3, 2012
Brixmor announces multiple leases with Ross Dress for Less

Brixmor Property Group announced four lease executions with Ross Dress for Less across the Brixmor portfolio.

November 27, 2012
Focus on: Shopping Center Management

If there is one booming business inside the shopping center industry, it’s that of third-party management. 

Shopping center management — whether you’re talking operational control, marketing programs and strategies, or leasing — is growing by leaps and bounds, as owners find alternative ways to fill the coffers when new construction is at a standstill.

November 14, 2012
How to Build Better Franchisee/Franchiser Relationships, and Better Buildings

By Shane Kavanagh and Tricia Downing, FRCH Design Worldwide

September 24, 2012
Books-A-Million leases former Borders location

Metro Commercial Real Estate announced that Books-A-Million has signed a lease for a 30,077-sq.-ft. former Borders located at 101 Geoffrey Drive in Christiana (Wilmington), Del.

September 24, 2012
Rent Commencement and Construction

By Sandra Gold Slon, attorney, Los Angeles-based TroyGould

August 27, 2012
Best Buy and Schulze in due diligence deal

Best Buy Co. announced that it has agreed to let founder and former chairman Richard Schulze conduct due diligence and form an investment group with private equity sponsors as he tries to take the retailer private.

August 15, 2012
Focus on: Landlord/Tenant Partnerships

Last June, two organizations — Retail Industry Leaders Association and International Council of Shopping Centers — co-sponsored a sustainability initiative that ultimately would set the bar for landlord/tenant partnerships.

The last 14 months haven’t been without bumps. Forging positive, mutually beneficial programs that involve cooperation from shopping center owners and their retail tenants has long been one of this industry’s greatest — and most frustrating — challenges.

April 19, 2012
Divaris completes leases for 
over 80,000 sq. ft.

Divaris Real Estate Inc. announced the following lease transactions were completed for several retail tenants:

February 6, 2012
DDR Launches FranchiseConnect

Shopping center owner and manager DDR Corp. announced Monday the launch of FranchiseConnect, a new online platform connecting shopping centers, franchise opportunities and entrepreneurs.

November 21, 2011
Blakeney announces new leases, expansions

CNL Crosland Commercial Real Estate announced two new tenant signings and an expansion for an existing retailer at Blakeney, a retail shopping center in south Charlotte, N.C.

November 1, 2011
Stein Mart completes new bank credit facility

Stein Mart said it has completed a new $100 million senior secured revolving credit facility with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. to replace an existing $150 million revolving credit facility, which was maturing in early 2012.

October 10, 2011
You Can’t Avoid FASB Changes Forever

By Andy Thomas, president and COO, Virtual Premise, Inc.

September 20, 2011
Applebee’s franchisee selects JobApp for hiring solution

Restaurant operator, The Rose Group, a 59-unit Applebee's and four-unit Corner Bakery Café franchisee, said Tuesday it has selected JobApp Network as its automated hiring solution to improve restaurant hiring, manage compliance and maximize employee tax credits.

April 4, 2011
Lease exit strategy subleases

Sandra Gold Slon, real estate partner, TroyGould

March 1, 2011
High rent, wrong use?

Some highly unusual tenant mixes have been popping up everywhere in the retail market over the past couple of years.

February 23, 2011
Regency Centers names leasing agent in Baltimore and New England markets

cksonville, Fla.-based Regency Centers said it has named Jack deVilliers as leasing agent in Baltimore, Maryland and the New England area.

February 16, 2011
Survey: Only 7% of companies are well prepared to comply with new leasing standards

Only 7% of executives believe their companies are extremely or very prepared to comply with new lease accounting standards proposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), according to a recent Deloitte survey.

February 10, 2011
Driving M&A Success in 2011

The increased pace of merger and acquisition activity late in 2010, including some huge deals, suggests that 2011 will be an active year. Low interest rates, significant cash on many firms’ balance sheets, and stock prices that are low enough to attract buyers but high enough to move sellers off the sidelines all reinforce that possibility.


December 3, 2010
RKF retained as leasing agent for Elevation Burger franchisee

Robert K. Futterman & Associates said it has been retained as the exclusive retail leasing agent for the Manhattan franchisee of Elevation Burger, which controls the chain’s locations south of 50th Street and is currently the only Manhattan franchisee.

December 1, 2010
Focus on: Smart Growth 
Chains, big and small, plot growth with caution

Eighteen months ago, the word in retail was contraction. Talk of expansion was mostly shelved, pending some kind of palpable turnaround in the economy.


October 14, 2010
Park Tower Group announces retail lease renewals

Park Tower Group said Thursday that three high-end retailers have renewed their leases at 535...

October 12, 2010
Lucernex partners with Fell to expand lease admin services

Real estate solution-provider Lucernex Technologies said Tuesday it has partnered with Fell Lease Administration LLC,...

October 11, 2010
Subordination, Non-Disturbance and Attornment (SNDA): What does it mean? Why do tenants care?

What is an SNDA? Tenants who become tired when reading complex and lengthy leases may be tempted to skip over a paragraph at the end of the document that starts with the words “Subordination, Non-disturbance, and Attornment” (SNDA).  However, the SNDA language has taken on new importance in this economic environment in which it is no longer shocking to learn that a commercial landlord has walked away from the mortgage on his major office building. 

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