It’s no secret that a successful retail center of any kind in 2019 — be it an outdoor center or an enclosed mall — must re-jigger its mix to include a wide variety of food, beverage, and entertainment-based tenants.

For more than 17 years, David Hinkle served as president of National Book Warehouse & The Book Market.

When Joe Coradino took the helm of big mall owner PREIT nearly a decade ago, he set a line at an average sales per sq. ft. of at least $500 per center.

Don M. Casto III’s father, Don M. Casto, Sr., started the Columbus-based Casto real estate company to develop single-family homes and shopping centers.

If you have stores in Slate Grocery centers in Minnesota, Illinois, or North Dakota, chances are you’ll now be dealing with real estate professionals from Pine Tree.

Bob Stark, whose Crocker Park in Westlake, Ohio, helped define the modern community-based town center, is stepping aside at Stark Enterprises.

Ridge Hill, a prime mixed-use center that sits atop a scenic hill in Yonkers, NY, is due for the kind of repositioning that made Avalon center the toast of Alpharetta, Ga.

Is the newly announced museum at Triple Five’s American Dream an actual attraction or just an absurd self-contradiction?

The numbers of on-premise diners at restaurants in Austin and Miami 25% are higher than they were in 2019. 

Galleria Dallas, known as the presenter of one of the best Christmas celebrations in mall-dom, has six new presents to offer its loyal shoppers.

PREIT has been doing it, CBL is doing it, and now another big mall owner is offering special lease terms to local and minority-owned businesses to add variety to its tenant lineups.

Cullinan Properties, developer of noted mixed-use projects such as Streets of St. Charles and The Levee District in East Peoria, has hired a new senior VP and director of investments.

A bold new color scheme brightens up Haagen-Dazs’s new shop design, something one might naturally expect from an artist named Jade Purple Brown.

Nearly nine of 10 consumers say they will be buying more at brick-and-mortar this year.

Westfield shoppers are willing to pay more for sustainable goods.

More than five million people in the United States applied for new business licenses in the transformational year of 2021, and one California mall is doing its part to get a few of them up and running.

The pet boarding chain that features splash pools and synthetic grass dog parks has announced an upscale upgrade for its animal healthcare services.

Topgolf fans who want to leave their lofty links balconies with food and drink service and play a little actual golf can now do so at its new venue in El Segundo, Calif.

Marketing director Valerie Cope says Mercato’s rebound from the pandemic in Naples, Fla., has been accelerated by the signing of six new tenants.

Unable to fill a 300,000-sq.-ft. space left vacant by Macy’s, Brookfield Properties has given up its attempt to save Water Tower Place, the first indoor mall built in Chicago.

A New Jersey-based real estate investment firm, most of whose 43 outdoor centers are found east of the Mississippi River, has purchased its first property in Texas.

Don Ghermezian has long held that his American Dream center is not a mall, but an entertainment brand.

What once was Michigan’s Mall of Monroe, between Detroit and Toledo, was devoid of traffic for years after the departure of anchors like Target and J.C. Penney’s.

With its latest acquisition, North American Properties claims to have achieved “critical mass” control over aspirational mixed-use developments in the tony North Atlanta suburbs.

An affiliate of First Washington Realty has acquired Donahue Schriber group to form one of the leading outdoor center operators with 150 properties.

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