Al Urbanski

Real Estate Editor & Manager

Author Profile

Al Urbanski is the real estate editor of Chain Store Age. He has covered CSA’s retail real estate beat since he joined the brand in 2016.

Al is a veteran of the retail and and consumer products marketing industry, with more than 30 years of reporting experience. Over the course of his career, he served as the chief editor for a variety of publications, including Sales & Marketing Management, Food & Beverage Marketing, Promo and others.

Al is a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.

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ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

6/17/2020
Retail tenants' rent payments increased by 15% in June

Al Urbanski
6/16/2020
5Qs for Bob Myers on rapid re-opening

Al Urbanski
6/16/2020
CBRE names new retail chief in the Mid-Atlantic

Al Urbanski
6/14/2020
COVID-19 helps Miami’s Lincoln Road Promenade attract new tenants

Al Urbanski
6/11/2020
92% of Phillips Edison tenants are back in business
With COVID-19 cases steadily declining and states allowing non-essential retailers to re-open, retail centers are finally starting to get back to normal.

Al Urbanski
6/10/2020
Will one-third of American malls be closed by the end of 2021?
The retail industry is certainly expecting its COVID-19 casualty list to be high, but is it possible that one-third of all malls will cease to exist at the end of 2021?

Al Urbanski
6/10/2020
Pandemic layoffs occur at ICSC
Just a few weeks after RECon, the real estate industry’s largest trade show, would have taken place, the International Council of Shopping Centers laid off a significant portion of its workforce.

Al Urbanski
6/10/2020
5Qs for Carla Ferber on how tech will drive post-pandemic retail
Owners and operators of shopping malls and outdoor centers have never been known as early adopters of technology, but that most certainly is going to change in the post-pandemic era.

Al Urbanski
6/9/2020
Former Sephora CEO: Pandemic is making retail do what it should have done years ago
In 2020’s first quarter, Sephora threatened to close the 600 shops it operates inside J.C. Penney stores before coming to an agreement to keep them open.

Al Urbanski
6/8/2020
Namdar acquires Connecticut mall, its seventh this year
As American malls begin a return to operations in a revised retail environment, Namdar Realty Group pursues its standard strategic mission of snapping up viable malls in B and C markets.

Al Urbanski