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

2/3/2021
PREIT to show Just Love to Restaurants on Valentine’s Day
Like all malls and retail centers, PREIT is aggressively adding new food and beverage establishments to its tenant lineups and this Valentine’s Day wants to give its restaurant operators some extra loving care.

Al Urbanski
2/2/2021
Kimco initiates four new solar-energy projects at Northeastern centers
Walmart, Amazon, Apple, and Target are the top four installers of solar capacity in the United States, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.

Al Urbanski
2/2/2021
30-year-old BurgerFi president thinks the chain can be the Shake Shack of the South
In the 10 years since the first restaurant opened, BurgerFi has added 124 locations. Now a new owner and a listing on Nasdaq figure to fuel the chain's growth.

Al Urbanski
2/1/2021
Westfield Valley Fair enlists top ghost kitchen to spirit takeout orders
In a first-of-its-kind deal for Unibail Rodamco Westfield in the United States, Silicon Valley’s Westfield Valley Fair has welcomed in Kitchen United to ramp up takeout orders and deliveries.

Al Urbanski
2/1/2021
PREIT introduces self-storage at Maryland mall
PREIT, which quickly exited Chapter 11 and got back to the business of reshaping its mall portfolio, has executed a lease for a self-storage facility at the Mall at Prince George’s in Hyattsville, Md.

Al Urbanski
2/1/2021
Ingka buys and will preserve a Georgia forest as part of its move into the U.S.
Ingka Centres’ plan to move small-format Ikea stores into downtown shopping centers in major United States metros has just advanced further with Ingka Corporation’s purchase of 10,840 acres of Georgia forest land.

Al Urbanski
1/28/2021
InvenTrust hires Simon veteran to manage its Houston properties
Eleven-year Simon Property Group veteran Jennifer Pollock, who handled leasing at the Houston Galleria, has joined InvenTrust to manage leasing and development of its Houston properties.

Al Urbanski
1/26/2021
5Qs for Joe Coradino on Malls in the 21st Century
What mall owners everywhere started doing during the pandemic—replacing lost anchors with health care facilities, adding experiential tenants, giving failing properties back to the bank—Joe Coradino began doing almost 10 years ago at PREIT.

Al Urbanski
1/26/2021
Occupancy costs plagued non-essential retail tenants in 2020
For retail renters and landlords in 2020, there was little middle.

Al Urbanski
1/26/2021
Hawaii’s largest open-air center unveils post-pandemic image change
Brookfield’s 2.4 million-sq.-ft. Ala Moana Center has introduced a new logo and its first consumer-facing marketing program in 10 years.

Al Urbanski