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

10/6/2020
Apex Entertainment re-opens at Destiny USA
Apex Entertainment this week re-opened its 50,000-sq.-ft. activity center at Destiny USA, Pyramind Management’s 2.4 million-sq.-ft. retail, dining, and entertainment center in Syracuse, N.Y.

Al Urbanski
10/5/2020
Regal Cinemas re-closes; will shut down all 536 locations
After commencing a re-opening in August, Regal Cinemas has once again shut down all 536 of its theaters following MGM/Universal announcement of the delay of “No Time to Die,” the new James Bond Film.

Al Urbanski
10/4/2020
New co-CEO aims to make American Dream a digital destination
Unlike his cousin Don, who has spent most of the last 10 years re-shaping the Mills Corporation’s stymied Xanadu project in New Jersey into American Dream, Mark Ghermezian opted not to begin his professional career in the family business.

Al Urbanski
9/30/2020
MainPlace Mall takes discounts digital with loyalty app
MainPlace Mall will handle social distancing by dispatching loyal customers to the stores they like for the discounts they want.

Al Urbanski
9/30/2020
American Dream re-opens on October 1 – with retail
Seventeen years after the project had its beginnings the New Jersey Meadowlands—Triple Five’s third mega-mall opens its doors to the public on Thursday.

Al Urbanski
9/29/2020
New grocery-anchored center planned for Naperville
Thompson Thrift Retail Group will build its first center in Naperville.

Al Urbanski
9/29/2020
North Carolina mall gets a new life for Christmas
A May 2019 review of the Randolph Mall in Asheboro, N.C., by “Pawlover”, said, “This mall probably won't last too much longer, which is a bit sad.” Well, Pawlover, cheer up. The mall is making a comeback.

Al Urbanski
9/27/2020
Norfolk seeks developer to take over Military Circle Mall
Not all mall owners have the talent or temerity to turn an old, outdated mall into a mixed-use town center, especially if that owner is the city of Norfolk, Va.

Al Urbanski
9/27/2020
Poag center receives bio-risk accreditation from sanitation association
The Avenue Viera, a 600,000-sq.-ft. outdoor shopping center in Viera, Fla., has become the first center in America to win the Global Biorisk Advisory Council’s GBAC Star accreditation.

Al Urbanski
9/24/2020
Syracuse mall asks tenants to leave, shuts for good
Gov. Andrew Cuomo stalled the opening of malls in New York, requiring that air filtration systems be upgraded before they could allow customers in, but ShoppingTown Mall in DeWitt, N.Y., could only let in the rain.

Al Urbanski
9/22/2020
Cushman veterans exit to form ‘new age’ retail brokerage
The Cushman & Wakefield brokers who helped Restoration Hardware and Showfields forge a new era in experiential retail in New York City have left the firm to cultivate the trend within their own company.

Al Urbanski
9/22/2020
Westfield introduces SafeGuard hygiene certification at malls
One of the most troubling issues mall owners and operators are attempting to get a handle on as they prepare for the holiday season is convincing shoppers that their properties are safe.

Al Urbanski