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

9/8/2020
Report: COVID-19 has forced brick-and-mortar brands to find their futures on the web
Months after the COVID-19 virus hit and the retail world was floored, Best Buy achieved an 81% sales retention though most of its doors were closed.

Al Urbanski
9/7/2020
San Francisco is going to get a new mall—from Ikea
One sees more stories about old malls closing during the COVID-19 pandemic, not new ones opening.

Al Urbanski
9/7/2020
5Qs for Nikki Traff on mall tenants going to outdoor centers
Colliers International’s executive managing director Nikki Traff has claimed to increase net operating incomes for landlords by $2 million in 18 months by re-tenanting shopping centers. We spoke with her to find out more.

Al Urbanski
9/3/2020
August sees uptick in retail rent collections, but total’s still below 80%
Retail center landlords received 79.7% of their rent checks in August, just a two-percentage-point improvement over July.

Al Urbanski
9/2/2020
Retail to open at American Dream on October 1
H&M, Primark, and Zara will finally open their stores at American Dream—Triple Five’s long-stalled New Jersey mega-mall—on Oct. 1.

Al Urbanski
8/31/2020
Ocala center to build a new Publix from the ground up
Ever since FedEx opened a 400,000 distribution center in Ocala, Fla., four years ago, business has been livelier at nearby Pearl Britain Plaza—so much so that a new and improved Publix will be constructed at the center.

Al Urbanski
8/31/2020
Art-packed Area 15 debuts on Sept. 17 in Las Vegas
The developers of AREA15 in Las Vegas envisioned an art-inspired consumer bazaar with a 23-ft.-high Japanese maple tree festooned with LED lights and something called The Beast Pop-Up Food Experience.

Al Urbanski
8/31/2020
Rent collections tick up at Kimco properties
Kimco announced that traffic, occupancy rates, and rent collections continued trending upward in August.

Al Urbanski
8/30/2020
5Qs for Adam Flatto on Easton Town Center's progress during the pandemic
Wondering how Easton Town Center has fared during COVID-19, we talked to its developer, Adam Flatto, CEO of The Georgetown Companies.

Al Urbanski
8/27/2020
Report: 25% of U.S. malls will be gone within the next five years
COVID-19 has sounded a death knell for malls in B, C, and D markets that were struggling to survive before the pandemic struck, according to a new report from Coresight Research.

Al Urbanski