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

1/26/2020
Connecticut center to get a boost from new health care facility
One of Connecticut’s most comprehensive health care networks, Hartford Health Care, has announced it would be leasing 40,700 sq. ft. of the former Sports Authority at North Haven Pavilion in North Haven.

Al Urbanski
1/16/2020
Big changes due at Westfield Annapolis

Al Urbanski
1/14/2020
Area15 partners with Intel on retail experience testing
Area15, set to open in Las Vegas in April, describes itself as an “edgy, interactive, trend-ahead mall and performance complex that blurs the line between fantasy and reality.”

Al Urbanski
1/13/2020
New net lease brokerage opens in Chicago
Michigan-based Farbman Group has launched FarbNet, a new Chicago brokerage focused on selling net lease assets.

Al Urbanski
1/13/2020
CENTER STOP: Promenade Shops at Evergreen Walk, South Windsor, Conn.
Getting off the South Windsor exit of I-84, it’s clear you have landed in Retail Central in the eastern suburbs of Hartford.

Al Urbanski
1/12/2020
Ikea to open ‘city centre’ concept in London
Ikea’s $5.8 billion initiative to open smaller format “city centre” stores to get closer to shoppers in dense urban areas is landing in London.

Al Urbanski
1/7/2020
Westfield Topanga to turn old Sears into an entertainment district
One of Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s signature California properties will be getting a new grand entrance and a chef-driven food hall where its Sears store once stood.

Al Urbanski
1/7/2020
Daylight Golf debuts at Grapevine Mills
Golfers who’ve long desired to play at St. Andrews but never got around to visiting Scotland will soon be able to shoot 18 on The Old Course and sip a single malt at the bar at the same time in Grapevine, Texas.

Al Urbanski
1/6/2020
Tuscan Village looks to lure Bostonians to tax-free New Hampshire
For more than 100 years, Rockingham Park in this New Hampshire town just 30 miles from Boston, served as the metropolitan area’s premier racetrack.

Al Urbanski
12/19/2019
Poag takes over management of Highland Village in Texas
Poag Shopping Centers will take over leasing and management of The Shops at Highland Village, an affluent community north of Dallas.

Al Urbanski