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

10/21/2019
Trend-setting Georgia center continues to up its game
Adam Baldwin’s famous “ABC” imperative to the real estate salesmen in Glengarry Glen Ross to “always be closing” is re-interpreted as “always be curating” by forward-thinking retail real estate developers like North American Properties.

Al Urbanski
10/16/2019
Crossman names 2019 winner of its real estate scholarship
Jamerika Ramsay has been named the winner of Crossman & Company’s Endowed Real Estate Scholarship for 2019.

Al Urbanski
10/15/2019
Brixmor sells center for $23 million in ‘hot’ Jacksonville market
The Jacksonville market is “on fire” according to JLL senior managing director Brad Peterson.

Al Urbanski
10/15/2019
Simon invests in high-end bowling and dining concept
Pinstripes, a 30,000-sq.-ft. entertainment concept that offers bowling, bocce, and fine Italian dining in a spacious two-level environment has an important new investor.

Al Urbanski
10/14/2019
5Qs for Kate Iverson on art’s place in malls
We asked one of the firm’s partners, Kate Iverson, why malls and art go so well together.

Al Urbanski
10/13/2019
There are 23% more gyms in retail centers than there were in 2010
Traditional tenants in retail centers once scoffed at having gyms in their midst for all the parking spaces they took up. No more.

Al Urbanski
10/13/2019
Kanye West holds Sunday Service at Vestar’s Gateway Center
Sometimes the best traffic-building event is one you can’t plan for.

Al Urbanski
10/10/2019
The Experience-to-Stuff Ratio
It’s no secret that a successful retail center of any kind in 2019 — be it an outdoor center or an enclosed mall — must re-jigger its mix to include a wide variety of food, beverage, and entertainment-based tenants.

Al Urbanski
10/8/2019
Watch for more watch stores in malls
More watchmakers are bypassing third-party retail shops that sell multiple brands and setting up their own stores.

Al Urbanski
10/7/2019
5Qs for Jason Baker about Houston
Born and raised in Texas, a graduate of Texas A&M, and having spent 15 years serving retailers in the Houston market as a principal of the Baker Katz real estate brokerage, Jason Baker knows the Lone Star State.

Al Urbanski