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

3/22/2022
Award goes to Newmark Merrill chief for aiding tenants during the pandemic
Immediate actions taken by Sandy Sigal on behalf of his tenants in March 2020 have resulted in him being honored this week by the California Business Properties Association.

Al Urbanski
3/21/2022
X-Team Retail Advisors adds three new affiliates
One of the nation’s biggest retail real estate brokerages just got bigger.

Al Urbanski
3/20/2022
BLCK Market takes African American brands to the mall in Texas
Black Americans have never had the opportunity to do retail the right way, according to J.O. Malone of Pearland, Texas.

Al Urbanski
3/17/2022
New retail plaza takes shape near Radio City in New York
The 115-ft. long plaza that distances what once was the McGraw-Hill Building from the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan is being converted into a meeting place that will feature 65,000 sq. ft. of retail space.

Al Urbanski
3/16/2022
First Look: Bucherer's 'TimeMachine'
Watch aficionados in New York City who’ve long been without Gotham’s largest timepiece temple can get set to make their returns to what is now the most luxed-out chronometer gallery in town.

Al Urbanski
3/15/2022
Big California lifestyle center owner acquires four grocery-anchored centers
DJM Capital, owner of Ovation Hollywood and Pacific City in Huntington Beach has seen what’s essential and this week closed on four neighborhood centers in California.

Al Urbanski
3/15/2022
P.F. Chang’s COO: ‘We’re taking takeout to the cities and the suburbs’
P.F. Chang's is pursuing a two-tier strategy with its takeout shops.

Al Urbanski
3/14/2022
NYC’s Meatpacking District wins a key tenant
Pandemic deserters are back and rents are up in Manhattan, office lights are flickering, and a corner property across the street from Diane von Furstenburg in the Meatpacking District has captured a major luxury watch Brand.

Al Urbanski
3/9/2022
New owners to turn Cincinnati’s first big mall into 76-acre mixed-use project
When it opened in 1960, Tri-County Shopping Center was the biggest mall built by Baltimore-based developer Joseph Meyerhoff and the Cincinnati metro’s first enclosed shopping space.

Al Urbanski
3/7/2022
Topgolf to open its 75th venue in California’s Inland Empire
Twenty-two years after it debuted in Watford, England, Topgolf will begin construction of its 75th target-golf entertainment center in Ontario, California.

Al Urbanski