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

11/29/2022
Katz picked to serve as Starbuck’s real estate broker in Brooklyn and Staten Island
Longtime Starbuck's broker Russel Helbling will lead the search for new spots in the New York metro.

Al Urbanski
11/28/2022
Dulles Town Center adds eight tenants for the holidays
They will join with more than 130 others at one of the DC metro’s most popular super-regional malls.

Al Urbanski
11/28/2022
Q&A: American Dream's Don Ghermezian on the mall as a medium
American Dream has activations that few centers could host.

Al Urbanski
11/27/2022
CBRE: Black Friday sales exceed 2021 results
Electronics, home décor, jewelry, beauty, and apparel sales lifted the retail tide last weekend.

Al Urbanski
11/22/2022
Retail Christmas is not made at the North Pole, but in Mount Vernon, N.Y.
American Christmas dresses Macy’s, Cartier, Rockefeller Center and many more for the holidays.

Al Urbanski
11/21/2022
Allbirds is one of some 30 new tenants signed by Tanger since September
Tanger Outlets is close to matching its 2019 occupancy rate after seeing it drop five points in 2020.

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11/20/2022
Mixed-use center planned for Mars Petcare’s HQ site in Tennessee
Forty percent of the 145-acre site will be outfitted with retail, residential, and hospitality.

Al Urbanski
11/13/2022
Miami’s Brickell City Centre reports 32% sales increase over 2021
Swire’s massive development in the city’s financial district added 15 new tenants this year.

Al Urbanski
11/8/2022
PREIT reports 10% rise in sales per sq. ft. versus 2019
PREIT says it is not only catching up to its 2019 sales numbers, but exceeding them.

Al Urbanski
11/8/2022
Cullinan Properties takes on new director of real estate
Mike Tchang joins the Peoria-based developer as a senior VP.

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