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

12/11/2022
Centennial grew its shopping center portfolio by 53% in 2022
The signing of a third-party management contract with Princeton, N.J.’s Marketfair has taken its national footprint from 15 million to 23 million sq. ft.

Al Urbanski
12/6/2022
JLL: Prime urban retail corridors are booming with luxury, digitally native tenants
Luxury, digitally native and athleisure retailers are driving demand in existing and emerging prime urban corridors.

Al Urbanski
12/5/2022
Chicagoland’s Westfield Old Orchard mall to get $100 million remake
With community input, URW aims to turn the site into the “residential, commercial, and cultural heart” of Skokie on the North Shore.

Al Urbanski
12/5/2022
Q&A: Macerich's Ken Volk on the importance of short-term tenants
Macerich's digital QuikSpace program allows prospective tenants to inspect spaces and rent them online for any term from one day to 12 months.

Al Urbanski
12/4/2022
CBL malls to add 232k sq. ft. of entertainment options
The new motto of one of the nation’s largest mall owners appears to be “Let us entertain you.”

Al Urbanski
12/1/2022
375,000-sq.-ft. of retail planned for $3 billion development north of Dallas
Ground breaks this month for The Mix, a 112-acre ‘mixed-experience community’ in Frisco, Texas.

Al Urbanski
12/1/2022
Lifestyle center pioneer re-brands as Poag Development Group
Poag Shopping Centers’ partnership with JLL results in a new name for the Memphis-based developer.

Al Urbanski
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