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

8/21/2022
URW names developer to build luxury apartments at Garden State Plaza
One of the highest-grossing malls in the nation is about to become a neighborhood.

Al Urbanski
8/21/2022
DraftKings goes Live! with its first gaming and dining establishment
Live! Hospitality & Entertainment, the company that’s brought 100,000 sq. ft. casinos to malls, is now bringing an online gaming brand into a mall with a 10,000-sq.-ft. bar and restaurant.

Al Urbanski
8/18/2022
Big Vegas hotel opening in 2023 unveils its retail component’s design
ICSC Las Vegas show attendees will soon have a new luxury hotel to stay in—and it’s promising a revolutionary retail configuration.

Al Urbanski
8/17/2022
Noted retail real estate consultant takes managing director post at JLL
Nicki Hines, whose helped develop real estate strategies for brands such as Nike, Tiffany, and Coach has accepted a top position in JLL’s Chicago office.

Al Urbanski
8/17/2022
JLL partners with Poag to help it develop ‘shopping centers of the future’
Brick-and-mortar retail is all about mixed-use centers these days, and one of the world’s top real estate services companies has forged a partnership with a pioneer in that sector.

Al Urbanski
8/16/2022
2022's Top 10 Retail Center Experiences: Easton Town Center is No. 1
Why did Easton Town Center repeat as the No. 1 Retail Center Experience in 2022? Because it never stopped improving and adding things that make the 1,300-acre property more town than town center.

Al Urbanski
8/16/2022
New leasing chief joins Cullinan Properties
Another highly experienced veteran of Retail Properties of America, Inc. has joined the team at Cullinan Properties.

Al Urbanski
8/16/2022
Home delivery fuels the signing of a record number of million-sq.-ft. warehouse leases
Warehouse vacancies are low and rents are high, so retailers are signing leases for the biggest distribution center spaces they can find.

Al Urbanski
8/15/2022
21 things you likely didn’t know about Las Vegas’s Miracle Mile Shops
Las Vegas’s Miracle Mile Mall opened 22 years ago this week, but not with that name.

Al Urbanski
8/15/2022
2022's Top 10 Retail Center Experiences: Tysons Corner Center is No. 2
CSA picks retail's most engaging centers

Al Urbanski