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

10/24/2021
New Jersey’s largest mall adds three new names to its restaurant list
Season’s 52, Eddie V’s, and Fogo de Chao will soon become part of Garden State Plaza’s menu of 30-plus restaurants.

Al Urbanski
10/21/2021
Kite and RPAI merge to become a power in open-air centers
Big grocery-anchored center owner Kite Realty Group has closed its $7.5 billion merger with mixed-use project standout Retail Properties of America.

Al Urbanski
10/19/2021
Plans begin for a 37,000-acre master-planned community along I-11 in Phoenix
Howard Hughes Corporation and famed sports industry executive Jerry Colangelo have joined forces to develop Douglas Ranch.

Al Urbanski
10/19/2021
Simon and Macerich vet Mike Nevins joins Spinoso Real Estate Group
Mike Nevins, who served as COO and director of leasing at Simon Property Group in Indianapolis for the past three years, has returned to the upstate New York town where he began his retail real estate career.

Al Urbanski
10/17/2021
Medical co-working office concept looks to expand
Two real estate developers, one a trained physician, have had success with a co-working medical office concept called MedCoShare in Philadelphia and now intend to take the idea to urban streets and retail centers nationwide.

Al Urbanski
10/12/2021
BurgerFi to acquire pizza chain and lead joint expansion
BurgerFi has made an agreement to purchase Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings and direct a joint expansion of the two chains focused on the eastern half of the United States.

Al Urbanski
10/11/2021
Major mall owner introduces a digital short-term leasing program
One of the biggest victims of COVID-19 was the 10-year lease, long a standard at enclosed malls.

Al Urbanski
10/11/2021
Chicago Magnificent Mile development signs Museum of Ice Cream
The Shops at Tribune Tower has snagged a real sweet tenant.

Al Urbanski
10/6/2021
Last-mile Amazon deliveries blocked by New Jersey town
PetSmart, Ulta, and DSW all left Deptford Crossing shopping center in Deptford Township, N.J., leaving the center just two-thirds occupied.

Al Urbanski
10/4/2021
LA Fitness replaces Best Buy at Long Beach center
LA Fitness’s chief of real estate Bill Horner notes that convenient access to large, active populations is the key to the chain’s location strategy, and that’s certainly the case with its newly announced location at Marina Pacifica Shopping center on the Pacific Coast Highway overlooking Alamitos Bay.

Al Urbanski