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

6/7/2022
Rick Caruso will run against U.S. Rep. Karen Bass to be mayor of L.A.
Famed Grove developer Rick Caruso says he'll fix L.A.'s homeless problem and shore up its police department if he's elected in November.

Al Urbanski
6/6/2022
Vestar plans a modern makeover for Tivoli Village in Vegas
A mixed-use development in the Summerlin neighborhood of Las Vegas has a new operator that plans to make it a “city within a city.”

Al Urbanski
6/6/2022
Placer.ai: Don’t read too much into spring visit traffic declines
A new report from a leading source of traffic data at retail centers found a distinct lag in store visits during April, but blamed peaking gas prices, not waning shopper interest.

Al Urbanski
6/5/2022
Remaking a mall: The new life planned for Georgia’s North Point
Can a dying mall rise again? Trademark's Terry Montesi says yes.

Al Urbanski
6/2/2022
ICSC: Physical retail’s transition to omnichannel sped up at the Las Vegas show
Of the five “marketplace moves to watch,” two of them had to do with brick-and-mortar’s increasingly growing role in fulfillment of online orders.

Al Urbanski
6/1/2022
CBRE hires new leasing VP for the Kansas City metro
Jody House has joined CBRE to focus on landlord representation and leasing for shopping centers and mixed-use developments in the Kansas City metro.

Al Urbanski
6/1/2022
New mall tenant watch: Actors studios
Ohio’s Northern Mall has stepped up its act.

Al Urbanski
5/31/2022
Atlanta metro Chick-fil-A can’t drive-thru to its desired new location
Municipalities nationwide have lightened up on their strict assessments of drive-thru lanes. But not in DeKalb, Ga., apparently.

Al Urbanski
5/30/2022
Fenton project in North Carolina’s Research Triangle opens this week
Two years ago, ground was broken on the first phase of Fenton in Cary, N.C.

Al Urbanski
5/30/2022
PREIT sells 11 outparcels and raises $32 million
Located at Main and Main in top markets, Class A regional malls sit on valuable real estate -- and mall REITs are taking advantage of that to raise capital.

Al Urbanski