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

8/4/2021
2021's Top 10 Retail Experiences: No. 5 National Harbor
Chain Store Age picks physical retail's most engaging centers

Al Urbanski
8/3/2021
2021's Top 10 Retail Experiences: No. 4 Tuscan Village
Chain Store Age picks physical retail's most engaging centers

Al Urbanski
8/2/2021
2021's Top 10 Retail Experiences: No. 3 Galleria Dallas
Chain Store Age picks physical retail's most engaging centers

Al Urbanski
8/1/2021
2021's Top 10 Retail Experiences: No. 2 American Dream
Chain Store Age picks physical retail's most engaging centers

Al Urbanski
7/29/2021
2021's Top 10 Retail Experiences: No. 1 Easton Town Center
Chain Store Age picks physical retail's most engaging centers

Al Urbanski
7/29/2021
Health care provider buys old Sears store at Moorestown Mall
PREIT has sold the former Sears store at Moorestown Mall in New Jersey to Cooper University Health Care for $10.1 million, a deal that the mall owner has been promising for some months.

Al Urbanski
7/27/2021
Illinois mall bids farewell to COVID-19 by hosting a wedding
Every time Rachel Young and Aaron Stone visit the Northwoods Mall in Peoria, Ill. on July 11, they’ll be reminded of the summer of 2021.

Al Urbanski
7/27/2021
Avalon chief developer launches new retail real estate company
The man who was the driving development force behind Avalon, Atlantic Station, and other high-service, customer-focused retail centers for North American Properties has left.

Al Urbanski
7/26/2021
North Dakota town offers $1M to company that will put an aquarium in its mall
A town in North Dakota lost its 100,000-sq.-ft. Kmart, but it aims to hold on to the Grand Cities Mall where the store closed.

Al Urbanski
7/26/2021
Developer makes deal to go ahead with 69-acre Belle Oaks Marketplace near Cleveland
With all its real estate now in place, DealPoint Merrill is ready to proceed with the construction of the Belle Oaks Marketplace mixed-use center on the site of what was once one of Ohio’s largest malls.

Al Urbanski