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

6/15/2021
5Qs for Heather Crowell on reimagining the mall
Seven years before COVID-19 stalked open society and changed the game for owner-operators of shopping centers, CEO Joe Coradino began disposing of under-performing malls in PREIT’s portfolio and replacing traditional anchors with restaurant plazas and entertainment purveyors.

Al Urbanski
6/15/2021
Dayton’s Project developer fights takeover attempt by lender
An office-and-retail makeover of the historic Dayton Dry Goods building in downtown Minneapolis has turned into a takeover—and the project’s developer intends to fight it.

Al Urbanski
6/14/2021
27% of U.S. shopping centers are found in California, Texas, and Florida
There are 115,049 shopping centers in the United States and 27% of them can be found in its three most populous states: California, Texas, and Florida.

Al Urbanski
6/14/2021
Ex-retailer forms company to expand DC space
Box Equities has acquired two distribution centers in its efforts to help retailers secure hard-to-find industrial real estate.

Al Urbanski
6/13/2021
Washington Prime Group files for Chapter 11 protection
Washington Prime Group and some of its subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 restructuring relief in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Al Urbanski
6/9/2021
Starwood sells Blue Back Square for $40.5 million
Blue Back Square in the center of West Hartford, Conn., has been sold by Starwood Retail Partners.

Al Urbanski
6/9/2021
Brookfield latches on to new gaming concept; planning 1,000 locations in five years
Electric Gamebox, a multi-player video game experience developed in the U.K., will be opening 100 locations in the U.S.

Al Urbanski
6/8/2021
Oshins returns to NRDC as chief investment officer
After leading two successful energy companies, J.J. Oshins has returned to retail real estate and to the company that gave him his first job after graduating from Cornell’s hotel management school in 2005.

Al Urbanski
6/8/2021
X Team adds two new affiliates; brings total to 37
X Team’s nationwide network of boutique brokers and retail advisors has added two new affiliates: ADMI, Inc., and Hoffman Strategy Group.

Al Urbanski
6/1/2021
5Qs for Michael Kalil on repositioning malls
COVID-19 wasn’t the first crisis Michael Kalil confronted that diverted the course of retail.

Al Urbanski