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

4/7/2022
Brookfield hands Chicago’s Water Tower Place back to its lender
Unable to fill a 300,000-sq.-ft. space left vacant by Macy’s, Brookfield Properties has given up its attempt to save Water Tower Place, the first indoor mall built in Chicago.

Al Urbanski
4/6/2022
American Dream inks deal with Live Nation; Ludacris to appear on May 7
Don Ghermezian has long held that his American Dream center is not a mall, but an entertainment brand.

Al Urbanski
4/6/2022
First National Realty debuts in Texas
A New Jersey-based real estate investment firm, most of whose 43 outdoor centers are found east of the Mississippi River, has purchased its first property in Texas.

Al Urbanski
4/5/2022
Avalon’s owner adds The Forum on Peachtree Parkway to its portfolio
With its latest acquisition, North American Properties claims to have achieved “critical mass” control over aspirational mixed-use developments in the tony North Atlanta suburbs.

Al Urbanski
4/5/2022
Michigan Mall morphs into a business center with retail
What once was Michigan’s Mall of Monroe, between Detroit and Toledo, was devoid of traffic for years after the departure of anchors like Target and J.C. Penney’s.

Al Urbanski
4/4/2022
First Washington Realty acquires Donahue Schriber
An affiliate of First Washington Realty has acquired Donahue Schriber group to form one of the leading outdoor center operators with 150 properties.

Al Urbanski
4/3/2022
5Qs for Placer’s RJ Hottovy on how data is driving store expansion
How traffic data is leading retailers to the right markets, not just the hot markets.

Al Urbanski
3/29/2022
CBL’s Lebovitz joins 2,000 CEOs dedicated to workplace diversity
CBL Properties continues to make steady strides forward with the environmental, social, and governance initiative it launched last year.

Al Urbanski
3/29/2022
American Dream opens its 300-ft.-high Dream Wheel
The first big sky wheel with views of the nation’s biggest city is soon opening in the New Jersey Meadowlands.

Al Urbanski
3/28/2022
The mall operator that just set a sales per square foot record is…
PREIT, the mall owner which years ago set a minimum average sales-per-sq.-ft. number as a marker for dispossession, now finds itself with record-high receipts.

Al Urbanski