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

2/21/2022
Bull riding, beer-drinking, and barbecue comes under one roof in Huntsville
Professional bull riders round ‘em up, Lockhart Smokehouse cooks ‘em up, and now the two have formed a professional partnership in Alabama.

Al Urbanski
2/21/2022
Prime seafood restaurant is set to open a second New Jersey location at…
Eddie V’s, a top-quality seafood restaurant with locations in Austin, Palm Desert, and Fort Lauderdale, will soon be serving southern New Jersey.

Al Urbanski
2/17/2022
Coke Starlight is now available in limited quantities at…
It’s redder than the Coke you know, it contains a “dash of the unexpected,” and you have to go to that big mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands to get it.

Al Urbanski
2/15/2022
PREIT to add ‘new generation’ Legoland at center in the DC metro
Springfield Town Center in suburban Washington, D.C., will be introducing a 32,000-sq.-ft. Legoland Discovery Center co-created by Lego and Merlin Entertainments.

Al Urbanski
2/15/2022
5Qs for NAP’s Tim Perry on community centers (and parking lots)
Retail real estate and community building are the same thing, says Tim Perry.

Al Urbanski
2/13/2022
Rick Caruso enters Los Angeles mayoral race
The major player in elegant shopping centers in Southern California now wants to be the mayor of Los Angeles.

Al Urbanski
2/13/2022
Assembly Row adds five tenants to its F&B menu
Assembly Row, the first-class downtown that Federal retail built en masse in the Boston suburb of Somerville, is making big additions to its restaurant contingent.

Al Urbanski
2/9/2022
AMC Theatres makes hire to take its Perfectly Popcorn to retail
Cinema chains continue to be the retail center tenants hardest hit by the pandemic, and that’s led one to get into the retail business.

Al Urbanski
2/8/2022
Hobby Lobby to open its first store in NYC
The largest arts-and-crafts retailer had drawn a circle around the United States’ largest market but never entered it. Now it will.

Al Urbanski
2/8/2022
Work begins on Ikea-anchored ‘meeting place’ in downtown San Francisco
Ingka Centres’ long-brewing plan to plant smaller Ikea stores in downtowns across the globe has gotten underway in San Francisco.

Al Urbanski