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

5/10/2021
April traffic report is optimistic about top-tier malls regaining their stature
PREIT CEO Joe Coradino has a “winner-take-all” theory that lesser malls will close in most markets and better malls will capture their customers and flourish.

Al Urbanski
5/4/2021
Maui’s largest mall struggles to survive
Queen Ka’ahumanu Center, the largest mall on the Hawaiian island of Maui for 50 years, may be facing its demise.

Al Urbanski
5/3/2021
Brookfield gives three malls back to banks
As part of a $6.5 billion deal that will make it a private company, Brookfield Property Partners returned three malls to their creditors, according to a report from KCP Research.

Al Urbanski
5/2/2021
Tanger chooses Fillogic to handle online fulfillment for its outlets
Tanger Factory Outlets is testing a Fillogic micro-distribution hub at its Deer Park Center in Long Island and will be monitoring its effectiveness before launching it portfolio-wide.

Al Urbanski
4/29/2021
Luxury retailers flock to Legacy West
The suburbs north of Dallas have long been a target for expanding retailers, and the Legacy West development in Plano has been snaring some of the most coveted brands.

Al Urbanski
4/28/2021
PREIT reports leasing 600K sq. ft. of mall space in Q1
Leasing activity at PREIT properties during the first quarter of 2021 strongly contradicts a popular notion that malls will all perish post-pandemic.

Al Urbanski
4/28/2021
Westwood taps new head of leasing
Westwood Financial has hired a new director of leasing.

Al Urbanski
4/27/2021
Retail is rekindled on a former brownfield site in Baltimore
Two Baltimore guys named David Bramble and Peter Pinkard recently accomplished something few in town thought could be done.

Al Urbanski
4/27/2021
Two-thirds of Americans think smaller cities and suburbs are cooler than major metros
Remote working has led millions of people to abandon apartments in major metros and move to smaller cities and suburbs.

Al Urbanski
4/27/2021
Leasing activity’s on the rise in New Jersey, top broker says
Following a year when leasing activity declined by almost 30% in her state, a top broker in New Jersey sees a significant uptick in retail expansion with strong brands like Planet Fitness, Dollar Tree, and Five Below eagerly snapping up empty spaces.

Al Urbanski