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

2/6/2022
InvenTrust acquires two grocery-anchored centers in Austin
A Sunbelt-focused operator of grocery-anchored centers has snapped up two premier properties in the hottest town in Texas for $189 million.

Al Urbanski
2/6/2022
Mall of America adds its 17th new tenant since the beginning of the year
Common wisdom from real estate analysts as we emerge from the pandemic is that the best malls will survive, and Mall of America appears to be proof of that.

Al Urbanski
2/3/2022
American Dream in cash crunch after $9.3 million debt payment
Triple Five’s mega-mall in the Meadowlands may be finding itself in the swamps financially after making a bond payment.

Al Urbanski
2/3/2022
What Placer.ai intends to do with its $100 million cash infusion
At ICSC’s biggest show of 2021 in Las Vegas last December, one booth, crammed to its borders with visitors, shone out as the rock star of the event. That was the booth of Placer.ai.

Al Urbanski
2/1/2022
Federal upgrades Massachusetts center with new tenants and renovations
Federal Realty’s VP of asset management Chris Fleming thinks the pandemic has given the owner-operator of more than 100 properties an opportunity to upgrade many of them.

Al Urbanski
1/31/2022
Entertainment center or intellectual incubator? Arena STEM attempts both at Garden State Plaza
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics? In a mega-mall entertainment center?

Al Urbanski
1/31/2022
RECon will re-emerge as ICSC 2022 Las Vegas
RECon’s back in Vegas this May…well, sort of.

Al Urbanski
1/31/2022
CBL makes diversity commitment in new partnership
A major mall owner has taken a bold step toward diversity by hiring a former mayoral candidate from its hometown of Chattanooga, Tenn.

Al Urbanski
1/30/2022
Sales per square foot at PREIT malls tops $600
PREIT CEO Joe Coradino has hit a checkpoint on his mission to establish his properties as the last malls standing in their markets.

Al Urbanski
1/26/2022
5Qs for Aaron Wu on retail real estate’s recovery
Retail real estate is hot, and we found one of the people warming up the market.

Al Urbanski