Al Urbanski
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- 3/23/2021
CBRE: Warehouse space is limited, expensive, and likely to stay that way for some time
It’s a tough year for retailers to be in need of industrial warehouse and fulfillment space, according to CBRE’s retail leader and managing director of industrial and logistics. - 3/17/2021
Long Beach retail site prepares for its third iteration
City Place, a 14-acre, big-box center in downtown Long Beach, Calif., that was the site of the Long Beach Plaza Mall appears headed for redevelopment as a mixed-use center. - 3/16/2021
Take a tour of Easton’s New District
Easton’s 16-acre, $500 million New District is now opening up and offering another inspired example of what gathering-dining-shopping-playing spaces can be in post-pandemic America. - 3/15/2021
Gainesville’s growing live-work-play project opens retail leasing for Phase 2
Celebration Pointe, the 1.5-million-sq.-ft. food-and-entertainment-driven center that opened in Gainesville in 2016, is emerging healthy from the COVID-19 crisis and recruiting new tenants to inhabit its Phase 2. - 3/15/2021
Easy 2020 money stalled retail bankruptcies that will take place in 2021
Plentiful financing offered to retail chains stymied by the COVID-19 pandemic allowed many whose businesses had already been declining to hang on to life in 2020. But 2021 could be their downfall. - 3/9/2021
Retail REITs’ losses declined by half in Q4 2020
Though retail real estate investment trusts continue to tread a rough road back to normalcy, strong advancement was made by them during the holiday season. - 3/8/2021
Washington Prime Group skips interest payment, may be filing bankruptcy
Washington Prime Group, owner-operator of nearly 100 malls and shopping centers across the United States, could be preparing a Chapter 11 filing. - 3/7/2021
RCS deal will keep all Ann Taylor, Loft, and Lane Bryant stores open in Simon malls
After Sycamore Partners’ Premium Apparel unit bought Ascena Retail Group for $540 million in a Chapter 11 auction last December, it approached Simon Properties and requested rent relief for some 235 Ann Taylor, Loft, and Lane Bryant stores in the company’s malls. - 3/2/2021
Seattle and Salt Lake City thrived in 2020; Las Vegas and New Haven dived
Only 11 metros in the United States equaled or surpassed their average retail sales growth rates from the previous five-year period.
