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

10/27/2021
Placer.ai: Holiday cheer may be for real this year
Americans who are eager to be celebrating the holidays with their families in person instead of on laptop screens are likely to be shopping early and often this year, according to reports from Placer.ai.

Al Urbanski
10/26/2021
$21.31: The average retail asking rent rose for the 3rd quarter in a row
On the retail scene, it’s not the increasing vaccination rate that tells you we’re phasing out of pandemic life, it’s the increase in rent.

Al Urbanski
10/26/2021
Nashville Yards adds five new names to its retail tenant list
Orangetheory and fast-casual dining concept Crisp & Green are among the new retail tenants to sign leases at Nashville Yards.

Al Urbanski
10/25/2021
Easton Town Center opens nine new tenants
Cut to the lowest occupancy rate in its 20-year history by the pandemic, Columbus's 90-acre super-center roars back with nine new tenants.

Al Urbanski
10/24/2021
New Jersey’s largest mall adds three new names to its restaurant list
Season’s 52, Eddie V’s, and Fogo de Chao will soon become part of Garden State Plaza’s menu of 30-plus restaurants.

Al Urbanski
10/21/2021
Kite and RPAI merge to become a power in open-air centers
Big grocery-anchored center owner Kite Realty Group has closed its $7.5 billion merger with mixed-use project standout Retail Properties of America.

Al Urbanski
10/19/2021
Simon and Macerich vet Mike Nevins joins Spinoso Real Estate Group
Mike Nevins, who served as COO and director of leasing at Simon Property Group in Indianapolis for the past three years, has returned to the upstate New York town where he began his retail real estate career.

Al Urbanski
10/19/2021
Plans begin for a 37,000-acre master-planned community along I-11 in Phoenix
Howard Hughes Corporation and famed sports industry executive Jerry Colangelo have joined forces to develop Douglas Ranch.

Al Urbanski
10/17/2021
Medical co-working office concept looks to expand
Two real estate developers, one a trained physician, have had success with a co-working medical office concept called MedCoShare in Philadelphia and now intend to take the idea to urban streets and retail centers nationwide.

Al Urbanski
10/12/2021
BurgerFi to acquire pizza chain and lead joint expansion
BurgerFi has made an agreement to purchase Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings and direct a joint expansion of the two chains focused on the eastern half of the United States.

Al Urbanski