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

11/16/2021
Amazon 4-Star and Warby Parker to open at Cherry Hill Mall
Prominent online brands continue to expand to high-profile physical retail locations, the latest being Amazon 4-Star and Warby Parker signing leases at the super-regional Cherry Hill Mall in New Jersey.

Al Urbanski
11/16/2021
Retail winners of past year: Target, Best Buy, and dollar stores
During a three-hour webinar yesterday, foot traffic analyst Placer.ai, itself a big winner over the past year, asked panelists to name the retail brands they thought conquered the pandemic.

Al Urbanski
11/16/2021
Tenants: How you can tour 10 centers (or more) in one day
Well-capitalized brands are expanding as the pandemic winds down, among them DTC retailers and restaurant chains seeking specially located and designed spaces.

Al Urbanski
11/14/2021
Solstice Sunglasses reduced rents significantly to exit Chapter 11
With its revenues slashed in half by mandatory store closings in 2020, Solstice Sunglasses sought bankruptcy protection and emerged from Chapter 11 with fewer shops and smaller rents.

Al Urbanski
11/14/2021
Placer.ai: The holiday shopping season may have begun in October
There isn’t a retail research firm or an investment house that hasn’t predicted an early start to a holiday season in which product availability is being curtailed by supply chain problems, and Placer.ai’s October Mall Index indicates Christmas shopping is underway.

Al Urbanski
11/10/2021
Survey: Six out of 10 Americans say they’d buy all a mall’s merchandise online
A company that creates digital marketing and e-commerce programs for malls did a survey of 569 American consumers and found that they’re hankering for digital connections to their favorite shopping centers.

Al Urbanski
11/9/2021
CBRE: Holiday sales could soar as much as 10.5% over 2020
Global real estate services company CBRE expects a 10-year-high 8% rise in brick-and-mortar sales this holiday season, a boost that could result in a rise of between 7% and 10.5% in total retail sales.

Al Urbanski
11/9/2021
New Staten Island center will open 14 tenants this fall
Kimco Realty's major addition to retail real estate in the New York City borough of Staten Island will get big attention from now through December when 14 tenants plan to open.

Al Urbanski
11/8/2021
Better burger chain Ford’s Garage continues expansion
The chain calls itself “your neighborhood burger and beer joint” and claims its interiors have the vibe of a 1920s service station--though the old Esso station didn’t have “Green and Clean” veggie burgers.

Al Urbanski
11/4/2021
Block of Oak Street snags top price paid for a Chicago retail asset in five years
A block that lists Chanel, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Moncler on its retail roster has been purchased by Union Investment Real Estate for an undisclosed price.

Al Urbanski