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

12/20/2020
Streets of St. Charles continues to expand dining options
Many economists predict the advent of COVID-19 vaccines will have caged-up masses busting out of their houses and packing social centers come spring.

Al Urbanski
12/20/2020
44-year-old Sandusky Mall to add housing in redevelopment
Sandusky Mall hopes to be welcoming residents when its current renovation is completed.

Al Urbanski
12/20/2020
Vaccine releases boost retail REIT stocks
The release of two vaccines against COVID-19 turned out to be the best Christmas present for retail real estate investment trusts.

Al Urbanski
12/16/2020
Community blocks purchase of Baldwin Hills mall in L.A.
A $110 million acquisition of Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in South Los Angeles has been quashed by pressure from community activists uncomfortable with the purchaser’s past dealings with the Trump Organization and Kushner Companies.

Al Urbanski
12/15/2020
Plano approves plan to replace mall with a mixed-use project
The Plano Market Square Mall in the expanding suburb north of Dallas has been closed for a few years, and the Plano City Council this week okayed a plan to remove it and replace it with a mixed-use project.

Al Urbanski
12/15/2020
Metro and Barron Collier begin construction of Founders Square in Naples, Fla.
Back in 2016, Eric Mallory and his colleagues at Metro Commercial were excited to have hooked up with Barron Collier Companies in the development of a 55-acre parcel in Naples, Fla.

Al Urbanski
12/15/2020
Puerto Rican import Burrito Social expands in Florida
What was once Puerto Rico’s most popular food truck that evolved into a restaurant concept in Guaynabo is now expanding in the United States.

Al Urbanski
12/14/2020
Westfield, Simon, and Macerich make climate change ‘A List’
As all owners of shopping centers endeavor to present customers best practices for hygiene and sanitation, three leaders in retail real estate have won top grades for advancing global climate change.

Al Urbanski
12/13/2020
California ‘Ghost Mall’ to be redeveloped by casino next door
A mall in Elk Grove, Calif., whose completion was stalled by the 2008 recession and then left vacant again when new owner Howard Hughes Corp. couldn’t make a go of it is getting a third roll of the dice.

Al Urbanski
12/13/2020
North American Properties sets out to re-make a Charlotte property
North American Properties has set out to create an entirely new experience at Birkdale Village in Charlotte, N.C.

Al Urbanski