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

10/13/2020
Real Estate Investor Survey: Retail sector will be hurt most by COVID-19
Nine out of 10 investors and senior property company directors think real estate transaction levels will return to pre-pandemic levels in 2021.

Al Urbanski
10/12/2020
Ingka Centres’ $8.6 billion expansion initiative gains momentum in the U.S.
In a time when news about retail stores mostly concerns their closings, the opening of one particular store brand remains a jubilant event in nearly every region of the country.

Al Urbanski
10/12/2020
URW gets EPA award for use of green power
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has received the Excellence in Green Power Use award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for its aggressive use of alternative power sources in its malls.

Al Urbanski
10/12/2020
5Qs for John Morris on the merging of retail and industrial real estate
Four segments of real estate have long been distinct: office, residential, retail, and industrial.

Al Urbanski
10/11/2020
City votes down plan; Connecticut’s biggest mall may close
The fate of Connecticut Post Mall, the state’s largest with 1.3 million sq. ft. of GLA, is now dim.

Al Urbanski
10/8/2020
ICSC moves RECon to December in 2021, cancels all live events in Q1
Confident that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to dog the retail industry well into next year, the International Council of Shopping Centers has cancelled all live events in the first quarter of 2021

Al Urbanski
10/8/2020
ICSC Survey: Holiday shoppers will start earlier and spend slightly more than last year
Two-thirds of Americans surveyed by the International Council of Shopping Centers said they would begin making holiday purchases before Thanksgiving Day and nearly three-quarters plan to spend the same amount of money or more than they did in 2019.

Al Urbanski
10/7/2020
Malls are outperforming outdoor centers in shopper dwell time
During the first week of September, traffic at outdoor shopping centers was 24.6% lower than a year ago.

Al Urbanski
10/7/2020
True Food debuts in Ohio at Easton Town Center
True Food Kitchen, the healthy dining chain co-founded by Dr. Andrew Weil and co-funded by Oprah Winfrey, opened at Easton Town Center in Columbus this week, its first location in Ohio.

Al Urbanski
10/7/2020
With 30 store openings this year, Florida has become Five Below’s No. 2 market
The pandemic has not interfered with Five Below’s aggressive expansion plans in the Sunshine State.

Al Urbanski