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

12/2/2020
What the pandemic hath wrought: five key trends
For years, Phillips Edison’s national accounts and emerging trends team has been doggedly cataloging new trends in its neighborhood retail centers, but not as dogged as during COVID-plagued 2020.

Al Urbanski
12/1/2020
Placer.ai: Black Friday becomes Black Week
Black Friday hasn’t gone away as much as it’s been extended.

Al Urbanski
12/1/2020
How to Be an Omnichannel Landlord
Phillips Edison chief Jeff Edison’s top concern was his tenants when COVID-19 shut down nail salons, fitness centers, and other non-essential businesses in his centers.

Al Urbanski
11/30/2020
PREIT expects to emerge from Chapter 11 this month
Having had the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware confirm its restructuring plan, PREIT issued an announcement that it expected to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection within the next few weeks.

Al Urbanski
11/30/2020
Is America Yearning for American Dream?
The 2020 pandemic wore hard on American retail centers. They are now all trying to re-invent themselves as entertainment and dining centers.

Al Urbanski
11/30/2020
O’Reilly named CEO of Howard Hughes Corp.
The CFO who was made president of Howard Hughes Corporation and continued in both those roles while serving as interim CEO has now been formally invested with the top job.

Al Urbanski
11/24/2020
In Mass., mall to be replaced by distribution center
Greendale Mall in Worcester could serve as the poster child for COVID-19’s acceleration of online shopping and demand for merchandise fulfillment services.

Al Urbanski
11/19/2020
Brick+Click opens DTC showrooms in two major Westfield malls
Unibail Rodamco Westfield has opened another Brik + Clik showroom at Westfield World Trade Center in New York.

Al Urbanski
11/19/2020
20% more people will do holiday shopping online this year
Eighty-six percent of consumers surveyed about their 2021 holiday shopping plans said they would do their shopping online this year.

Al Urbanski
11/17/2020
NYC’s Queens Center Mall returns from special servicing
One of big mall owner Macerich’s chief properties, the million-sq.-ft. Queens Center Mall that serves as that New York City borough’s retail nexus, has emerged from special servicing brought upon by the pandemic downturn.

Al Urbanski