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Open-Air, Three Ways
Three different centers, three different owner/managers, three different recipes for shaping open-air centers to local tastes
Chris Ressa does not put a lot of stock in the word “experiential.” Though it’s become a companion to the word “retail” in the real estate industry, DLC Management Corp.’s senior VP of leasing finds it not up to the task of describing what’s too often missing at shopping venues.
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eMarketer: Led by mobile, digital sales growth set for another record year
A record 68% of the U.S. population will make at least one purchase via a digital channel in 2017. That’s according to eMarketer’s 2017 Retail Outlook, which projects another strong year for digital growth. The report forecasts that e-commerce sales will increase 16.0% in 2017 to $462.17 billion, while total retail sales will grow 3.5% to $5.01 trillion.
