The Giant Company has gone big in Philadelphia, opening a store with a dazzling array of services and amenities that are designed to meet the needs and tastes of urban dwellers.
City Place, a 14-acre, big-box center in downtown Long Beach, Calif., that was the site of the Long Beach Plaza Mall appears headed for redevelopment as a mixed-use center.
Easton’s 16-acre, $500 million New District is now opening up and offering another inspired example of what gathering-dining-shopping-playing spaces can be in post-pandemic America.
Plentiful financing offered to retail chains stymied by the COVID-19 pandemic allowed many whose businesses had already been declining to hang on to life in 2020. But 2021 could be their downfall.
