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  • President-elect impacting Tiffany flagship

    Tiffany & Co.’s sterling jewel — its flagship on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue — is feeling the impact of beefed up security and protests at Trump Tower, which is located next door to the store.     Since the election, Tiffany said its flagship, the retailer’s largest location and a tourist magnet, has seen an “adverse effect” and sales softness” compared with the year before and relative to the company’s other U.S. stores. And it sees no quick fix of the problem. 

  • Natural pet food retailer on expansion track

    Bentley’s Pet Stuff is on the move.   The family-owned retailer, which specializes in the fast-growing segment of natural pet food, will open nine stores in December, with locations in Milwaukee, Colorado, Minneapolis and Chicago.    The new locations include Bayview, Racine, Menomonee Falls, New Berlin, Delafield and Fox Point (all in the Milwaukee area); Stillwater in the Minneapolis area; Greenwood, Colorado; and one in Chicago.  

  • District at Green Valley Ranch signs three lifestyle tenants

    The District at Green Valley Ranch outside of Las Vegas gave a shot in the arm to its healthy lifestyle credentials with the signing of three new tenants — CycleBar, Drip Doctors, and Pressed for Juice.   Owned by Vestar, the 385,000-sq.-ft. open-air center is the largest retail component of Green Valley Ranch, a master-planned community in Henderson whose centerpiece is a hotel-casino resort of the same name run by Station Casinos.  

  • GameTime signs at One Daytona

    International Speedway Corporation has announced the signing of GameTime to a lease for a 35,000-sq.-ft. at One Daytona, a mixed-use project rising up across from its historic Daytona International Speedway.   Aside from bowling alleys and arcade games, GameTime locations feature full-service bars and a menu of standard bar fare like pizza, burgers, and sandwiches. This will be the Florida-based chain’s fifth location in its home state.  

  • Home furnishings giant continues U.S. expansion

    Ikea is hoping to build its fifth store in the state of Texas.   The retailer is submitting plans to the City of Live Oak, Texas, for a San Antonio-area store. Pending approvals, construction could begin in spring 2018, with an opening in summer 2019.     Located approximately 15 miles northeast of downtown San Antonio, the 289,000-sq.-ft. proposed Ikea would be built on 31 acres.  

  • CSA Exclusive: America’s Top 10 Redevelopers

    Kimco Realty Corp. takes the top spot in Chain Store Age’s 12th annual Top Redevelopers survey, with 2,669,999 sq. ft. redeveloped. Kimco’s redevelopment reach in 2015-2016 spanned 19 states and Canada, as the company touched 39 projects in all.   (The survey analyzed redevelopment work from mid-year to mid-year in the 12-month period from June 2015 to June 2016.)       Vestar claimed the #2 spot, with 1,930,000 sq. ft. developed, followed by Westfield, with 1, 743 sq. ft. 

  • Iowa center sells for $5.5 million

    Quincy Plaza in Ottumwa, Iowa, was purchased by Beaumont, Texas-based Albanese Cormier Holdings for $5.5 million. Mid-America Real Estate brokered the deal on behalf of a fund managed by Cincinnati-based Phillips Edison.   The 137,389-sq.-ft center is anchored by Kmart, Hobby Lobby, and Rent-A-Center in the southern Iowa retail hub on the Des Moines River. Quincy Plaza is located across the roadway from Target and the Quincy Place Mall.

  • The rise of fresh-casual

    Restaurant retail is in the midst of a revolution.    According to the Urban Land Institute, one of the key factors driving traffic at retail is the rise of new food concepts, which account for nearly 50% of shopping center growth nationally. The first volleys of this revolution were fired by a spate of new fast-casual concepts, but as the movement gains momentum, it is evolving from fast-casual to fresh-casual.   
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