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PREIT is aggressively defending Capital City Mall’s position as the top shopping center in Harrisburg, Pa., with a bevy of new tenants.

JLL will be taking over management and leasing of River Ridge Mall in Lynchburg, Va., the company announced this week.

For some time now, the global real estate services company JLL has been tracking online retailers cautiously tiptoeing into physical retail, but the pussyfootin’ days appear over for growth-hungry e-coms.

Because they once drew scads of traffic to shopping centers, big department stores have historically paid minuscule rents. As a result, not all center-owners are mourning Sears’s Chapter 11 filing.

Reports are circulating in the business press this week about an impending bankruptcy filing from Sears, but one Northeastern mall owner began preparing for this day years ago.

Thousands of women got together in malls this weekend — but to spread breast cancer awareness, not shop.

Five U.S. companies took the top spots in a ranking of the world’s top 100 brands based on their value.

Chris Bosworth and Will Pike, who together lead the Net Lease Properties business at CBRE, have both been named vice chairmen.