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  • Big mall owner CBL launches a rebranding campaign

    Malls are not going away entirely, but the word “mall” may be an endangered concept.   CBL Properties, one of the nation’s biggest mall operators, with 121 of them in 27 states, has announced a rebranding campaign that that reflects a new strategic direction focused on operating community gathering places, not mere shopping centers.  

  • Popular eatery to open cashless location—with kiosk-only ordering

    Shake Shack, the burger chain founded by famed restaurateur Danny Meyer, is taking a high-tech approach to its newest site.  

  • New lease on life for Las Olas Boulevard

    It was an urban retail real estate broker’s dream: five blocks of Main Street storefront — almost 250,000 sq. ft. of it — sandwiched between beachfront and commercial business district. That’s what the owners of most of five contiguous blocks on Fort Lauderdale’s Las Olas Boulevard plopped on the plate of Michael Comras.  

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  • Project Profiles: Mixed-use retail

    Streets of St. Charles (bottom right)

  • SPECS 2018 Update

    Planning is underway for Chain Store Age’s 54th annual SPECS conference, which will be held March 18-20, 2018, at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine (Dallas), Texas. The event will have attendees that are retail and foodservice executives involved in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of stores and restaurants nationwide.

  • The modern case for mixed-use retail

    We have a tendency to take things that have been with us forever, reinvent them, and give them new names. Mixed-use centers, for instance, are essentially the 21st century version of downtowns. But whereas America’s towns grew up organically alongside harbors, rivers, and transportation crossroads, mixed-use centers aren’t always able to be so logically placed.

  • True Colors: Painting update

    In remodels and new construction, paint is one of a retailer’s most effective design tools, both from a cost and overall appearance standpoint. Chain Store Age spoke with Jim Gorman, senior strategic account manager at Benjamin Moore & Co., who discussed trends and offered some advice on how retailers can get the most for their painting investment. 

    What are some of the trends you are seeing in retail and restaurant spaces in regard to the use of paint?

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