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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.

Fabletics is ramping up its store growth in 2021.

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. 

Scotch & Soda is growing its portfolio around the globe.

A leading buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform is including brick-and-mortar shopping for the first time in its bi-annual savings event.

Walmart has brought on a well-known designer to help pump up its fashion credentials.

Primark has opened its first store in the Midwest, on N. State Street in Chicago.

With wide-spread vaccination on the horizon, relative relief from the global pandemic is close at hand. But even with a new layer of safety added to the retail shopping experience, one factor remains irrevocably changed — the consumer.