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  • Myrtle Beach Mall to launch $30 million redevelopment

    A well-located, 30-year-old mall is about to undergo a major overhaul and add a much-needed shopping, dining and entertainment alternative in the Myrtle Beach marketplace.

    According to Misuma Holdings and Peak Financial Partners, Myrtle Beach Mall will launch a full redevelopment in 2017.  

  • Leases for 320 Sports Authority stores to go to auction

    Sports Authority’s remaining 320 store leases will be auctioned in June.  

  • TechBytes: Three Retailers Who Threaten Amazon

    Amazon.com is starting to appear like the ‘Teflon e-tailer.”   According to eMarketer data, Amazon captured $79.3 billion in U.S. e-commerce sales between April 2015 and April 2016, growing 13% year-over-year. Its next-closest rival, Walmart, took in just $13.5 billion online in that period. However, Amazon may not be invincible.    Here are three retailers who could pose a real challenge to Amazon’s e-commerce dominance:   

  • Three Retailers Who Threaten Amazon

    Amazon.com is starting to appear like the ‘Teflon e-tailer.”  

  • Gap exec moving over to specialty athletic retailer

    A store development executive from Gap Inc. has been tapped to head up real estate for Foot Locker.   Foot Locker announced the appointment of Scott Martin as senior VP – real estate, effective June 13. Martin succeeds Jeffrey Berk, who retired in April after almost 20 years with the company.    

  • The current state of retail market trends in the Midwest

    For anyone looking at the current state of retail in the Midwest, one of the most fascinating things to track is how some of the macro trends we see in the marketplace today are the end result of years (sometimes decades) of evolutionary change.
     

  • Five redevelopment strategies for an evolving industry

    At a time when the world of commercial real estate continues to evolve in new and different directions, many traditional malls find themselves at crossroads. To survive, mall owners and operators must make significant and sometimes dramatic changes in order to remain commercially relevant and financially viable.
     

  • First Impressions: 365 by Whole Foods Market

    It’s going to take some getting used to. That’s one of retail consultant Neil Stern’s first impressions of the new 365 by Whole Foods Market format, which made its national debut on Wednesday,  in Los Angeles. The store combines elements of a Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and Sports,  Stern said in a report by Forbes.
     

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