TENANT UPDATE

Chicago Magnificent Mile development signs Museum of Ice Cream

The Shops at Tribune Tower has snagged a real sweet tenant.
LA Fitness replaces Best Buy at Long Beach center

LA Fitness’s chief of real estate Bill Horner notes that convenient access to large, active populations is the key to the chain’s location strategy, and that’s certainly the case with its newly announced location at Marina Pacifica Shopping center on the Pacific Coast Highway overlooking Alamitos Ba

104,000-sq.-ft. entertainment center to fill J.C. Penney space at Willow Grove

PREIT’s cross-portfolio plan to fill departed anchor space with modern uses like medical centers and restaurant rows takes a different direction at its Willow Grove Park mall north of Philadelphia, which for 80 years was the site of an amusement park.
Shopify opens ‘entrepreneurial’ hub in New York City, complete with retail pop-up

Shopify has dropped anchor in Manhattan.
Walmart to require masks for store employees in high-risk areas

Walmart Inc. is reinstating its employee mask mandate but, at least for the time being, it does not apply across all its locations.
Maine’s new Rock Row center signs top chef to run its food hall

Rock Row, Waterstone Properties’ $600 million development in Portland, Maine, has hired chef Akhtar Nawab and his Hospitality HQ to operate the 26,000-sq.-ft. food hall it is planning to open.
Three dozen new tenants replaced 19 anchors at PREIT malls in past five years

The new mall formula now calls for fewer department stores and more tenants like gyms, restaurants, medical offices, and arcades that bring round-the-clock traffic.
Easton Town Center welcomes six new tenants

Ohio’s premier, 200-plus-store retail Mecca opened a brand new district during the pandemic and this month ushers in six new tenants—three of which are first-to-market or first in the state.
Hobby Lobby adds to Ohio presence with new store in the Columbus Metro

Hobby Lobby has some 900 stores spread across the United States, but its presence has been sparse in the state of Ohio.
At Home takes over former J.C. Penney site at Maryland mall

Heritage Partners has announced the lease of the entire 96,000-sq.-ft. former J.C. Penney site at its Woodmore Towne Centre in Glenarden, Maryland.
Sam’s Club bringing back free samples

Sam’s Club is resuming its sampling program and adding events that take samples out of the club and into the parking lot.
Vacated Sears space to become restaurant gallery in Massachusetts mall

Craftsman tools and Kenmore refrigerators will be replaced by veal parmigiana and Picanha sirloin at Simon’s Burlington Mall in Massachusetts.
The Comedy Shrine re-opens in a Chicagoland mall

The Comedy Shrine, a comedy club run by a former trouper at Chicago’s Second City improv theater, has moved into Fox Valley Center in Aurora, Ill.
Luxury retailers flock to Legacy West

The suburbs north of Dallas have long been a target for expanding retailers, and the Legacy West development in Plano has been snaring some of the most coveted brands.

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