Jay Barmann/SFist.com – Among the 100 Macy’s stores that are set to close, as the retail giant announced today, will be the hulking, nearly windowless men’s store across the street from their Union Square flagship, at 120 Stockton Street. The SF Business Times picks up this detail, which was also caught by Curbed, reporting that the 263,640-square-foot store […]
Archives for 2016
Fall Of The Mall? How Mergers and Millennials are Changing an American Icon
Bryan Pearson/Forbes – In Dearborn, Michigan, Lord & Taylor has been tailored for Ford. The Fairlane Town Center in suburban Detroit is retrofitting the former department store space and several other vacancies to accommodate offices for Ford Motor Co. The automaker will move 2,100 workers to the mall as it converts 240,000 square feet of former retail space […]
Rodale Institute looks to expand its reach amid exploding demand for organics
Jennifer Sheehan/The Morning Call – Rodale Institute, the Maxatawny Township nonprofit dedicated to organic farming, plans to set up satellite centers across the country, designed to help more farmers transition to organic operations, the institute’s executive director said Wednesday. Boulder, Colo., Memphis, Tenn., Michigan and Montana all would have resource centers under a plan in the […]
The next big thing coming to your supermarket is grocery delivery
Justine Griffin/Tampa Bay Times – It has been nearly a year since Shipt began delivering groceries from Publix Super Markets to customers’ homes in the Tampa Bay area. Since then, competition for grocery delivery has really started to heat up. Safeway opened three stores in Florida last month, including one in Largo, with fleets of […]
Now Trending: Macy’s May See Changes
Macy’s may be flailing, but the department store icon can’t be accused of taking its struggles lying down. As sales were falling 7.4% in the first quarter of 2016 (numbers that represented the fifth straight quarter of declining sales, and capped off a year in which Macy’s stock prices were nearly halved at 47%), Macy’s […]
The District Detroit aims to be a game changer for city
Christina Cannon/Heartland Real Estate Business – Summer may be approaching, but workers on the Detroit Events Center are cooling off as the practice ice begins to take shape. With work on the roof and training facility underway, the new home of the NHL’s Red Wings is right on schedule to open for the 2017-2018 season. With so much excitement surrounding the construction of the arena, it’s easy […]
