The Tampa Bay Times/Justine Griffin – It looks like Publix has some new competition in Pinellas County. A new Safeway grocery store is open this week after a $10 million renovation of the former Albertsons store in the Largo Mall. As a born and raised Floridian, I’ve grown up shopping at Publix and occasionally Winn-Dixie. I’ve […]
Archives for 2016
Providence Place mall in line for first major overhaul
Kate Bramson/Providence Journal – Providence Place has embarked on the largest renovation project in its history to keep the mall competitive as an urban retailer and fix traffic and parking problems that have existed since it opened in 1999. More than $20 million in upgrades will include converting most of the former JCPenney department store into more […]
Five Takeaways from RECon 2016
Katherine Boccaccio/Chain Store Age – Over the last 12 annual trips I’ve made to Las Vegas for ICSC’s RECon real estate convention (which officially makes me a rookie in this industry of 20-, 30- and 40+-year veterans), I have always been able to detect some distinct trends. That doesn’t as much make me a trend-watcher as […]
Taming The Internet
Retailers are getting better at integrating online and physical store operations to boost sales and promote their brands.
Retail as Multifamily Development Opportunity
Jeff Green & Jerry Hoffman/Multifamily Executive – With mixed-use opportunities on the rise, development professionals are capitalizing on the growing trend to cross-categorize the retail real estate and multifamily housing markets to create a sense of “place.” This is especially visible in major urban markets like New York and Dallas, but we’re now starting to […]
‘Most major malls are overbuilt’ so Michigan shopping centers are changing
Paula Gardner/MLive – Metro Detroit quietly stepped to the forefront of U.S. mall transformations early this year with a deal for a ¼-million square foot anchor tenant that won’t display the latest fashions, attract new customers or push sales per square foot. Yet retail experts say that Ford Motor Company moving 2,100 employees into Fairlane Mall […]
