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National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2003 Lee Murphy	Putting New Life Into Dead Spaces There's an estimated 500 million sq. ft. of excess retail space nationwide, most of it second-generation space. A tight coterie of retail space disposition specialists has become expert at finding new tenants for dark spaces -- a business that is both lucrative and risky.
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2001 Merrie S. Frankel	Neighborhood Shopping Centers vs. the Superstores The expansion of superstores by Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target continues to affect community shopping centers. Despite these challenges, we believe that grocery- and discount-anchored community shopping centers remain stable assets overall...
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2007 Sara Drummond	New Rules for Retail Saturated markets and deep-pocket competitors are prompting changes in this once by-the-book commercial real estate investment sector.
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2005 Joe Gose	An Appetite for Risk After a decade of relentless, price-driven competition, supercenter grocers have seized nearly 17% of the national market, and the supermarket chains that anchor most neighborhood centers have lost their guaranteed drawing power. Yet investors continue to pour money into them.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2014 Matthew K. Harding	Retail ReMix Post-recession momentum offers a chance to reinvent grocery-anchored properties.
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2004 Sarah Hoban	A Breath of Fresh Air Lifestyle centers evolve to meet shoppers' demands for convenience as shoppers, retailers, and developers are discovering fresh air's benefits.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2013 Jim Conway	Retail Revival A new strategy breathes life into so-called zombie centers where the main anchor tenant is missing. Antique malls are part of a $13 billion used-merchandise industry that grew stronger during the recent recession.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2005 Michael Wagner	Ailing Strip Centers Get Into Shape Once shunned by retail strip centers, health clubs are adding muscle to older locations where grocery anchors have closed. Over the past two years, the trend has accelerated.
Real Estate Portfolio Jan/Feb 2005 Allison Landa	Returning to Its Roots Federal Realty Investment Trust builds on basics to grow from within. Federal owns 109 retail properties totaling 16.8 million sq.ft., with a market cap of $2.5 billion.
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 H. Lee Murphy	Reinventing Retail Mall replacements are evolving so quickly that nobody can agree on exactly what the new model is, or what it ought to be called. Developers are willing to mix and match practically any kind of tenant in creating shopping environments with an eclectic urban feel.
HBS Working Knowledge January 17, 2005 Robert Spector	When Category Domination Isn't Enough Reacting negatively to jammed aisles and backed-up checkout lines, shoppers are turning to smaller specialty stores, where they can get in and get out. In response, mega retailers are opening small, easier-to-shop, neighborhood stores, says this book excerpt from Category Killers.
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2015 Beth Mattson-Teig	Retail Redux? In some markets, a good space is hard to find.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Wendy Zellner	Call It Mall-Mart As anchor department stores fail, big discounters move in
Entrepreneur May 2010 Julie Bennett	How to Negotiate a Lease It's a buyer's market for commercial space, and landlords are offering huge concessions to new tenants - but you won't get a nickel unless you know what to ask for.
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2006 Beth Mattson-Teig	Squeezing Profits Out of Shopping Centers Huge demand for retail -- and commercial real estate properties in general -- has compressed cap rates. So, how are asset managers squeezing more profits out of their retail assets?
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2012 Beth Mattson-Teig	Rethinking Retail New strategies influence demand for brick and mortar stores.
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2011 Rich Rosfelder	Retail Goes Downtown Investors pursue opportunities in the heart of the city... An interview with Cynthia C. Shelton about retail properties...
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2013 Rich Rosfelder	Shopping Center Shift Retail owners rethink tenanting strategies.
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 Berner & Grow	Out-Discounting The Discounter Why dollar stores that sell at cut-rate prices are giving Wal-Mart pause.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2004 Bryan J. Paulsen	Smart Moves in Small Towns Small towns can repair the damage big-box vacancies cause and assist struggling central business districts by creatively reusing empty space.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2004 Alyce Lomax	California Snubbing Wal-Mart Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) is having some trouble with its supersized Supercenter concept, with high-profile difficulty brewing in California. Voting is under way today for several communities there that are attempting to block entry of the superscaled version of the discount store, according to USA Today
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2004 Joe Gose	A Golden Age for Lifestyle Centers Experts predict that as many as 30 new lifestyle centers could open annually for the next five years before saturation.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Jim Popp	Taking Their Cue From Hotel Owners Considerable debate swirls around the valuation of shopping centers for property taxation. The debate focuses on whether shopping centers contain business value. Owners pay excess property taxes when assessors refuse to deduct business value.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Joe Gose	Survival of the Fittest Consumers are being forced to curtail their spending. Retailers have responded by closing stores, reversing ambitious expansion plans and, in some cases, filing for bankruptcy. That in turn puts stress on retail real estate landlords.
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 Robert McNatt	Who Says Wal-Mart Is Bad For Cities? Underserved neighborhoods welcome its jobs, low prices, and tax revenue.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Ben Johnson	Baby Boom Nation The biggest catalyst in the evolution of shopping centers over the past half-century has been the Baby Boomers, the 77 million babies born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964.
National Real Estate Investor November 1, 2002 Matt Valley	Chicago's State Street Fights Retail Blues The effort to revive State Street, the famous shopping district in the Windy City that includes such venerable institutions as department store Marshall Field's and the Chicago Theater, have hit a bump in the road.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Mar/Apr 2010 Bridget Grams & Ben LaForest	Retail Details Renegotiating leases requires attention to each tenant's circumstances.
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2008 Charles Keenan	Simon Says CEO David Simon discusses Simon Property Group's sustainability efforts, globalization, acquisitions and challenges of running the largest U.S. REIT.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006 Jennifer Dawson	Re-Energizing Houston Although the energy industry in Houston is enjoying a resurgence, the office sector continues to lag the broader economic recovery with a metro vacancy rate of nearly 18%. But increasingly the market appears poised for a major turnaround.
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Joe Gose	Supercenter Showdown Long considered as safe, recession-proof investments, grocery-anchored centers are now becoming a war zone as Wal-Mart and Target roll out their supercenter concepts. For property owners and investors, the risks are rising.
Real Estate Portfolio Nov/Dec 2003 Michele Lerner	Happy Days at Regency Centers Martin "Hap" Stein, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Regency Centers Corporation, which his parents started, speaks about the evolution of his family's business, the changes in the retail sector and whether any of his three daughters will be following in his footsteps.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2006 H. Lee Murphy	Big Demand for Small Malls Beyond the drumbeat of consolidation among super-regional shopping center owners in recent years, small malls have become a popular investment for niche retail firms, which lack the desire -- and resources -- to mix it up with behemoths.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2011 Ellen M. Berkowitz	Got Vacant Space? Think Inside the Box Leasing specialists in retail and other property sectors need to think inside the box -- the vacant big box, the empty warehouse, or the small office building abandoned by the busted start-up firm.
Knowledge@Wharton April 9, 2003	The Wal-Mart Empire: A Simple Formula and Unstoppable Growth The company has a simple formula of low prices and rocket-science logistics to back up its operations. There's no secret to its success.
National Real Estate Investor March 1, 2005 Jonathan Barry	Breathing New Life Into Flagging Retail Centers As the market shifted, stabilized and improved, entrepreneurial investors who saw the embedded value of underperforming retail centers gained momentum in metro Atlanta.
CIO October 15, 2002 Susannah Patton	Food Fight As they struggle for survival against discounters like Wal-Mart, supermarkets turn to IT to make shopping easier, cheaper and more profitable for them.
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2014 Beth Mattson-Teig	New Digs? Retailers consider the costs of new construction.
National Real Estate Investor October 6, 2003	Pennsylvania Mall Sells for $20M An 840,000 sq. ft. shopping mall in Harrisburg, Pa., has changed hands. Feldman Equities and joint venture partner Lubert-Adler Partners bought the Harrisburg East Mall from Prudential Insurance Co. of America. The sale price was roughly $20 million, according to an industry source.
Real Estate Portfolio Sep/Oct 2005 Britt & Graves	Retail Has a Reckoning As the dust clears from several industry-shaking deals, REIT professionals weigh in on the sector's next evolution.
The Motley Fool August 26, 2010 Alyce Lomax	Costco Finds a New Stomping Ground Warehouse retailer Costco may eventually show up in a most unlikely place: your local shopping mall.
Real Estate Portfolio Jan/Feb 2004 Michael Fickes	Chaim Katzman, the fuel behind Equity One's growth When Chaim Katzman took Equity One, Inc. public in 1998, he started with nothing more than a handful of grocery-anchored shopping centers. Today, Equity One owns 182 centers in the fastest growing metropolitan areas of 12 southern U.S. states.
National Real Estate Investor November 25, 2002 Parke Chapman	Acadia picks up 1 million sq. ft. center in Delaware Acadia Realty Trust is expected to acquire a major open-air retail complex in Wilmington, Del.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Adam J. Crawford	Does Size Matter in Retail? These chains think so.
National Real Estate Investor April 23, 2003 Parke Chapman	JLL wins plum retail management assignment Jones Lang LaSalle has won the combined leasing and management assignment for the 989,000 million sq. ft. Lincoln Mall in Matteson, Ill. Dallas-based Realty America Group recently purchased the mall.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Dees Stribling	Avoiding Anyplace USA A new generation of retail developments, which are often components of mixed-use projects, aspire to be much more than mere destinations. Developers and their architects want these retail venues to be places with memorable characteristics.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2003 Mulartrick et al.	Lifestyle Centers Capitalize on Shoppers' Need for Speed Many upscale tenants currently are chasing the hottest retail trend -- lifestyle centers -- and questioning their commitment to enclosed malls because of consumers' desire for convenience.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2008 Rich Duprey	Wal-Mart's Little Piggy in the Marketplace The big-box discounter's small-format stores may not resonate with consumers.
National Real Estate Investor October 1, 2005 Joe Gose	The Office Investment Gamble Several office markets battered by the tech wreck that jolted Wall Street and led to a recession four years ago are still plagued by double-digit vacancies. But that hasn't fazed investors, who are generally paying more for properties today than they were in 2001 when the buildings were filled with tenants.
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2004 Hortense Leon	Miami Makeover Attracts Investors Miami's newly minted reputation for integrity and efficiency in city government sparks an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion of new construction, ranging from condos to an office tower, in and near the city's downtown area.