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National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	Life After Dark A shopping center can be crippled when a supermarket or other anchor goes dark. A big source of traffic vanishes along with the anchor. But a departing anchor is not necessarily all bad news.
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.
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.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2014 Matthew K. Harding	Retail ReMix Post-recession momentum offers a chance to reinvent grocery-anchored properties.
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 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.
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.
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 Matt Valley	Downsizing Grocery Stores: A Recipe for Success? By downsizing to 35,000 or 40,000 sq. ft., and removing duplicate product from store shelves, traditional grocers can offer convenience for hurried shoppers. Despite risks associated with necessity retail, real estate investors remain bullish.
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2013 Rich Rosfelder	Shopping Center Shift Retail owners rethink tenanting strategies.
Real Estate Portfolio Mar/Apr 2001	How The West Was Won Stuart Tanz, president and CEO of shopping center REIT Pan Pacific Retail Properties, Inc., is quick to point out that a diverse tenant base and the tireless efforts of his employees are the keys to the company's success.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HBS Working Knowledge September 13, 2004 Nunes & Johnson	Break Out of the Big Box Looking for a moneyed market? Forget the retail fortress shopping mall and set up shop in a "lifestyle center." An excerpt from the book Mass Affluence.
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.
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 February 1, 2005 Patricia Kirk	Sizing Up the Supermarket Industry Growing segmentation in the grocery industry brought the average size of new stores in 2004 under 40,000 sq. ft. for the first time in a decade, reports the Food Marketing Institute (FMI).
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2005 Dees Stribling	Retail Investors Undeterred What would it take to slow investor interest in retail properties in 2006? Rising long-term interest rates? A couple of major natural disasters? High energy costs that threaten to take consumer dollars away from stores?
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2006	Is Any Property Sector Truly Recession-Proof? Any developer or investor who declares that a particular property type is "recession-proof" is wrong.
HBS Working Knowledge March 10, 2015 Sean Silverthorne	The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution The growth of ecommerce is creating new leaders in retail while putting many famous brands at risk. Here is part two of our series on the new book, Retail Revolution.
InternetNews May 27, 2004 Craig McGuire	Food Lion Checking Out With Wi-Fi Grocery chain eyes new ways to enhance the shopping experience by helping customers check themselves out with the help of Wi-Fi.
The Motley Fool June 10, 2011 Shubh Datta	Wal-Mart Can't Just Duct Tape This Massive Problem Wal-Mart to test its small-store format in the U.S.
HBS Working Knowledge October 10, 2011 Lal & Alvarez	Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink Big-box retailers that are slow to see the tsunami wave of online competition on the horizon stand to be swept away.
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BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 Ian Rowley	Can Wal-Mart Woo Japan? Early signs at the Seiyu Wal-Mart chain suggest the retailer's model for Japan may work.
Commercial Investment Real Estate May/Jun 2006 Bernard J. Haddigan	An Appetite for Retail Despite slowed consumer spending, investors are still hungry for quality retail properties.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2013 Jennifer Norbut	Beyond the E-tail Era New factors are shaping retail's next phase. Research shows and many retail industry experts agree that consumers are settling into a preference for a "blended" shopping experience.
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.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Wendy Zellner	Call It Mall-Mart As anchor department stores fail, big discounters move in
The Motley Fool August 10, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Aiming at a Moving Target If you're a big retailer, you're going to suffer one way or another when the economy slows -- and whether you suffer incrementally less than other companies may not make much difference in the stock price.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Rich Duprey	Kroger Labors to Profit Union unrest may cut into supermarket chain Kroger's growth plans.
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.
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Anthony Bianco	The Wizard Of Odd Wackiness is grocer Jim Bonaminio's calling card. Will he keep Wal-Mart at bay?
HBS Working Knowledge March 22, 2004 Manda Salls	Loyalty: Don't Give Away the Store Loyalty programs are profitable--if used correctly. Harvard Marketing professor Rajiv Lal discusses how grocery stores get it wrong. But you can get it right.
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 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
The Motley Fool January 30, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Winn-Dixie's Not Winning The Southern supermarket chain's stock suffers spoilage.
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.
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National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2004	Equity One Buys Florida Shopping Center for $21.98 Million Equity One, a shopping center REIT, has purchased the Medical & Merchants at San Pablo Shopping Center in Jacksonville, Fla., for $21.98 million.
The Motley Fool May 9, 2011 Alyce Lomax	Gas, Grocers, and Grim Realities Inflation hurts: Grocery stocks have gotten a whole lot riskier.
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?
The Motley Fool July 5, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Wal-Mart's Summer of Love The world's largest retailer comes through with a better-than-expected June showing.
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National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2005 Matt Valley	Q & A The shopping center sector is still reaping the rewards of intense investor interest in real estate, but questions still remain about the influence of long-term interest rates, the impact of super-retailers, and the speculation of when the investment bubble will burst.
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