Design: Trends
Design trends in retail facilities, including stores, malls and shopping centers, from Retail Traffic, where real estate, retail and development meet.
Showcase Your Green Investment with Green Chic Design
Apr 14, 2010, By Kenneth Gruskin, NREI contributing columnist
Retrofitting properties for energy efficiency or greater sustainability can be mean business for retail property owners. ...
Mall Owners Are Giving Food Courts and Common Areas a Facelift.
Jan 14, 2010, By Mike Janssen
Designers of today’s food courts and other common areas at regional malls draw inspiration from other spheres such as spas, hotels and lively cityscapes—and notably not the food courts of yesteryear. ...
Retail Real Estate's 2009 in Review
Dec 29, 2009
A look back at the most challenging year in retail real estate's history. ...
Architects Learn How to Create Inviting Retail Spaces for Less Money
Oct 27, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Developers building new retail centers and repositioning old ones in today's market climate can take comfort in the fact that they can still create enticing spaces without spending a lot of money. ...
Retail Owners Look to Fountains to Provide Intangible Gains (7/7)
Jul 7, 2009, By Riccardo A. Davis
Mall fountains, are enjoying a resurgence in both indoor and outdoor settings...
Study Abroad
Mar 1, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Mixed-use development has been a hot topic in the U.S. for the past few years. But in the race to get projects done quickly, developers may have lost touch with what makes such environments thrive...
Construction Slowdown
Feb 1, 2009
The American Institute of Architects looked at forecasts from five sources to arrive at a consensus forecast for nonresidential construction in 2009 and...
All Eyes on Center Court
Feb 1, 2009, By Beth Mattson-Teig
Stroll through a mall center court these days and you may think you have stumbled into the lobby of an upscale hotel. Mall owners are taking cues from...
Taking the LEED
Nov 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Few design and construction professionals will quibble with the notion that U.S. retail operators have largely eschewed green design techniques. To date,...
Project Greenlight
Dec 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
In the summer of 2006 an engineering consultant came to the regional offices of Regency Centers Corp. in Walnut Creek, Calif., to preach the benefits...
