Southwest
To fill California’s gaping budget deficit, the government may squeeze retailers and retail real estate owners
Aug 26, 2009, By Brad Berton
As if conditions aren’t tough enough for California retail property developers - particularly those seeking tenants amid so much vacant space - a troubling specter looms...
Gold Turns to Dust as California Faces Consequences of Past Excess
Aug 26, 2009
After riding at the forefront of the real estate boom in both the residential and commercial sectors in the mid 2000s, California seems to be having a particularly difficult time returning to some semblance of normalcy...
Texas: Bucking the Trend
Nov 1, 2008, By Patricia Kirk
Energy-rich Texas continues to experience job growth and new residents are flooding to Houston and the Dallas/Fort Worth area. That, in turn, has led...
California briefs
Sep 1, 2008
Colliers Macaulay Nicolls will consolidate operations in the Greater Los Angeles region to improve operational efficiencies. Currently the company operates...
L.A. Close-Up
Sep 1, 2008, By Patricia Kirk
No two California metro areas have as much and as little in common as Los Angeles and Hollywood. Downtown Los Angeles is the city's financial center,...
Market-Forced Delays
Sep 1, 2008, Jennifer Popovec
Riverside County's soft economic conditions have forced at least one developer to rethink plans to bring more retail space to the market. Caliber Retail...
Trojan housing
Sep 1, 2008, Patricia Kirk
Los Angeles-based developer Urban Partners LLC, in a joint venture with New York-based investor Blackstone Real Estate Advisors, broke ground in July...
Treading Water
Sep 1, 2008, By Jennifer Popovec
California has more expenses than revenue. And that's causing a fiscal headache for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is seeking approval of his 2008-2009...
Tesco Touches Down
Dec 1, 2007, By Lauren Shepherd
For two years the industry has been abuzz in anticipation of Tesco's landing in the Southwest United States. Some pundits ballyhooed the arrival of the...
In Progress: Newpark
Nov 1, 2007
Location: Park City, Utah Developers: Territory Inc. and Newpark Corp. Size: 820,000 sq. ft. Cost: $350 million Opening: Summer 2009 Buzz: Located 30...
CALIFORNIA BRIEFS
Sep 1, 2006
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. arranged a $20.9 million loan for a 54-acre land parcel in Temelcula Valley, Calif. ...
UNDOCUMENTED GAINS
Sep 1, 2006, By Patricia L. Kirk
Immigration reform is a political hot potato, especially in California. Debate centers around border control and limiting undocumented workers. But new research shows that this population has much to offer the retail industry...
California Dreaming
Sep 1, 2006, JOHN MCDERMOTT
The investment market for retail properties is cooling...
CITY ON A ROLL
Oct 1, 2003, By Patricia L. Kirk
A city without zoning, Houston has become a poster child for urban sprawl, plagued with deed restrictions and high property values. What saved the city...
HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Sep 1, 2003, By Patricia L. Kirk
Downtown Los Angeles bustles with activity from 7 to 7, but when the sun goes down you could roll a bowling ball down Figueroa and not hit a car, jokes...
STRIP SHOPPING
Jun 1, 2003, Beth Karlin Editor-in-Chief
In the retail real estate business, we tend to think of Las Vegas as the site of the ICSC marathon every May. But it's the fastest growing city in the...
Southwestern Surge
Nov 1, 2002, BY STEVE LEWIS
After last year's boom, retail development in the Southwest is enduring the inevitable growing pains that follow the introduction of 20 million sq. ft....
California: The Show Must Go On
Sep 1, 2002, BY JOHN MCCLOUD
California may be feeling more than its share of pain from the nationwide recession, but you would never know it from looking at the state's retail industry....
