Retailing: Analysis
Incubator Programs Allow Landords to Nurture Future Tenants
Apr 14, 2010
In the face of limited demand from national chains, many retail landlords are helping develop fledgling retail concepts....
Data Provider Geoscape Develops Niche Analyzing Ethnic Shoppers
Mar 26, 2010
Geoscape has built a name for itself among retailers and consumer product manufacturers by paying close attention to a growing and often misunderstood consumer segment—ethnic shoppers....
Pent-up Desire to Shop Drives Improved Sales Performance for U.S. Retailers
Mar 16, 2010
As the employment picture stabilizes and the stock market posts moderate gains, consumers that have denied themselves all indulgences for the past two years are starting to come back into stores, new data suggests. ...
Swayed By Changing Consumer Patterns, More Retailers Eye Outlets
Jan 20, 2010
Apparel seller New York & Co.’s January 11 announcement that it plans to open up to 25 outlet stores in fiscal 2010 is a sign of the times for the U.S. retail real estate industry. ...
Expanding Retailers Begin to Look at Big-Box Spaces, but Supply Outstrips Demand
Jan 6, 2010, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Up-and-coming big-box tenants are starting to absorb excess space that drowned the market in late 2008 and 2009....
Super Saturday Nor’easter Might Leave a Lasting Impact on Holiday Sales
Dec 29, 2009
The ill-timed snowstorm that hit the Northeast and parts of the Midwest the weekend before Christmas made a dent in sales this holiday shopping season, one that might not be completely wiped out by huge after-Christmas discounts, according to industry insiders. ...
Retail Real Estate Should Begin Its Healing Process in 2010
Dec 4, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
After suffering through a moribund 2009 when investment sales, lending and leasing were largely frozen, the retail real estate industry is showing signs that the long-awaited rebound may be starting. ...
Retailers Must Adapt as Baby Boomers and Gen Y-ers Alter Their Shopping Patterns
Oct 6, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
It doesn't seem that long ago that Abercrombie & Fitch was the hottest apparel retailer around. In the past decade it trotted out three new concepts—Hollister Co., Gilly Hicks and RUEHL No.925 to great fanfare each time...
Forced to Count Every Dollar, Retailers Re-evaluate Site Selection Practices
Sep 15, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Amid all the not-so-great news reported during the dog days of summer—weak back-to-school sales, falling rental rates—there were signs the retail industry might be coming out of hibernation...
Nationwide Real Estate Network Helps Tenants Reduce Their Rents (8/19)
Aug 19, 2009, by Elaine Misonzhnik
When retail landlords started to get an increasing number of rent reductions requests at the beginning of this year, many in the industry took the trend as a bad omen...
With Consumers Set On Saving, Expect a Lackluster Back-to-School Shopping Season (7/7)
Jul 7, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Chances are there will be little brand envy when American kids head back to school this fall...
Retail Landlords Grant Temporary Deferments, Come Up with Barter System to Set Off Rent Declines (6/30)
Jun 30, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
As vast numbers of U.S. retailers struggle with disappointing sales results month after month, the pressure has grown on landlords to grant relief...
Private Equity Racks Up Checkered Record in Retail Buyouts (6/29)
Jun 29, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
When Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), the legendary New York City-based private equity player, purchased the discount retailer Dollar General for $7.3 billion in July of 2007, the deal hardly made waves...
Weak May Sales Numbers Damage Notion of "Green Shoots" (6/16)
Jun 16, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
May's retail sales numbers might disappoint those who hoped the current downturn is nearing an end, industry experts say...
The Exceptions (5/14)
May 14, 2009
Even in today's horrendous business climate, firms bucking the odds are lending money, buying assets, developing projects and opening new stores...
Site Analytics Helps Retailers Look at the Big Picture (5/13)
May 13, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
The U.S. retail landscape is littered with chains that seemed to have found the winning formula a few years ago only to end up closing hundreds of stores in recent months...
Coming to the Rescue (5/7)
May 7, 2009
Will the government’s bailout of the financial sector and Obama’s ambitious budget help retail real estate?...
Bright Spots
May 1, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
Amid retailer closings and bankruptcies, value-oriented chains shine...
Money Talks
May 1, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Regional and local banks, private equity players and foreign financial institutions still have money to lend for retail real estate...
Bottoms Up
May 1, 2009, By Jennifer Popovec
Investors savor higher cap rates and a lack of competition....
Building Confidence
May 1, 2009, By Mike Janssen
Some developers find ways to build in a down market...
Value Engineering
May 1, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Retailers respond to shift in consumer spending by beefing up discounts...
Finish Line Seeks Gold in Spite of Real Estate Downturn (4/16)
Apr 15, 2009, By Lauren Shepherd
The sporting goods retailer renegotiates leases and cuts costs to prepare for a turnaround...
VIDEO: Factors Find Upside to Retailer Blues (3/27)
Mar 27, 2009
J. Michael Stanley, of Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc., speaks about a recent surge in factoring activities within the retail sector....
Room to Grow (1/29)
Jan 29, 2009, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Outlet centers’ appeal in the throes of an U.S. economic and retail downturn...
