Municipalities work to BRIDGE the URBAN RETAIL gap
Apr 1, 2001
CITIES ARE TAKING AN ACTIVE ROLE IN LINKING TOGETHER MIXED-USE DEVELOPERS, SITE-SEEKING RETAILERS AND UNDERDEVELOPED URBAN AREAS. Cities old and new,...
The natural
Apr 1, 2001, Erika Hutton Assistant Editor
THROUGH THE YEARS, Birkenstock has been linked to hippies, tie-dye, peace, love and happiness. So when the U.S. division of this German footwear retailer...
Neon infusion
Apr 1, 2001, Brannon Boswell Senior Associate Editor
BEGINNING IN THE 1980s, family-oriented tourists began to invade Las Vegas en masse. To take full advantage of this new demographic, casino owners and...
News Wired
Apr 1, 2001
News Wired Indianapolis Through a partnership with ACI Worldwide, locally based MerchantWired recently began offering retailers a suite of payment software...
Rated G (for green)
Apr 1, 2001, By Elyse Umlauf-Garneau
For skeptics, green design conjures images of tree huggers shivering in minimally heated buildings. But sustainable buildings and the techniques used...
STOREFRONTS: Dressing down
Apr 1, 2001, Jenny King
In the past, Jos. A. Bank was known as a suit store. Today the clothier is moving toward business casual & weekend wear. Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, menswear...
The sky's the limit
Apr 1, 2001
(Descriptions read from left to right and top to bottom, starting from the top left.) Skywall This unusual awning at Redmond Town Center in Redmond, Wash.,...
Dare to be digital
Apr 1, 2001, By Beth Mattson-Teig
RETAILERS ARE dispelling fears that new digital formats will be the death knell for traditional businesses such as photo centers and video stores. Instead...
SLO Growth
Apr 1, 2001, By John McCloud
San Luis Obispo prides itself on marching to a different drummer. The small college community (pop. 43,050) on the central California coast has long been...
Designers
Apr 1, 2001
Whether called town centers, Main Street projects, or lifestyle centers, the back-to-the-future, entertainment-oriented open-air center was the overriding...
