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1.9KRetailRetail Malls Look For New Innovations, Commerce And Otherwise
What to do with retail malls? How about making them into doctors’ offices? That is among the latest trends as retail reinvents...
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2.1KSizzle/FizzleSizzle Or Fizzle As Mall Landlord Eyes Investing In Tenants?
Simon to the rescue? To save the malls, and the retailers in the malls, look to the mall owner. Maybe. News came...
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2.4KRetailThe Void: Can Virtual Reality Save Malls?
Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the...
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2.6KRetailOnline Shopping Prompts Retailers To Leave Malls
More retailers are leaving malls than ever before as online shopping soars and debt-ridden chains collapse. Household names like Sears and Victoria’s...
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4.8KRetailVacancy Rate At Shopping Centers Hit 10.2 Percent In First Quarter
The vacancy rate of community shopping centers in the U.S. reached 10.2 percent in the first quarter — up from a year earlier...
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5.0KAmazonAmazon To Roll Out Kiosks To Hawk Its Products In India
Amazon is gearing up to roll out kiosks in India that will enable consumers to purchase its hardware including its Kindle eBook...
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5.7KRetailAmazon To Shutter US Pop-Up Stores
Amazon will shutter all 87 of its pop-up stores in the United states by the end of next month, according to a...
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3.5KRetailBowling Alleys, Gyms Taking Over Mall Space
A new study has found that in-line tenants in malls are signing on for shorter lease periods, while non-traditional tenants are opting...
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5.8KRetaileCommerce Brands Find A Home At The Mall
Digitally-native brands are testing the brick-and-mortar retail waters, and, now, new malls are set to have entire spaces designed around them: Hudson...
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4.6KRetailMalls Embrace Modular Retail Tenants
Malls are providing digital native brands with the opportunity to rent space without the typical lengthy commitment. In one case, real estate...
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3.7KRetailTelltale Signs: Warehouse Leasing Vs Retail Leasing
It’s a good time in America to have a retail space ready to rent out — eCommerce merchants are on the hunt...
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2.9KRetailMall Rents Fell 4.6 Percent In Q2
JLL found that mall rents in Q2 dropped 4.6 percent from the first quarter and 7.1 percent from one year prior. But,...
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3.5KRetailRetail Chains Find New Ways To Fight
It’s a good time to be a retail chain. Yeah, really. The second quarter earnings season has brought a flow of positive...
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3.3KRetailMall Vacancy Rate Hits Highest Level Since 2012
The vacancy rate at malls around the country hit 8.6 percent in the second quarter, marking the highest level since back in...
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3.1KRetailAmerican Dream Miami Receives Approval From Florida Officials
The 6.2 million-square-foot American Dream Miami — potentially the most expensive mall ever built — has received approval from officials in a Florida...
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Malls Contend With Store Closings In The First Quarter
Restaurants and retail landlords reported a mixed bag of first-quarter earnings results on Wednesday (May 2), beating analysts’ expectations in some cases...
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3.9KRetailMall Operators Continue To Struggle With Store Closures
Things are looking somewhat better for Simon Property Group than segment watchers were expecting, as revenues clocked in at $1.4 billion, edging...
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4.7KRetailBrookfield Properties Buys GGP For $9.25B
A few months after General Growth Properties (GGP) rejected a buyout offer from global real estate investment firm Brookfield Property Partners, the two...
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5.2KRetailModern-Day Pop-Up Shops Build Upon A ‘Spooky’ October Idea From A Clothing Merchant
Joseph Marver wasn’t having the best October selling dresses in his California store a few decades ago. But he did notice that...
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6.2KRetailRestaurants May Be The New Shopping Mall ‘Anchor Tenants’
At one point, restaurants were not considered desirable tenants in shopping centers. Times have changed, however, as landlords seek to replace anchor...
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Rebirth Of Malls: Anchor Stores To Become Destinations For Experiences
In the future, consumers will come to malls — but they may not come to a large department store with a savings...
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3.8KRetailWhile Some Malls Are On The Decline, Other Malls Bring In Billions In Sales
A year after General Growth Properties’ (GGP) Providence Place opened in 1999, the mall boasted 120 tenants, including a slew of upmarket...
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5.9KRetailMall Stores Seek ‘Under-The-Radar’ Closures
To avoid publicity, retail stores in U.S. malls are closing without a formal announcement or honoring the length of their leases, CNBC...
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6.0KRetailMall Now A Four-Letter Word For Some Operators?
Turns out “mall” is a passé, a name, a nomer that hearkens back to the musty days of the 80s. The Wall...
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3.2KRetailNew Retail Space Going Up Next To Homes
Retail space may be plentiful in some parts of the country, but that hasn’t stopped developers from building more of it, even...
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5.0KeCommerceMall Operator Predicts Online Shopping Ceiling Of 20 Percent Of Retail Sales
Unibail-Rodamco CEO Christophe Cuvillier said on Thursday (Dec. 14) that he believes brick-and-mortar retail will never go away and that eCommerce has its...
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Westfield Malls Bought For $15.7B By French Mall Operator
Westfield, the Australia-based mall operator with a sizable U.S. presence, is being bought for $15.7 billion from Unibail-Rodamco SE, the European shopping...
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3.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsGGP Malls Passes On Brookfield’s $14.8 Billion Offer
Real estate investment trust GGP has rejected a buyout offer from global real estate investment firm Brookfield Property Partners, according to news...
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Geotracking Gives Brick-And-Mortar A Leg Up On eCommerce
With decreasing sales at brick-and-mortar stores, declining foot traffic and closing storefronts for retail chains, shopping mall owners are using new technology...
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6.5KRetailSimon Wants To Help eCommerce Brands Get Into The Mall
While it seems like much of physical retail is trying to figure out how to better emulate eCommerce brands, eCommerce startups are...
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3.2KRetailA Second Act For Strip Malls
The times they are a’changing, and if consumers insist on using the internet to shop, shopping center landlords will have to repurpose...
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4.6KChatbotsCan Chatbot Concierges Save The Mall?
Physical retail has had its share of problems recently, and consumers are finding it increasingly easy to shop digital and save themselves...
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Shopping Malls Are Evolving, But They’re Not There Yet
For years, we’ve seen suburban shopping malls build up and expand out. A favorite pastime for many teenagers growing up in the...
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8.0KData DriversBricks And Mortar, With A Dash Of Service For Customer Stickiness
Can bricks-and-mortar survive the eCommerce onslaught? In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Dave Barrowman, who serves as Vice President of Innovation...
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4.1KRetailMalls Challenge eCommerce Era With Costly Upgrades
With the vast number of bankruptcy filings and department store closure announcements over the past year, it’s safe to say the retail...
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4.7KRetailShopping Malls May Not Go Extinct After All, Shopping Mall Execs Say
The end may not be as close as we think for the shopping mall world. It’s a hard reality to imagine, as...
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4.1KCommerceInvestors Betting On The End Of Malls
Malls are hurting, that much is true. As consumers continue to move their purchases elsewhere, many of these behemoths of brick-and-mortar retail...
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3.5KMarket ConditionsMoving Beyond The Crowded ‘Big Short’ Trade On Malls
It may have been relatively easy pickings, the so-called “mall short.” But on Wall Street, crowded trades can become traps, when sentiment...
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2.9KRetailAre Shopping Centers Actually Doing Better Than We Think?
International Council of Shopping Centers CEO Thomas McGee told The Miami Herald that the ongoing message that shopping malls and center are coming...
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7.1KSizzle/FizzleJack Ma’s Sizzling Week (And Quarter, Too)
All in a week's work. Beat the Street, make a buy. Alibaba did both, putting to rest fears of a Chinese consumer...
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Mall Owners Looking To Get Out Of The Mall Business
As a wave of bankruptcies continues to roll through retail, the malls that house those now-defunct stores are finding the going increasingly...
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3.0KRetailLira Slumps, Pressuring Turkish Retailers
The lira, Turkey’s currency, has depreciated significantly over the last several months as measured against the dollar, a trend that Fortune says...
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Mall Closures Hit Small-Town America Hard
The rise in online shopping continues to have dire impacts on the traditional shopping model. As a result, announcements of mall closures...
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Are Online Merchants The Mall’s Unlikely Salvation?
One might imagine that mall operators nationwide take a rather jaundiced view of the internet, since online shopping has more or less...
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2.0KRetailScargo Hill Capital Launches To Lend Money To Struggling Retailers
Andy Moser, a former lender to RadioShack, and Thomas J. Lynch, the onetime chief executive of Frederick’s of Hollywood, have joined forces...
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3.7KRetailMore Security In Wake Of Mall Brawls
‘Tis the season to riot. A string of major disturbances at malls nationwide on the day after Christmas has led police to...
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Simon Malls Lead The Charge To The Future
The American mall, as its consumers know it, has evolved over the past 50 years, and even the last 20. As the...
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Mall Investors Getting Ready For Another Blue Christmas
The investors who funded the last great expansion in mall commerce — before digital shopping came on the scene and disrupted everything about the...
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Holiday Sales Expected To Rebound, Health And Beauty Topping List
Holiday shopping sales are expected to rebound this year, with more than a 4 percent year-over-year increase. Last year’s growth of 3.6...
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Mall Chain Owner Considering Selling Off Its Malls
Forest City Realty Trust, a real estate company that owns more than two dozen malls and shopping centers across the country, may...
