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991RetailHow Retailers Are Bundling Up With Experiential Concepts
Usually earnings reports are fairly predictable and boring affairs. Revenue, expenses, competitive threats and then the reason to be optimistic. Outerwear firm...
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1.9KRetailMacy’s Dropped To Junk-Bond Status
Macy’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk by S&P Global Ratings, just weeks after the former department store juggernaut released a...
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1.5KToday In DataReinventing Shopping And Agriculture With Innovation
Developers, among others, are working on reinventing the mall, which is still a compelling retail venue. And payment flexibility could be one of...
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1.6KRetailWhy Innovation Could Be The Call Of The Mall
You don’t get to be Simon Property Group with $2 billion in income during a bad year without being crafty about retail....
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1.3KRetailSimon, Taubman Join Forces To Save The Mall
As retail owners face the challenge of decreased foot traffic and store closures brought on by the rise of eCommerce, mall owners...
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1.9KRetailMacy’s Woes Add To Tough Week For Malls
It’s been a tough week for malls. First, mall tenant Forever 21 was bought out by its landlords. Then, Sephora launched one...
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1.8KRetailBeauty And The Street: Sephora Bets Heavy On Non-Mall Locations
If brick-and-mortar retail is struggling, Sephora didn’t get that email. But that email about malls? Received and duly noted. Sephora announced Tuesday...
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2.0KRetailForever 21 And The Future Of The Mall
Imagine that you owed your bank or landlord a lot of money. Now imagine that said bank or landlord decided to buy...
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4.5KDelivery‘Ghost Kitchens’ Set Up Shop In Malls
Property builders are constructing kitchens in empty malls to help fill food-delivery orders, a new strategy to service the flourishing business segment...
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1.7KRetailVirtual Gaming Grows Into A Force For Tourism And Even Atlantic City
With every passing year, it becomes harder and harder to talk about, or even think about, the global digital and mobile ecosystem...
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5.3KRetailAbercrombie & Fitch To Slash Store Sizes
Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is shrinking its footprint as it makes plans to exit top malls and shopping centers, Bloomberg reported on...
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2.5KSizzle/FizzleThe Looming Long Fizzle Of Cyberattacks
The new year is still new, and those on the front lines battling cybercrimes and the hackers who work from the shadows...
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1.7KRetailCan Sports And Entertainment Really Spark Mall Revivals?
Long live physical retail. That’s the thought one gets when reading news via Bloomberg, which reported “when shoppers visit the long-awaited American...
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3.5KRetailReinventing Retail’s ‘Anchor Store’ For The Omnicommerce Age
That Amazon is a widely lionized yet simultaneously imitated force in retail is not surprising. Ever since Amazon introduced a one-click checkout,...
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2.4KRetailPremium Malls Strained By Online Competitors
Top-tier malls in the country, once thought to be impervious to the changing retail landscape, have been struggling lately, according to a...
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2.1KSizzle/FizzleBetting On A Big Mall Fizzle
The holidays are approaching. The money that comes into retailers’ coffers at brick-and-mortar locations will filter up to pay the landlord; the...
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3.0KRetailNJ Malls Contend With American Dream’s Opening
After serving as destinations for Big Apple shoppers for at least 50 years, northern New Jersey’s malls are aiming to find ways...
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4.2KRetailRetail 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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4.0KSizzle/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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3.4KRetailThe 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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4.3KRetailOnline 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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5.5KRetailVacancy 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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5.7KAmazonAmazon 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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6.6KRetailAmazon 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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4.2KRetailBowling 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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6.3KRetaileCommerce 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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5.1KRetailMalls 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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4.4KRetailTelltale 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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3.3KRetailMall 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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3.8KRetailRetail 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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3.6KRetailMall 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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3.8KRetailAmerican 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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4.2KRetailMall 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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5.2KRetailBrookfield 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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5.7KRetailModern-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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6.7KRetailRestaurants 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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4.1KRetailWhile 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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6.3KRetailMall 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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6.4KRetailMall 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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3.4KRetailNew 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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5.5KeCommerceMall 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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3.5KPartnerships / 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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6.9KRetailSimon 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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3.4KRetailA 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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4.8KChatbotsCan 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...
