Use restrictions—once rigidly dictated by anchor tenants—are undergoing significant transformations leading to new opportunities for retailers and landlords. Historically, retailers wielded considerable influence, often...more
Nearly 70 years ago the American shopping mall was born in Edina, Minnesota. Southdale Mall was the idea of the Godfather of the Shopping Mall, Victor Gruen. The Austrian-American architect immigrated to the United States in...more
The last half of 2021 was virtually a ghost town for filing retail bankruptcies. However, the rise of the Omicron variant has significantly delayed a full return to normal for shopping centers. ...more
The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly changed what people need from real estate, whether it be a concert venue, a strip center, or a shopping mall. Savvy retail real estate owners who, like the Music Hall patrons, adapt to tenants’...more
Though there has been consistently high occupancy and superior rate growth in the industrial market over the past several years, the deep economic recession has caused sentiment expressed in our latest Allen Matkins/UCLA...more
Don’t believe everything you read about retail commercial real estate (Retail CRE). If you just looked at the headlines, then you would see that, since reaching a peak of 146.51 on July 25, 2016, the Dow Jones U.S. Retail...more
As cautioned in my recently co-authored article, “The Future Isn’t Promising for Retailers”, that appeared in the Baltimore Business Journal on March 10, 2017, the retail sector may be primed to see numerous more going out of...more
The California Court of Appeal recently affirmed a retail owner's right to limit expressive activity to areas designated in a written policy. The decision highlights the value of time, place, and manner policies to commercial...more