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Is the retail collapse over? Shopping mall owners think so.

Foreign brands and "e-tailers" like Warby Parker are helping to fill some of the millions of square feet of retail space that went dark last year. The decline in occupancy rates at shopping centers an... read more

A tale of retail: The shopping mall

Victor Gruen went to his grave cursing the structures for which he became famous — the enclosed shopping center, better known as “the mall.” The renowned architect came to America in 1938 after fleein... read more

Cedar Valley retail sectors deal with changing mall landscape

WATERLOO — An ongoing seismic shift in the national retail landscape has shaken the Cedar Valley’s two largest shopping centers ... of Northern Iowa. Both malls have had a succession of owners and man... read more

‘Boring’ quarter is good for mall owners

Mall landlords, besieged for the past two years by the rise of online shopping ... in the country, the so-called A malls that industry analysts maintain will be able to weather the tumult. “We never p... read more

Billionaire retail mogul Mike Ashley vows to save 80% of House of Fraser stores after purchasing chain for £90million

So confident is he of achieving his target that he added: “In a year’s time you can hold my feet to the fire on that.” More than half were set for closure before Ashley, 53, took over last ... the bri... read more

In a U.S. mall owner’s world, ‘boring’ is actually pretty good

Mall landlords, besieged for the past two years by the rise of online shopping ... in the country, the so-called A malls that industry analysts maintain will be able to weather the tumult. “We never p... read more

You Won’t Believe What Your Favorite Retail Stores Used to Look Like, and What They Look Like Today

Once bustling malls are ghost towns. Shopping online ... Sears’ retail dominance started to slip in 1991, when Walmart eclipsed it as America’s largest retailer. While it’s still a household name, it’ ... read more

130-year-old Continental Gin Building, artists' studios for decades, to become a Deep Ellum multi-use mall

First, the good news: One of this city's oldest buildings — 130 years, same age as the state Capitol building — will be given a "major overhaul," in the words of its new owners ... its Uptown shadow o... read more

Retail bankruptcies, changing shopping habits pose big challenges for St. Louis' largest mall owner

Revenue from CBL Properties’ four St. Louis-area malls, which combined include more than 4 million square feet of retail space, has plummeted more than 20 percent over the last half ... that specializ... read more

Shopping Center REITs: Good Riddance To The Retail Apocalypse

Shopping Center REITs have surged more than 13% over the ... example, we think it’s helpful to show the clear fallacies of the extreme hypothesis that e-commerce will entirely usurp the traditional br... read more

Reinventing retail: Developers thinking outside the box to try and save local malls

But as brick-and-mortar stores face growing competition from online shopping, some mall owners are trying to reinvent the retail experience. Over the past couple of decades, Southern New Englanders wi... read more

REITerating Our Conviction On High Quality Retail REITs: Malls

We believe the recent collapse in mall and shopping center REIT share prices ... malls and speak of Amazon as if it will take over the world, a casual investor might think that a majority of retail sa... read more