May 11, 2016
Re-inventing Retail: It’s Not Just for the Big Guys Smaller Stores are Joining the Latest Retail Real Estate Trend By Melissa Sievwright - VP, Marketing In a previous post we shared some of the latest developments in the re-invention of retail – a chapter of our industry’s history that is being written right now. But […]
READ STORYApril 27, 2016
Is the Department Store Dying or is this Evolution as Usual? Retail Real Estate Trend: Luxury Retailers Revive the Customer Experience There are some questions in retail that never seem to go away. Among the most-asked concerns is the health of the traditional department store. Is this retail concept on life support? Have department stores […]
READ STORYApril 22, 2016
By Bob Carson, EVP, Levin Management Green Products Help Both Business and the Environment This month, more than a billion people in 192 countries are expected to take action to protect the environment in observation of Earth Day (April 22). Sustainability is always top-of-mind in the retail real estate industry, with property owners, managers and […]
READ STORYFebruary 24, 2016
Consumers Love Online but Still Prefer Shopping at Bricks and Mortar You know there’s a big retail real estate trend brewing when Amazon, the premier pure play online retailer, announces a plan to open 300-plus book stores. Yes, that’s stores, as in bricks-and-mortar establishments. Market tests of on-campus locations and pop-ups in major cities preceded […]
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