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[ KUWAIT ] M. H. Alshaya Co. is one of the largest retail and brand licensing organizations in the GCC region, if not worldwide. The company operates across seven retail sectors – fashion and footwear, health and beauty, food service, optics, pharmacy, office supplies and home furnishings. According to the company’s...
[ Glendale, California USA ] Glendale Galleria Mall (Los Angeles area) has started a comprehensive revitalization project, in no small part a competitive response to Caruso Affiliated’s Americana at Brand mixed-use project also in Glendale. Glendale Galleria is owned and managed by General Growth Properties. The 1.5 million SF super-regional shopping center...
History of U.S. Department Stores From the founding of the Republic, through the mid 1850′s, shopping on main streets, central business districts, and in rural general stores is the norm. Starting in the mid 19th Century, department stores are introduced in the U.S. The “Marble Palace” established by Alexander Turney...
[ San Francisco, California USA ] Pier 39 is a shopping and entertainment center built on a waterfront pier in San Francisco, California, known for its views of sea lions basking in the sun adjacent to the pier. Located two blocks east of Fisherman’s Wharf at the northern tip of...
The lifestyle retail center product is essentially an anchor-less type of open-air retail that depends as much on creating pleasant strolling walkways and gather-and-stare plazas, as on the leading retailers included. Lifestyle centers have risen in popularity with consumers as an antidote to the sameness they see had seen in...
[ Ka'anapali, Hawaii USA ] Whalers Village is the primary resort town center of Ka’anapali (Maui), one of Hawaii’s great master-planned resort developments. The open-air waterfront retail shopping area includes 111,857 square feet of retail space on 8.5 acres. Whalers Village website Related Articles San Francisco’s USD $1.6bn Mission Rock...
