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Global Players Brief maintains a growing list of retail malls and shopping centers using Twitter. The list of shopping centers on Twitter will soon top 300 companies. The list includes malls and other organized retail formats throughout the U.S. and other global regions. A live Twitter feed from this combined group of shopping malls is also...
Since the earliest days of the modern retail industry, product evolution and revolution has been the constant influenced by a number of overall market forces. As a consumer product, retail malls are best understood in the context of the ever changing nature of consumer demand and retailing in the U.S....
The term, “category killer,” has become popular in the real estate industry in describing a tenant (store), project concept or roster of tenants, that can dominate a product or service category in the marketplace in which it is placed. “Category killer” retailers seek to dominate a particular category of products...
[ Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA ] Canal Walk Shopping Center is a super-regional mall located in Cape Town, South Africa. The mall includes 1,500,000 square feet of leasable space. An interesting feature of Canal Walk is the “promotions court” at the mall’s center, offering a full stage, state-of-the-art sound and...
The Rouse Company brought an interesting innovation to the retail industry in 1976 with the adaptive re-use of Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston. Faneuil Hall Marketplace was the first of the “festival marketplaces” built in the U.S. by The Rouse Company. The project, which revived a troubled downtown market, is...
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...
