CONTENTS
January 2007
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FEATURES
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Honor thy mom-and-pop?
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It can be tough for mom-and-pop stores to get into some prime shopping centers; many landlords prefer to go with lender-recognized national tenants. But some mall owners value independent retailers as a means to differentiate their centers from the competition.
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The search for better market research
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Demographical research is growing more complicated as landlords and retailers seek more-detailed information about their markets.
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Mixed-use centers are greener
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Mixed-use centers could greatly help efforts to curb sprawl as America's population climbs to 400 million by 2045. Accommodating this growth using the suburban sprawl model of the past 60 years will consume 20 million acres, says Forest City's Ronald A. Ratner, but the mixed-use approach to development would use only 5 million acres.
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More retail for Milan, Italy's mall mecca
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Rome might be richer, but Milan, home to the world's first enclosed mall, offers many more places to shop — and is about to add yet more.
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ICSC unveils Architectural Award winners
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Here are the winners of this year's International Design and Development Awards, which honor those who have created first-rate shopping destinations.
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Retail development in a nutshell
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Colony Capital Acquisitions, which now controls the giant Xanadu project in the New Jersey Meadowlands, has brought in former Mills executives to see the project through to completion, including chief Laurence Siegel. Plus other news in brief
