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SHERMAN, HASKOLL LEFT THEIR MARKS ON SHOPPING CENTER INDUSTRY

ICSC Past Trustee Marty Sherman, a pioneering retail member of the association, died June 27. He was 76. As chairman of retail development services and senior vice president of the massive U.S. Shoe Corp. (later acquired by Luxottica Corp.), Sherman oversaw the opening of 6,600 stores across the country. Retiring from U.S. Shoe in 1994 after 32 years, he formed M&S Advisory Group, a Cincinnati-based consulting firm whose clients included Crabtree & Evelyn. Sherman was an ICSC trustee from 1979 to 1987 and served on the Tenants’ Committee, among other activities.

“Marty Sherman was one of the best known and liked retail real estate professionals, famous among other things for being a proponent of the downsizing of stores at a time when his firm was adding furiously to its store count by rolling out new brands,” said former ICSC President John T. Riordan. “Marty was a big fan of the off-price concept and a vocal proponent of it. Indeed, Marty was always vocal.”

Sherman is survived by his wife, Beverly, a son, two stepdaughters and two grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the Sherman family has requested donations to the ICSC Educational Foundation. Said Beverly Sherman, “He believed in helping people in the industry that was so near and dear to him.”

Michael Haskoll, a British retail architect who acquired a reputation for versatility before retiring in 1995, died June 20. He was 76. His firm, Michael Haskoll Associates, worked on office, retail and historic building refurbishments in Britain, among them the Whitgift Shopping Centre, in Croydon. But Haskoll designed new centers, too, including the Potteries Shopping Centre, in Hanley, which won several industry awards. An enthusiastic volunteer for ICSC and the British Council of Shopping Centres (he was a founding member of the latter), Haskoll was chairman of the Shopping Centre Awards Jury several years running. “He was a pleasantly demanding individual with respect to standards,” said John T. Riordan. “That was a quality he had. He taught by example.” Haskoll co-authored Shopping for Pleasure, a textbook of shopping district design issues.