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TrizecHahn’s Aladdin takes Paris
Here’s a cost-effective way to get some media attention: Take advantage of the grand opening next door. With travel writers and other media traveling to Las Vegas for the opening of the Paris Casino and Resort Sept. 1, San Diego-based TrizecHahn Development Corp. created a media center for its upcoming Desert Passage at Aladdin, opening literally next door to the new hotel in summer 2000. The media center provided technical support including computers, phones and fax lines, tours of Desert Passage’s architectural studio, hardhat tours of the site, and, naturally, interviews with TrizecHahn and other Aladdin officials. “It’s amazing how many responses we’ve had,” TrizecHahn spokeswoman Janene Kraft said in late August. “It’s not like we’re encroaching on their opening; we’re just seeing the people who’d be there.”

Playground comes to Paradise
Paradise Valley Mall in Phoenix now features a playground with a healthy slant. In a partnership with Paradise Valley Hospital, the center has created giant playstations in a 3,300-square-foot area that depicts five essential ingredients for well-being: fresh air, exercise, good food, education and rest. The playground is open free to the public during mall hours, and is designed for children six and under.

Renaissance to sport fitness facility
Continuing on the playground theme: The rebuilding of Bountiful, Utah’s Five Points Mall into Renaissance Towne Centre, a 310,000-square-foot retail/restaurant/entertainment project, will be anchored by a 65,000-square-foot Sports Mall fitness facility that will house a junior Olympic swimming pool, NBA-sized basketball courts, aerobics studio, spinning room and the largest free-weight gym in the area, among other elements.

Water Tower Place developer dies
Philip Klutznick, the Chicago developer behind the development of Water Tower Place, died Aug. 16 at the age of 92. A specialist in housing construction who oversaw the building of houses for defense workers during World War II, Klutznick later went on to found Urban Investment and Development Co., a predecessor company of Urban Retail Properties.

U.S. No. 1 on list of global retailers
U.S. retailers continue to dominate the list of the world’s top retailers, according to professional services firm PriceWaterhouse Coopers’ 1998 list of Top 100 Global Retailers. Chains from the United States accounted for 37 of the Top 100, with the United Kingdom trailing at 11 chains. France and Germany accounted for 10 retailers each, with Japan posting eight of the Top 100. Wal-Mart remains No. 1, with The Kroger Co. at No. 3. Other U.S. chains in the Top 10: Sears, Roebuck and Co. (No. 6); Albertson’s (No. 9); and Kmart (No. 10). To qualify, a retailer had to generate sales of $4.4 billion, with more than half the revenue derived from retail sales.

Corrections
A profile of Dulles Town Center that ran in the August issue identified William Ferrell as director of leasing for Lerner Enterprises. That post is now held by William Winterburn.

In the August interview with Cadillac Fairview Chairman Bruce Duncan, the sales per square foot for Cambridge Shopping Centres were misstated. Cambridge’s sales totaled C$414 ($285) per square foot last year.