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Starwood Capital Group May Head to the Mall
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Greenwich, Conn.’s Starwood Capital Group is on the cusp of acquiring majority stakes in a portfolio of U.S. shopping malls from Westfield Group, a...
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Out in Vegas, New ICSC Chairman
On the heels of his election to the post last month, Brad Hutensky, president and principal of Hutensky Capital Partners has officially taken over the role of chairman of the International Council of...
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Las Vegas Homecoming: Cushman & Wakefield’s Gene Spiegelman Returns to the...
With the International Council of Shopping Centers' RECon event around the corner, The Commercial Observer sat down with Cushman & Wakefield retail services executive vice president Gene Spiegelman...
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With 20 Years of ICSC Conventions Under Her Belt, RKF Veteran Karen...
Robert K. Futterman & Associates executive vice president Karen Bellantoni has attended the International Council of Shopping Centers' RECon event in Las Vegas at least 20 times in her 25-year...
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Biggest Mall Operators M.I.A. at ICSC
The ICSC conference in Las Vegas is the biggest retail convention of the year, a place where nearly every major retailer, owner and broker converges at the sprawling Las Vegas Convention Centers for...
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The Retailer-In-Chief: Cushman & Wakefield Chief Executive Glenn Rufrano
During the International Council of Shopping Centers’ RECon in Las Vegas last week, Glenn Rufrano, Cushman & Wakefield’s chief executive, was a consistent and notable presence inside his company’s...
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Retail Redux: Robert K. Futterman on ICSC, Hurricane Sandy and More
Robert K. Futterman. (Photo courtesy Daniel Weiss) In the merely 13 years since its founding, the retail real estate brokerage Robert K. Futterman & Associates has been responsible for $20 billion...
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Retail on the Rebound: Spirits High at ICSC Event
In 2009 and 2010 “you could have rolled a bowling ball down the aisle” at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ RECon conference “and it wouldn’t have hit anybody,” Massey Knakal executive...
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After Toys “R” Us Departure, Space Would Likely Be Cut Up: C&W
The Cushman & Wakefield broker marketing the Toys “R” Us flagship retail space in Times Square said today that he believes the space will be broken up for multiple tenants after the toy store's...
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Retail Salaries, Bonus Payouts Increasing: ICSC
A new survey from the International Council of Shopping Centers shows that retail real estate salaries and cash-bonus payouts are increasing, with a majority of firms anticipating new hiring and better...
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Aéropostale Concept Store Snags ICSC Silver Medal
The International Council of Shopping Centers has selected Aéropostale and its concept store at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York as a silver medal winner at its annual U.S. Design and...
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Forest City Entertaining Entertainment Venue for Atlantic Center
Atlantic Center. (Forest City Ratner Companies) Forest City Ratner Companies is looking to lease roughly 20,000 square feet on the third floor of Atlantic Center, across from Barclays Center, to an...
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Ripco Targeting Temp Retailers for East 86th Street Building
147 East 86th Street. Before its time to demolish a corner property to make way for a big residential project, Ripco Real Estate is hoping to lease Stillman Development's roughly 15,000-square-foot...
View ArticleManhattan—From Storefronts to Office Space
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about retail sales expectations for Early Bird Thursday through Black Friday and on to Cyber Monday. If you missed it, you can find the column here:...
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Go West, Young Man, Go West to ICSC NY
JUMPIN’ JAVITS?: True, there are no slot machines and blackjack tables at NYC’s ICSC conference at the Javits Center on the Far West Side. New York City’s commercial real estate professionals are...
View ArticleDay 2 of ICSC, Via @CommObserver
Even though the rain did not go away, real estate professionals traipsed over to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for the second, and final, day of the International Council of Shopping Centers‘...
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Wolfgang’s Steakhouse Opening Sixth Manhattan Restaurant
You may already enjoy a 28-day, dry-aged steak at one of five Wolfgang’s Steakhouse outposts in Manhattan—in Midtown, Midtown South or Tribeca— but another one is coming to the borough, Commercial...
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Downtown Flushing to Get First New Movie Theater in 30 Years at 1.2M-SF...
Developers F&T Group and SCG America plan to add a movie theater, Asian-style food hall and high-end international fashion retailers into its 1.2-million-square-foot project in the Flushing section...
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Hickey Freeman Nabs First-Ever Deal for Showroom-Retail Combo Space
Hickey Freeman, a manufacturer of suits for men and boys, will be opening its first-ever location combining retail space and a showroom, Commercial Observer has learned. The company has signed a lease...
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Starbucks Opening First Location Within 54-Block Stretch on Broadway
While Manhattan-based coffee chain Fika is shuttering locations and Los Angeles chain Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf closed its 12 Manhattan locations in October, Starbucks Coffee is opening new stores. On...
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