Shopping malls suffer, try to find new life Bizjournals.com The traditional shopping mall once the community center in some cities is being forced to reinvent itself or die at the hands of the online consumer, The New York Times reports. As retailers start to close more and more stores, malls are faced ...

HousewaresLive.net Grim picture for town centres as shop vacancies set to rise Yorkshire Post The latest shop vacancy report by the Local Data Company (LDC) showed that the best performing centres are mainly in the South and West, although York and Harrogate beat the trend with vacancy rates below 10 per cent. Yorkshire and the Humber saw ... Shop vacancy report says future looks bleak Shop vacancies stabilise, but high street remains shakey Dying high streets where up to a third of shops are empty -

Manager says he would be shocked if Forest City were to consider selling its ... Daily Mail - Charleston Bird had a press conference at the mall on Monday to announce that the shopping center will add four new stores this spring -- White House Black Market, Coach, Sephora and Francesca's Collections. Bird also said the mall will undergo "an expansive ...

Goodyear mall is delayed again AZ Central.com 6, 2012 04:07 PM Construction of a regional shopping mall in Goodyear will be delayed again, and developers are reluctant to offer any building timeline except to say they plan to break ground by the time a development agreement with the city ends in ...

Sleep Where you Shop Retail Giant Builds Hotel DesignBuild Source No longer is the shopping experience limited to strip malls or markets. Shopping centres now dominate our urban spaces, catering to the needs of everyone and everything. In recent times however, the sheer size of these retailers have exponentially ...

The Death of an American Tradition Huffington Post Of the 7 billion square feet of real estate dedicated to American shopping centers , a significant percentage -- particularly stores carrying food and household products -- will continue to operate without much change, at least in the next 10 years.

Town Center Plaza parks new tenants on heels of ownership change Kansas City Business Journal Town Center Plaza is welcoming tenants Madewell a newcomer to the Kansas City metro area and Brooks Brothers after coming under new ownership in December. The Leawood shopping center , on 119th Street between Roe and Nall avenues, expects a late ...

Shopping malls now hub for sale of sex Deccan Chronicle The hustle and bustle of shopping malls in the city are a perfect cover for sale of sex. The deals thrive in these malls in the midst of shoppers, according to police sources. Major malls are a hub of escort services that are patronised by the rich, ...

Big Mall Makeover: Using Empty Malls for Farms, Housing, Wedding Receptions TIME By Brad Tuttle bradrtuttle February 6, 2012 + In recent years, consumers have been buying more and more goods from outlet malls, dollar stores and online retailers. By no small coincidence, over the same time period traditional shopping malls ... How About Gardening or Golfing at the Mall ? Cleveland's Galleria serves as poster child for struggling malls

Chicago's Block 37 shopping mall gets new owner Crain's Chicago Business (blog) CIM Group has agreed to buy the 305000-square-foot shopping center from Bank of America Corp., which foreclosed on the property last year, according to people familiar with the transaction. The acquisition, expected to close as soon as this week, ...