A visit to shopping centers in Argentina gives us lessons we could translate to retail here in the United States.
These specialty leasing operations give a snapshot of what's selling in the United States.
These specialty leasing operations in Alberta, Canada and across the U.S. give a snapshot of what's selling in North America.
In the first of our regular series—Carts Across America—we take a closer look at a unique kind of specialty retail operation: one operated by the U.S. military at hundreds of shopping centers around the country and the world.
South Africa's creative use of market space holds some important lessons for American specialty leasing managers.
Dubai has some of the most extraordinary malls-and specialty retailers-in the world.
Talk about foot traffic! Would you like to operate in an open-air mall that attracts more than 18 million visitors a year? Or in a casino resort full of leisure visitors with an average income that tops $84,000? There's a reason-millions of reasons, in fact-that Las Vegas is home to some of the most successful specialty retail concepts in the country.
With a constant stream of new money and some of the biggest and blingy-est retail properties in the country, it's no wonder that when it comes to specialty retail, Vegas is hot--and getting hotter.
In the months after Katrina, the historic hurricane that made landfall in southeast Louisiana on August 29, 2005 packing sustained winds of 125 miles an hour, one local symbol, the fleur-de-lis, began popping up everywhere. A common feature in New Orleans art and architecture, and part of the official flag of New Orleans and the NFL's New Orleans Saints logo, the fleur-de-lis quickly became the city's ad-hoc symbol of hope for the future.
California shopping centers are the first to get it, test it, and if all goes well, launch it. For cutting-edge specialty retailers who want to soak up the sun-and the sales-southern California is the perfect place to be.