Retail
Our retail centers leverage the principles of placemaking, creating destinations that encourage people to gather, socialize, and experience all that the community has to offer. Working with developers, businesses, and stakeholders, we focus on the holistic customer experience to establish authentic, engaging places that encourage community and commerce.
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by Building Design+Construction
Gensler, Arcadis North America, Core States Group, MG2, WD Partners, and Nelson Worldwide top BD+C's ranking of the nation's largest retail sector architecture and architecture engineering (AE) firms for 2024, as reported in the 2024 Giants 400 Report. Note: This ranking factors revenue for all retail buildings work, including big box stores, cineplexes, entertainment centers, malls, restaurants, strip centers, and theme parks.
by Steven Sharp | Urbanize LA
A September 19th ceremony in Inglewood showcased the debut of the Shops at Hollywood Park, the retail core of the nearly 300-acre development centered on SoFi Stadium. The first phase of the retail project, which sits near the intersection of Prairie Avenue and Century Boulevard, includes space for 390,000 square feet of shops and restaurants. Announced tenants include the Cinépolis theater chain, Iconix Fitness, experiential venue Cosm, JD Sports, and Residency Arts Gallery.
by Nellie Day | Shopping Center Business
It's a fact of life that online shopping and the omnichannel approach have altered the way people shop. They've also altered the function of today's shopping centers. So has COVID. What was once a place for transactions has now become a place for connection, escape, and the ability to recharge.
by Madalina Pojoga | Commercial Property Executive
In Henderson, Nev., some 16 miles southeast of Las Vegas, a joint venture is investing $30 million in redeveloping a former 100,000-square-foot, two-building office campus into an open-air retail center. And many could see this office-to-retail conversion as a bold move considering the retail industry has been facing its own set of challenges over the past decade. But the team behind the project is banking on local metrics and the fact that residents don’t have access to similar centers in the immediate area.
by Joe Gose | NY Times
Shopping center landlords have found themselves in a wholly unfamiliar position: For the first time in 20 years, demand for retail space outstrips supply. That demand has soared recently and, after years of muted construction and a purge of weak-performing properties, met a retail market with less available space. Properties that survived the purge signed up tenants that would draw more shoppers and give them more reason to linger.
by Jennifer Van Grove | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has started construction on an all-new wing of luxury shops and destination eateries designed to further elevate the status of its flagship Westfield UTC property in University City. Thursday, the French firm announced the expansion project, which will introduce 50,000 square feet of space spread across two buildings with nine storefronts and two restaurants on the lot of the original Nordstrom box.