Every great development project starts with one thing: the right location.

A project may have incredible design and efficient elements, but in order for those elements to come to fruition and help...

Good design is good business. Former IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson believed that to be the case back in 1973 and the idea still rings true today. Good design has become a decisive advantage in...

Time is money. Time AND money are going to be important factors in deciding with whom, where, and when you develop your next real estate project.

Using a preferred developer, a partner in the...

No new commercial real estate development exists without some form of risk. There will always be issues that emerge and warning signs as to why you might want to avoid hiring a particular...

SimonCRE recently added a 1,488-square-foot retail building housing Italian restaurant Grazie to its real estate portfolio.

U.S. legislators are currently working to rollback some of the banking and lending restrictions put in place by the Dodd-Frank Act, passed in the wake of the financial crisis. Included in those...

We talked previously about why retailers need innovation and how it’s elevating those that use it into winners in the retail sector. And data is a differentiator between success and failure.

But...

As direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales have grown in the last several years, one of the biggest concerns for retailers is: who has the most sway over the customer?

The direct-to-consumer trend is...

Almost all municipal approval processes come with some twists, turns, unanticipated elements, and so on. The design review process, a method of ensuring quality of design for site plans, landscape...

I get by with a little help from my friends. That saying may become more and more prevalent in today’s ever-evolving world of retail.

Companies are now coming to the realization that in order to...