Insight Property Group intends to redevelop the now-shuttered Macy’s at 685 & 701 North Glebe Road in Arlington, VA into a 16-story building with 553 apartment units, a 38,400sf organic grocery store and 2,000sf of in-line retail space. Construction at … Continue reading →
According to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), a strip center is an “[a]ttached row of stores or service outlets managed as a coherent retail entity, with on-site parking usually located in front of the stores. Open canopies may … Continue reading →
On April 23, 2024, the Chicago-based operator of Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market announced the closure of all store locations amid plans to file for bankruptcy, according to Forbes. Chicago Reader writes that one thousand people were out of … Continue reading →
China’s overall coffee sales will rise at an 8.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during the 2022–27 time period, with hot coffee outpacing sales of ready-to-drink coffee drinks, according to GlobalData. Xiamen-based Luckin Coffee Inc. (“Luckin”) has tapped into … Continue reading →
The 12-story, 110-unit mixed-use (multifamily and retail) building in DC’s Union Market neighborhood sold at a foreclosure auction today for $38,300,000.00. Silver Spring-based HH Fund is the purchaser. PropertyQuest (DC Office of Planning) indicates the 2024 assessment for the property … Continue reading →
Japanese department store operator Takashimaya intends to expand its presence in Vietnam by opening a store in Hanoi, according to Inside Retail, which reports (citing Nikkei) that the company’s subsidiary, Toshin Development, has already started work on a mixed-use complex … Continue reading →
Perónism has ruled Argentina for over half the time since Juan Perón’s first presidency in the 1940s. To this day, Perónists are politically powerful, particularly in the trade unions and political classes. The Justicialist Party (“PJ”) has been the largest … Continue reading →
A 900-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper is planned for 5 World Trade Center (“5 WTC”) in lower Manhattan. Located at the southern end of the World Trade Center campus at 130 Liberty Street, the building is slated to have 190,000sf of office … Continue reading →
Tampa-based Outback Steakhouse has done extraordinarily well in Brazil. According to CNBC, in the first half of 2023, Brazilian sales rose by 61 percent, foot traffic increased by 42 percent and the average check increased by 19.2 percent compared with … Continue reading →
Google/Oxford Languages defines nearshoring the “practice of transferring a business operation to a nearby country, especially in preference to a more distant one.” High shipping rates, political tension between the U.S. and China, global geopolitical uncertainty and USMCA advantages have … Continue reading →