Chain Store Age | Al Urbanski, Editor & Manager Easton Town Center is located in Columbus, Ohio Why did Easton Town Center repeat as the No. 1 Retail Center Experience in 2022? Because it never stopped improving and adding things that make the 1,300-acre property more town than town center. Such as… • More art! The…

More than 30 million people visit it each year and spend more than a billion dollars there.

As Ohio enters summer free from most pandemic restrictions, our brilliant team has strategically thought of activations that will continue to differentiate Easton Town Center. From live concerts and yoga in the park to bar crawls, pedal wagons and scavenger hunts, we are making Easton Town Center the place to be in Columbus while the…

Retail sales were flat last month after a buoyant March, the Commerce Department said on Friday, as Americans continued spending their latest round of government stimulus checks.

As the Chief Development Officer at Steiner + Associates, ICSC CenterBuild covers exactly what I do on a day-to-day basis—that is, the planning, development, design and construction of shopping centers and retail-focused initiatives.

With the era of “more is more” behind us, retailers, developers, and CRE executives are facing profound questions around shrinking in order to grow or sustain.

The COVID-19 pandemic has either altered or sped up the course of the restaurant industry forever. It’s no secret that the pandemic hit full-service restaurants the hardest, with the majority struggling to adapt to extended periods of dining room closure, enhanced safety precautions, and new staffing struggles. In order to overcome these troubles, restaurants who managed to stay open were forced to pivot to delivery- and takeout-only for the first time

In early March 2020, the United States ceased non-essential business to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Over the past few years, you may have read that America’s malls are dying.

It’s May and this is the month of reckoning for retailers and their landlords.