The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has honored Liberty Center with the highest recognition that a retail center can receive in design and development with a 2017 new construction U.S. Design & Development Award.

For shoppers, this city of 860,000 smack in the middle of a swing state, can feel like an alternate reality, a place where up is down and down is up. Frumpy department stores feature personal shopping services and boutique wellness amenities. Workaday grocery stores like Kroger offer exotic fruits and freshly baked artisan breads.

Easton Town Center will get another first-in-Ohio store when Legoland Discovery Center opens at the lifestyle center in fall 2018.

The 36,000-square-foot, $10 million educational play center will be the 11th such store in North America and the 22nd in the world.

Award-winning Columbus, Ohio center just keeps getting better By Randall Shearin, Shopping Center Business At a time when there is more pressure on the physical retail environment than ever before, it seems only fitting that one of the best at creating “experiences” and curating “uses” continues to double down, evolve and get better and better. By…

Tavistock Development Company, a diversified real estate firm owned by Tavistock Group, announced today that Hoar Construction has been selected as the Preconstruction Program Manager and Master General Contractor for the next phase of development of the Lake Nona Town Center which will include a thoughtful collection of more than one million square feet of retail, restaurant, entertainment, office and hospitality uses.

More than 50,000 sq. ft. of new shopping opportunities will soon be presented to shoppers at Ohio’s most popular retail destination.

GlobeSt.com caught up with retail expert Anne Mastin, EVP of retail real estate at Steiner + Associates at the 2017 RECon, to talk about how retail is no longer about just filling a box and what she thinks the future will look like.

Steiner and Tavistock unveiled the Lake Nona Town Center model to the more than 40,000 ICSC RECon attendees on Monday, May 22 in Las Vegas.

The days of the traditional shopping mall are behind us, making way for lifestyle and entertainment options where traditional big-box anchor tenants once stood.

For anyone in the industry, it’s impossible to avoid the topic of online sales and the “dramatic” impact of the internet on traditional brick-and-mortar retail. Many retailers are clearly worried, and others are uncertain about how they should respond to the growth of online retail.