Summaries for: Retail
National Real Estate Investor on Battling Regional Mall REITS
In retail markets saturated with fortress malls and lifestyle centers, outlet centers represent one of the last opportunities for ground-up construction. While some rival regional mall REITS compete ferociously for limited space, others are partnering to build a joint development rather than spending money fighting each other, the National Real Estate Investor reports.
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NY Times Exposes Wal-Mart’s Bribes for Building Permits
Systemic bribery program resulted in expedited permits and rapid market expansion in Mexico.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country instead of broadening the probe, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
The newspaper reported that ...
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Saint Consulting Group Wins Federal Court Case
Judge Affirms First Amendment Rights to Oppose Development Projects
A federal court has affirmed the right of real estate project opponents to actively oppose government permits, even when opponents are business competitors and even when their opposition is not publicly announced.
In a decision filed March 27, the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois dismissed all claims ...
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Grist Green Series Takes Hard Look at Walmart Sustainability Claims
A community-based blog is taking what it calls a hard look at Walmart's environmental impact and its sustainability claims. Hometown Advantage Bulletin, published by the New Rules Project, says it has begun a new series that will report what Walmart is and isn't doing in these policy areas, as well as offering an analysis of ...
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More Press on Saint Index: Wind Power, Gender and Age Gaps in NIMBYism
The 2011 Saint Index survey has generated extensive coverage across the national press and trade and architecture journals with its sixth annual report on American attitudes towards large-scale development and NIMBYism in times of economic hardship. The press coverage has delved into gender demographics with women more opposed than men to most types of development, ...
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Saint Index in New York Times: In NIMBY Sentiments A Gender Divide
The Saint Index has found that women are far more likely than men to fight proposals to build new power plants,shopping malls and big-box stores, Felicity Barringer has written in The New York Times Green blog about energy and the environment. The national survey, conducted by The Saint Consulting Group, found that support for local projects ...
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New Book on Rise and Fall of A&P has Lessons for Today’s Grocery Store Wars
By P. Michael Saint, Chairman and CEO, The Saint Consulting Group In 1930 the largest retailer in the world was A&P with sales of over $1 billion a year, more than double the size of the next largest retailer - Sears. In 1951, the largest retailer with sales of over $3.3 billion was still A&P ...
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Entitlement Strategy is Essential to Securing Value Creation Opportunities
By Jay Vincent, Senior Vice President for Business Development, The Saint Consulting Group
After reviewing a transcript from a publicly traded real estate company’s Q2 earnings call recently, I was reminded how critical political due diligence is to important real estate projects. In today’s commercial real estate market, many firms aim to redevelop properties in order ...
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Borders’ Liquidation: Painful For More Than Just Booklovers
by Seth Cargiuolo
Chief Knowledge Officer
The Saint Consulting Group
Today, Retail Traffic
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The Selling of Walmart – DC City Paper Quotes Patrick Fox
The most sophisticated retailer in the world brought its A-Game to Washington, D.C., and probably didn't need to, writes Lydia DePillis in Washington City Paper.
The alternative weekly ran a cover story on Walmart's long-awaited move into the nation's capital last week entitled, "The Selling of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Retailer Won Over DC Without ...
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