The retail real estate industry will face another slow growth year in 2011, though the pace of store openings will gradually improve throughout the coming months, industry insiders predict. Given the current brisk pace of holiday sales and availability of vacant storefronts at affordable rents, retailers with cash in their coffers will step up […]
LEXINGTON and MEDFORD, Mass.—Bierbrier Development Inc., a developer and owner of shopping centers in Eastern Massachusetts, today announced it has renewed a 5,000-square-foot retail lease with Men’s Wearhouse at Wellington Circle Plaza in Medford, Mass. Men’s Wearhouse is one of North America’s largest specialty retailers of men’s apparel with 1,239 stores. Casey Piche, Vice President […]
ARLINGTON, MA—Officials from Bierbrier Development Inc., a developer and owner of urban shopping centers in Eastern Massachusetts, joined representatives from the town of Arlington, local business leaders and tenants to celebrate the grand opening of the 9,000-square-foot addition to the existing Arlington Village Shops shopping center in Arlington, MA. “We’re very excited to have not […]
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Best Buy Co. Inc. said Friday that it’s rolled out health and fitness devices to about 600 Best Buy stores across the country, as well as online at Bestbuy.com. Richfield-based Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) has been offering the products at 40 stores for the past year as part of a pilot program. The health and fitness […]
Purchase this photo Wicked Local staff photo by David Gordon Voltage Coffee owner Lucy Valena stops for a photo in her new shop on Thursday morning, November 18, 2010. In science- and research-driven Kendall Square, Lucy Valena wanted to create an “art portal in a science space.” With the idea of bringing quality […]
Two local properties — 38 Chauncy St. in Boston and the Fresh Pond Shopping Center in Cambridge — are having markedly different effects on a $780 million portfolio of mortgage securities packaged and sold by GE Commercial Mortgage Corp. in 2002. The local office and retail properties were highlighted in a recent Moody’s Investors Service […]
Restaurants — even the nonchain variety — have become prized tennants for many shopping center operators. As the retail real estate industry transforms in the wake of the recession, mall and shopping center owners are building relationships with the kinds of tenants they might have ignored 5 or 10 years ago. BUILT-IN FANS: Michal Holleb […]
Best Buy Co. Inc. is offering the iPhone 3GS for free on Friday, breaking new ground in discounting of Apple Inc. products. It’s not the latest version of the popular smartphone and it doesn’t have enough storage at eight gigabits for those who want to load up a lot of pictures and songs. The deal […]
Moe’s Southwest Grill has announced plans to expand locally. Moe’s is adding nine new locations to its existing five in the Greater Boston area. Paul Damico, President of Moe’s Southwest Grill, said in a written statement that the expansion will create at least 25 jobs at each new location and drive much-needed traffic to neighboring […]
