Retail

Retail defeasance activity increases, while commercial real estate liquidity improves

Over the past year, real estate conditions, particularly in the lending market, continue to improve. As the lending markets continue to thaw...

Fantini & Gorga arranges $11.6 million for CVS and Walgreens Pharmacy

Fantini & Gorga has arranged an $11.6 million financing package for a free-standing CVS Pharmacy in Middleton, Mass. and a free-standing Wal...

The pulse of the retail market for the first quarter of 2013

National Perspective The first word in any discussion of retail is "consumer." The U.S. housing recovery has restored consumer confidence a...

New England Retail Properties represents over four million s/f of projects throughout the region

New England Retail Properties, Inc. was founded by Mark D'Addabbo, president and principal; and Matt Halprin, vice president and principal, ...

2013 - The year your brand goes digital! An investment that can increase your business dramatically

As we turn the corner into 2013, business owners just might find an investment in digital signage is the growth tool they've been looking fo...

Planning and zoning - change for the better? Rethinking the way municipalities regulate development

Perhaps one unrecognized benefit of the painfully slow economy is that some municipalities are re-thinking the way they regulate development...

Vapor intrusion: The roach motel of environmental regulation

Over the course of their careers, many real estate people have had "interactions" with environmental regulators. Depending upon the particul...

Company of the Month: Allen & Major Associates, Inc. - 40 years of staying viable as a business entity

By Anne Crooker, Allen & Major Associates, Inc. Four decades of staying viable as a business entity is worth celebrating. For Jim Major, pre...

Location, location, location...now what? Maximizing the potential of your center

Your assets are in tremendous locations. Demographics, ease of access, ample parking, complementing adjacent uses; all good. But you have to...

Santoro of Kinlin Grover Commercial Group completes $2.6 million sale

Nat Santoro, CCIM of Kinlin Grover Commercial Group has sold the Seatoller Plaza, a fully tenanted 14,058 s/f strip center with two duplexes...