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announced plans to open its first Nordstrom Rack in North Carolina. The new 33,000-square-foot store will be located at Renaissance Center in Durham. The store is expected to open in fall 2010.

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Blacks CVA approved

News | www.retail-week.com | 5 hours 20 minutes ago

Blacks Leisure’s Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) has been approved by 98% of its landlords at a creditors meeting.

http://www.retail-week.com/property/blacks-cva-approved/5008272.article?referrer=RSS

PREIT's Holiday Sweepstakes Gives Lucky Shoppers a Chance to Win $25,000, Just in Time for

Press Release | www.zibb.com | 5 hours 44 minutes ago

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) has announced its Holiday '09 Unwrapped campaign. The campaign, which includes a $25,000 Sweepstakes and value-added shopping promotions, is designed to stimulate shopping by providing consumers with excitement, unexpected value, and engagement,

http://www.zibb.com/article/5686755/PREIT+s+Holiday+Sweepstakes+Gives+Lucky+Shoppers+a+Chance+to+Win+Just+in+Time+for+Gift+Giving

Economy steers Kansas City-area development to established retail centers

News | kansascity.bizjournals.com | 13 hours 35 minutes ago

With continuing vacancy increases, rent decreases and capital constraints in store for the retail industry, developers and brokers are shifting their focus from new suburban-fringe projects to established shopping centers. Released Nov.

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Park Ave. firm to buy Atlanta retail centers

News | atlanta.bizjournals.com | 13 hours 35 minutes ago

A Park Avenue real estate firm is making its first entry into metro Atlanta, with plans to purchase up to 1 million square feet of grocery-anchored shopping centers both intown and in the suburbs. Rothenberg-Rosenfield Inc., housed at 505 Park Ave.

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North Dale Mabry Sweetbay shopping center sells

News | tampabay.bizjournals.com | 13 hours 35 minutes ago

TAMPA — The Sweetbay Shopping Center on North Dale Mabry Highway sold this month for $8.8 million — about $1.5 million less than it traded for in 2003.

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Empire Mall and Empire East; Sioux Falls, South Dakota | Labelscar: The Retail History Blog

News | www.labelscar.com | Nov 22, 2009

Empire Mall opened in 1975, with 47 stores and two anchors - Younkers and JCPenney. However, Empire was not the first enclosed mall in Sioux Falls - the 350,000 square foot Western Mall - anchored by Montgomery Ward, Brill's apparel, and Tempo supermarket - opened in 1968 just half a mile east of

http://www.labelscar.com/south-dakota/empire-mall

Best Buy store relocating to Glen Burnie shopping center

News | baltimore.bizjournals.com | Nov 20, 2009

The electronics retailer signed a lease this week for 40,000 square feet in the shopping center for 10 years with options to extend the lease, taking over the space from a Mars supermarket. Best Buy has 13 locations in Greater Baltimore. It's currently located in another retail center nearby.

http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2009/11/16/daily47.html?ana=from_rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+vertical_58+%2528Retailing+Industry+News%2529

General Growth, lenders agree on mall debt rework

News | fe8.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com | Nov 20, 2009

Mall operator General Growth Properties Inc., which filed the largest U.S. real estate bankruptcy case in history earlier this year, said Thursday its lenders have agreed to restructure some $8.9 billion in shopping mall mortgage loans.

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