Recent Articles

• Rising to the Next Challenge in Retail’s Evolution in South Florida

  July 27, 2020

  ULI MEMBER–ONLY CONTENT: Despite the challenges facing the retail sector in 2020, South Florida’s Aventura Mall has continued to reinvent itself as a retail destination.  

• ULI Report Forecasts COVID-19 to Accelerate the Restructuring of Europe’s Retail Property Sector

  June 9, 2020

  A new update from ULI to the Reshaping Retail report, which was published earlier this year prior to the coronavirus pandemic taking hold across Europe, forecasts that the impact of COVID-19 will accelerate the restructuring of the retail property sector, particularly in the United Kingdom. The need for stable cash flows has been identified as the main overall trigger point needed to spur the investment market.

• Drawing High-End Consumers Back to Mixed-Use Retail

  May 27, 2020

  In a discussion of the ongoing transformation of U.S. retail, panelists participating in the 2020 ULI Spring Meeting Webinar Series agreed that the authenticity, differentiation, and transparency creating a sense of place in mixed-use retail spaces are likely to be what consumers seek in the future. Single-use spaces are about convenience, but that is only half of what consumers say they are looking for.

• Reshaping Europe’s Retail in an Age of E-Commerce

  March 25, 2020

  A timely report by ULI Europe sets out the potential triggers for the required restructuring of Europe’s retail real estate sector.

• Tenant Curation Leads to Revived St. Petersburg, Florida, Retail District

  March 23, 2020

  At a ULI Central Florida event, panelists discussed their strategies for turning around a underperforming retail districts in nearby St. Petersburg, largely through the curation of a more specific tenant mix.

• Data-Driven Physical Real Estate Still Wins with China’s Retail Consumers

  January 3, 2020

  When e-commerce first became entrenched in China, it seemed to sound the death knell for traditional retail. Sporting venues and other cultural attractions are helping bring foot traffic to the experiential retail of the future, said panelists at a ULI event in Shanghai.

• How Mall Developers in Asia Are Using Data to Drive Higher Rents and Revenue

  December 13, 2019

  Singapore-based developer CapitaLand is harvesting data to boost the revenues of its retail tenants and to help it locate future malls. Speaking at the ULI Asia Pacific Convivium, Chris Chong, managing director at CapitaLand Retail, said that the company uses data to boost both footfall and spending for tenants in its malls, which will ultimately benefit the landlord.

• Three Trends Shaping Retail’s Great Transformation

  September 3, 2019

  We are long past the point of discussing how technology has interrupted our lives and changed our perspective of the world. We are now in the post-disruption era, and in many sectors including retail, a new normal is emerging. At the same time, we are finally at a place where we can connect the dots to understand how retail is evolving—more efficient through technology and more engagement-focused through experience. The biggest idea driving the newest and most successful retail strategies is wrapped around how we value things—especially time.

• Grasping at Magic

  May 24, 2019

  A lot of thought and hard work go into making a place look like it could not have appeared anywhere else.