The International Council of Shopping Centers raised its forecast for the November-December period to 3.5-4%, up a half a percentage point, after better-than-expected retail sales in November.
Comparisons will not be as impressive as the 3.7% overall number for February reported by the International Council of Shopping Centers.
The vacancy rate for major shopping centers in Santa Clara County has dropped to 5.5% this year from 6.7% in 2010 and 7.1% in 2009, according to estimates by Terranomics, a retail research arm of commercial real-estate concern Cassidy Turley Inc.
Over the past ten years mall REITs have turned in an annualized 17% versus 16% for office and industrial properties, 14% for strip shopping centers and 12% for apartments, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
Early reports from agencies like the International Council of Shopping Centers put overall sales something like 4 percent for the season.
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The idea of providing an all-day experience comes from the U.S., where it isn't unusual for shopping centers to include doctor and dentist offices as well as food halls and entertainment options to complement the usual range of clothing and other retail stores.
DDR, which owns hundreds of shopping centers across the country, launched a mobile program called ValuText at 27 of its retail centers for this holiday season.
There, the High Court decided that government could condemn private property for the public good even if entrepreneurs sought to build hotels and shopping centers.
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The final quarter of the year is traditionally a busy one for consumers as mobs head to shopping centers and log into online accounts in order to fulfill holiday wish lists.
The pilot Reimagine unit will be unveiled at a shopping center in Arlington, Texas, on Nov. 30 with plans for other units to be placed in Kroger-anchored shopping centers around the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Many of the squares for the game's upmarket locations feature sponsorship from banks, radio stations and shopping centers.
Moe, Larry and Curley form a partnership to develop shopping centers with the idea that the centers will be held for a considerable period.
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The effects can be seen everywhere: in new shopping centers and restaurant complexes, in building sites, in advertisements for the latest laptops and iPods.
Drive almost anywhere in the state and you see roads, farms, shopping centers, and bridges named for people who came from Armenia, Japan, China, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain or Iran.
While the U.S. trends toward big-box retail and mixed-use centers for shopping and living, Asia is putting up bigger, glitzier malls than ever.
With few new shopping centers being built in the U.S., most expanding retailers must wait for space to become available in existing malls.
La Salada became a place for informal factories and commerce, with exports to the whole continent, and overall billing larger than that of the major shopping centers in Buenos Aires.
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