Joe Gose

1 day ago | reit.com | Joe Gose

SHARE Weyerhaeuser (NYSE: WY) has come a long way since it was founded in 1900. From three employees and a small office in Tacoma, Washington, it has grown to become one of the largest sustainable forest products companies in the world. As it celebrates its 125th anniversary this year, Weyerhaeuser is building on that long legacy and looking ahead to the next stage of its evolving story.

3 days ago | icsc.com | Joe Gose

Walmart recently added 5,000 square feet to a Huntsville, Alabama, store to serve online grocery shoppers. The extension looks perfectly ordinary: a box of 16-foot walls abutting the existing store with the word “Pickup” and an arrow painted near the entryway. But the addition represents an achievement that borders on the extraordinary. Five workers raised the structure’s three walls in seven days thanks to 3D concrete printing, or 3DCP, technology.

2 weeks ago | icsc.com | Joe Gose

Anyone who has ordered food at the Dave’s Hot Chicken counter likely has meandered over to a plaque on the wall. As the history found there goes: In 2017, trained chef Dave Kopushyan and a couple of friends spent $900 to rent a pop-up shack in a parking lot in Los Angeles’ East Hollywood neighborhood. Hauling in a fryer and picnic tables, they cooked up a popular dish born in Nashville 80 years earlier. They relied on social media marketing and managed to pocket a few dollars each night.

3 weeks ago | icsc.com | Joe Gose

Amid tight space conditions and muted construction throughout much of the country, high demand for pad sites is delivering greater financial flexibility for shopping center developers and investors. Traditional pad site users are fueling the lion’s share of that demand. First and foremost are expansion-minded food-and-beverage brands, from fast food and boutique drive-thru coffee concepts to full-service dining operators, observers say.

1 month ago | icsc.com | Joe Gose

A decade ago, real estate developer Kushner Cos. began envisioning how it might redevelop the 1.6-million square foot Monmouth Mall, a 1960s-era shopping center in Eatontown, New Jersey, that it had owned since 2002. Like many of its enclosed brethren across the U.S., the property was losing relevance amid changing shopper tastes despite being surrounded by affluent enclaves like Rumson, Colts Neck and Shrewsbury. Today, Kushner Cos.