The US shopping center industry appears to be back in growth mode, based on comments from the two largest mall REITs, which reported their year-end results this week.

Attention, hhgregg landlords (and their furniture store tenants): you're getting a very different retailer than the one you originally signed.

I guess the Las Vegas comeback is a done deal if fashion retailers are coming to town – or actually to The Shops at Summerlin, the open-air “downtown” for Howard Hughes' masterplanned community in the Las Vegas Valley, the company announced.

To absolutely no one's surprise, JCPenney announced earlier this month that it will close “underperforming” 33 stores (while still opening one in Brooklyn) this year.

Baskin-Robbins is planning to grow, and it's looking to the U.S. military to help them do it.

Here we go again. “The Mall is Dead.” Again.

You know you're in a different retail world when a decent holiday sales season still leads to cost-cutting at Macy's.

The new year brings some good news from DDR Corp., which reported its results including a lot of buying and selling, its highest leased percentage in five years—and, yes, new development.