LAS VEGAS—CREC VP Rafael Romero tells GlobeSt.com about how chef-driven restaurants are driving heavy traffic to shopping centers and why regional malls will not go quietly into the night in this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b> article on the hottest retail topics from this year's big event.

HOUSTON—With development activity, combined with a strengthening economy, a growing urban population and culinary/entertainment destination status, Houston has been transformed since renewal began in the 1990s.

NEW YORK CITY—Rising mortgage rates “could deter more people from selling and keep pressure on inventories and prices,” says David M. Blitzer at S&P Dow Jones Indices.

LOS ANGELES—A CBRE report suggests the retail apocalypse is fake news, so we sat down with Cody Chiarella to find out what demand is really like for brick-and-mortar retail in the ecommerce world.