CHICAGO—Built in 1951, Sunset Ridge is in the middle of the affluent North Shore, a location that few MHC communities in the US can match.

NEW YORK CITY—From real estate asset strategy to whether Millennials require special treatment, major hotel industry executives sound off in this second part of a GlobeSt.com series on last week's NYU hotel conference.

Walmart, the retail behemoth with a market cap of $238 billion, is mixing things up. For decades, the company's standard policy of building big-box stores aimed at price conscious working-class customers was resoundingly successful. However, it is increasingly clear simply adding large stores won't be enough to increase, or even maintain, its level of profitability. …