We’ve been talking to a lot of people so far at RECon, andbesides the lack of new development out there, everyone seemspositive about the state of the retail real estate sectornowadays.

The lack of new development isn’t even the case for somecompanies. Taubman Centers COO WilliamTaubman showed us some projects his firm is working on,and it has new developments in Puerto Rico; the St. Louis area;Sarasota, FL; and a few other locales. He told us that the mainsecret to getting these plans off the ground is that his peoplewere still trying to get development projects done when therecession was in full swing.

Discounter Tuesday Morning is mainly going intosecond-generation space, but their store-opening plans are prettygeared up. They are opening 75 stores a year for the next twoyears, Cory Bird, the chain’s director of realestate, told me.