Will E-Commerce Kill the Retail Stars?

MIAMI—Kimco Realty's CFO, Glenn Cohen, tells GlobeSt.com's Jennifer LeClaire what he sees as the biggest challenges for retailers in 2013.

By Jennifer LeClaire | Updated on April 22, 2013

MIAMI—The International Council of Shopping Center‘s convention coming to Las Vegas in less than a month, we decided to sit down with one an executive from one of the leading real estate investment trusts in the shopping center space to discuss the state of the industry. We caught up with Glenn Cohen, CFO of Kimco Realty, to get his take on the biggest challenges for retailers in 2013. In part one of this exclusive interview, he also discussed his views on the economy as it relates to commercial real estate and his predictions for the pace and depth of recovery in 2013.

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