ATLANTA—Retail is white hot in Miami and manyother areas of Florida—and a boom of outlet malldevelopment is underway. One of many examples is the Vero BeachOutlets, a 328,000-square-foot retail complex anchored by AnnTaylor, Banana Republic, J. Crew, Nike and Tommy Hilfiger in VeroBeach, FL.

GlobeSt.com caught up with Lori Kilberg andBenno Rothschild, partners with HartmonSimons, an Atlanta-based commercial real estate firm, toget their take on this trend in part one of this exclusiveinterview. Be sure to come back to this afternoon's Miami editionfor part two.

GlobeSt.com: When did the outlet-mall developmentboom really begin, and how were developers able to quickly assemblethe land needed for the projects?

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