| Sam's Club Once-in-a-Lifetime Packages Sell in Less Than 24 Hours
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Thanksgiving is still two weeks away ... but four people have already got a big head start on their holiday shopping, with the help of the Sam's Club Once-in-a-Lifetime packages! This year, Sam's Club, the membership warehouse club, offered four unique Once-in-a-Lifetime gift packages, and less than 24 hours after being made available online, all packages have sold. The four packages included a 2007 Hybrid Technologies Lithium-powered Smart Car, coupled with a behind-the-scenes VIP trip for four to NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a shuttle launch; an exclusive, all-access trip to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games from Coca-Cola(R); the ultimate NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race(TM) experience; and a visit with venerable Southern cook Paula Deen, in Savannah, Ga.
Macerich Debuts SanTan Village
PHOENIX, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The centerpiece of a flourishing retail corridor emerged today with the official Grand Opening of SanTan Village -- a new super-regional shopping center at the core of a 500-acre, mixed-use development. SanTan Village, an open-air hybrid lifestyle center, spans 1.2 million square feet of gross leasable area. It sits at the center of an integrated project that, upon build out, will encompass 3 million square feet of retail, restaurants, entertainment, office space, residential and hotel uses. This retail destination is strategically situated in one of the nation's fastest-growing areas in Gilbert, Ariz., just southeast of metropolitan Phoenix. This innovative development offers an unparalleled design and blends the best elements of a lifestyle center with traditional department stores, approximately 130 specialty shops and restaurants, a multiplex theater, an enclosed food court, large-format users and pedestrian-only areas balanced by roadways and curbside parking for shoppers.
Calif. high court reaffirms right to protest at malls
SAN FRANCISCO Shopping malls can't stop protesters from calling for boycotts of their stores, even when they're on mall property, the California Supreme Court has ruled. In a 4-3 decision, the justices ruled that California's free-speech protections extend to demonstrators who set up inside shopping centers and urge customers not to shop there. The Dec. 24 ruling in Fashion Valley Mall, LLC v. National Labor Relations Board upholds a 1979 state Supreme Court decision Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center that found shopping malls are public forums in which people's free-speech rights are protected by the California Constitution. The case ruled on this week stems from a 1998 incident at the Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego in which members of a labor union from the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper were forced out for distributing leaflets urging the boycott of the Robinsons-May store, one of the mall's tenants.
Questions surround S. Phila. complex plan
The developers are calling it Philly Live! Between the exclamation point and the artists' glitzy renderings, it is hard not to get excited. But if people were looking for details about the proposed retail and entertainment complex adjacent to the Wachovia Center, they were not released at a news conference yesterday. "The only definite decision that is being proposed is that we are going to make Philly Live! a truly spectacular experience - a great place for shopping, dining, entertainment and gathering with friends," said Ed Snider, chairman of Comcast Spectacor and one of the two private developers behind the project. David Cordish, a Baltimore developer whose company specializes in such complexes, called the South Philadelphia site "probably the best I have ever seen for one of our projects." With Philly Live! surrounded by the Wachovia Center, Lincoln Financial Field, Citizens Bank Park, and possibly the Spectrum, Snider and Cordish conjured images of upscale stores filled with shoppers - some going to or from ball games, some not.
After hours of waiting in lines, deal-seekers swarm stores
Bargain hunters wait for the stores at the Tanger Outlets in Rehoboth Beach to open for "Midnight Madness," one of the state's first Black Friday events. Crowds and full parking lots continued throughout the day at the outlets and other shopping centers across Delaware. (Buy photo) Special to The News Journal/CHUCK SNYDER .
Urban Retail Properties, LLC Acquires Premier Shopping Destination ...
CHICAGO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Urban Retail Properties, LLC (www.urbanretail.com), proudly announces its acquisition of Oakland Mall, a premier shopping destination located in the vibrant community of Troy, Michigan. Boasting over 1.5 million square feet, Oakland Mall is home to Macy's, JCPenney and Sears and over 125 specialty stores, including Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret, Borders Books and Music and Steve and Barry's. This acquisition is a monumental play for Urban and its re-emergence as an owner/developer in the shopping center industry. Due to Urban's recent partnership with Principal Financial Group, who is advising a large institutional investor, it is able to move into an acquisition and development position and act with economic independence.
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