CBL and Associates Properties News

CBL & Associates Properties and The Benchmark Group officially announced several new retailers have signed lease for the Pavilion at Port Orange, including: Trendy Room, maurices, Rue21 and Sally Beauty Supply, which had not been previously reported.

That familiar holiday landscape, the shopping mall, might look a bit sparser nationwide this season after more than a year of consumer caution has taken its toll on retail stores.

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Notice something different at the Meridian Mall these days? The absence of Salvation Army bell ringers, for example? Over the weekend, Donna Segerlind wrote to say that members of her Okemos Kiwanis Club were scheduled to participate in the bell ringing for the Salvation Army's kettle drive at Meridian Mall over the weekend.

But these days, Jolly Old St. Nick is also embracing a new form of communication: cell phone texting.

Nordstrom Inc. will locate its first North Carolina Nordstrom Rack store at the Renaissance Center in Durham, the Seattle-based retail giant announced Monday.

"Development in general has stopped across the state. You only see a few developments of any type, specifically retail," said Tim Becker, director of the University of Florida's Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies.

Uncertainty over whether a homebuyer tax credit would be extended weighed down construction last month, a sign of how much the fledging recovery depends on government support.

IKEA CANTON - IKEA Social Initiative will donate $1 to UNICEF and Save the Children for each soft toy sold during some weeks leading up to the holiday season.

Texas-based Academy Sports + Outdoors is opening two stores in the Chattanooga area as the business grows in the Southeast.

CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. and The Benchmark Group on Thursday announced the start of construction on a new 74,000-square-foot Belk fashion department store at The Pavilion at Port Orange in Port Orange.

The Lakes Mall takes shape a year after construction plans were unveiled. The announcement 10 years ago that a 700,000-square-foot, three-anchor enclosed shopping mall would be built ended more than a decade of unrealized mall plans by other companies.

CBL & Associates Properties Inc. filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES is a self-managed and self-administered REIT that engages in the ownership, operation, marketing, management, leasing, expansion, development, redevelopment, acquisition and financing of regional malls and community neighborhood ...

The area's newest cinema, a 14-screen Hollywood Theaters outlet, will open in December at the Pavilion at Port Orange on Williamson Boulevard.

Two recent new developments in Mississippi and Pennsylvania opened in October to leased and committed levels in the mid-90 percent range, according to CBL.

Here one day and gone within months, companies large and small are opening more temporary storefronts in malls and strip centers.

No sooner did the $100 million Settlers Ridge shopping complex officially open Friday in Robinson than its developer announced it would begin building a phase two in 2010.

Share + Oct 30, 2009 1:33 pm US/Eastern ROBINSON TOWNSHIP Over the last 20 years, Robinson Township has changed dramatically with shopping centers, restaurants and other retail complexes seemingly popping up everywhere.

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Maximillian Black of Cleveland, finishes work on some drywall at the Barnes & Noble bookstore at Settlers Ridge shopping center in Robinson.