The Phoenix developer paired regional malls with smaller shopping villages, then sold to Macerich for $1.475 billion. Its properties offer a useful lesson in what survives when shopping habits change.
New shopping centers are expensive, slow and unfashionable. SimonCRE's answer is a short ownership clock, municipal dealmaking and the stubborn belief that a good Target can still rearrange a town.
While the internet was busy declaring the shopping center dead, a West Palm Beach firm quietly assembled 14 million square feet of the stuff - and keeps selling it at a profit.