PREIT's occupancy dropped to 84.5% during its first quarter, down from 88.3% in the same period in 2008. Meanwhile, sales per square foot fell to $340 from $356.
"Many of the retailers in our portfolio are facing challenging times, and this is effecting our results," said Ronald Rubin, the company's chairman and chief executive officer. The company has given rent abatements on a "case-by-case basis" to struggling retailers, added Edward Glickman, PREIT's president and chief operating officer.
To more consumers from a regional area, PREIT is renovating some of its key malls. Today it is opening a lifestyle wing at Plymouth Meeting [PA] Mall, with Ann Taylor Loft, Chico's, Coldwater Creek and other tenants. In March it completed a redesign of Cherry Hill [NJ] Mall, adding a Nordstrom and other tenants.
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