NEW YORK CITY-A calendar shift especially hurt department-store sales, which fell 7% as a sector.

NEW YORK CITY-Of the 54 stores it is closing management says that about a dozen could house other Liz Claiborne concepts.

NEW YORK CITY- Times Square, 34th Street, Fifth Avenue and Soho are all seeing rising rents.

LAKE SUCCESS, NY-The disposition firm is disposing of locations in 39 states as a 'pruning' of the portfolio.

LAKE SUCCESS, NY-The disposition firm is disposing of locations in 39 states as a 'pruning' of the portfolio.

Is McDonald's going after Starbucks? According to a report earlier this week, McDonald's will install coffee bars helmed by baristas in its 14,000 locations nationwide. The move, already being tested in the Kansas City market, comes as Starbucks has significantly added to its food offerings, branching...

Welcome to Counter Culture, GlobeSt.com's new blog on the retail industry. The addition of this page to GlobeSt.com is actually the first in a series of new special-section pages that will roll into the lineup over the next few weeks and months. The impetus is internal as well as external. As we at Real...

Ian Ritter has written about the retail real estate industry since 2002. He is the editor of ALM Real Estate Media Group's GlobeSt.com, where he also covers the retail industry. Prior to that, he was the national online editor of Real Estate Media's GlobeSt.RETAIL website. Contact him at [email protected]....