Tilly’s has assumed the lease of a shuttered Payless Shoe Source at the Butler North section of the 267-acre mega-center operated by Butler Enterprises in Gainesville, Fla.

Rising costs and competition in the online marketplace, exacerbated by supply chain limitations, have unleashed waves of e-coms seeking out space in retail centers in Southern California.

Hamilton Quarter, a new project combining 250,000 sq. ft. of retail with 500,000 sq. ft. of medical and office space near the New Albany Business Park in Columbus, is welcoming a new raft of retailers.

Tanger Outlets recaptured almost 200,000 sq. ft. of retail space at its centers in 2019 due to bankruptcies and brand-wide restructurings.

Phillips Edison & Company has hired Kevin J. McCann as its new chief information officer, a role he served in at IRC Retail Centers since 2015.

There are big boxes, and then there are big, big boxes.

One of Connecticut’s most comprehensive health care networks, Hartford Health Care, has announced it would be leasing 40,700 sq. ft. of the former Sports Authority at North Haven Pavilion in North Haven.

Area15, set to open in Las Vegas in April, describes itself as an “edgy, interactive, trend-ahead mall and performance complex that blurs the line between fantasy and reality.”

Getting off the South Windsor exit of I-84, it’s clear you have landed in Retail Central in the eastern suburbs of Hartford.