FEATURES
Web Sites
The outlet industry’s real estate consultants
find their Web pages to be an inexpensive way
to spread the word. VRN looks at five consultants
using the Web to their best advantage.
Outlet Center Heroes
Almost every outlet center is a willing partner in
its community’s charitable and civic programs,
recognizing that good will and fellowship go a
long way in the consumer’s mind. VRN features a
few of these outlet center heroes.
Going Green
It was bound to happen in the independentspirited,
environment-conscious Green
Mountain State. EuroWest Properties’ Essex
Shoppes & Cinema has gone green – incorporating
techniques that range from the use
of energy-efficient light bulbs to lowering the
thermostat – and earned an official State of
Vermont designation to prove and promote it.
DEPARTMENTS
News Up Front
The world’s largest outlet-center owner told
analysts in January that 2009 will see pressure
put on occupancy, but there are still
chains that want to grow; the former Belz
outlet mall in Las Vegas has won expansion
approval; a new outlet-center site in Texas
has a great site, a new joint-venture partner,
commitments from 70 tenants, and a rotten
economy.
