Retail Q&A with Sandy Sigal: Expect More Permanent Closures

Reopening Los Angeles County has gone from “swift and safe” to “stringent and slow.” A little over three months ago, county officials reopened retail businesses for in-store shopping at 50 percent capacity as they moved toward “sweeping new standards for swift and safe reopening.” But those businesses had …

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Retail Eviction Proceedings Pick Up as Economy Restarts

Proceedings for the eviction of retail tenants are picking up across the country as courts reopen and states’ moratoriums on evictions are expiring or getting curtailed as the economy reopens. In Miami, a luxury-shopping-center landlord began legal proceedings to evict Saks Fifth Avenue two weeks ago for nonpayment …

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Recognizable restaurant space is no more

New multi-tenant building going in where Sizzler, Hooters once stood. IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED—A 35-year-old building (shown below last year) in front of Janss Marketplace, home to multiple restaurant ventures over the years—most notably Hooters and Sizzler—was demolished last week to make way for a new …

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Dunkin’ to shutter 800 US locations

The coffee and doughnut chain has largely kept up with rent payments during the pandemic. America will soon have to run on 800 fewer Dunkin’ Donuts. The retailer, one of the largest coffee and doughnut chains in the world, is permanently closing 8 percent of its U.S. locations, according …

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When Tenants Won’t Help Themselves during the Covid-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent widespread orders to close theaters, retailers and restaurants – or severely restrict their operations – are forcing landlords and tenants to the negotiating table to figure out a way to survive. In many cases, the parties are striking agreements that generally provide …

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Retail Carnage Deepens as Pandemic’s Impact Exceeds Forecasts

The financial pain for U.S. retailers is worsening beyond what retail executives and analysts anticipated when the coronavirus began to spread, foreshadowing an unrelenting pace of store closures and bankruptcies. With a resurgence of coronavirus cases across much of the country, some companies that were relatively healthy before …

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