NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -    National, regional and local economies were booming on the day in 2007 that the Peterson Cos, began construction of National Harbor, their 300 acre mixed use “community of tomorrow”, on the site of an abandoned quarry and ante-bellum plantation in Prince George’s...

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – La Palmera Mall Redevelopment –   In 2008 Padre Staples Mall in Corpus Christi, Texas was in trouble.  Built in the 1970’s it was tired and obsolete and loosing market share to competitors both locally and in Houston and San Antonio.  The size of the failing center...

Walnut Park, CA – La Alameda Shopping Center - One of the most positive developments of the real estate boom of the last decade was the movement of developers into neighborhoods that had previously been overlooked.  Many of these areas had been deemed to be unprofitable in the long term.  La Alameda...

Glendale, WI – Bayshore Town Center America has had a love affair with the small town for over 200 years.  Streets lined with friendly local stores, a lunch counter that feels like your kitchen, a quaint town square in which to watch your children graduate high school on a glorious June morning.  Sounds...

San Leandro, CA – Bayfair Center – It took guts and a good deal of confidence for MadisionMarquette to take on the aging and steadily declining Bayfair Mall in 2003.  The 820,000 square foot regional shopping center was originally built in 1957 and was starting to see an exodus of some of its...

PACOIMA, CA – Plaza Pacoima Industrial Past This recently unveiled shopping center is a redevelopment of the former Price Pfister plumbing fixtures manufacturing facility and is a prime example of urban renewal. In the 1950s Pacoima was a bedroom community for manufacturing centers in Los Angeles,...