Instead, the home improvement giant is squeezing value from existing stores.

Help isn't automatic, but smart negotiators can keep hard-luck tenants out of court.

As vast numbers of U.S. retailers struggle with disappointing sales results month after month, the pressure has grown on landlords to grant relief. And after rebuffing such requests earlier in the year, many landlords are now reconsidering. The...

Linens ’n Things retail stores disappeared from shopping centers coast-to-coast after the chain went bankrupt and liquidated its stock, but the familiar brand is about to be revived after a joint venture bought the name for $1 million...

Whole Foods Market Inc.'s real estate cart continues to fill up...

From the street, the brand-new Point Berkeley in Duluth, Ga., a suburb north of Atlanta, looks like any other neighborhood shopping center. The 217,000 sq. ft. complex is anchored by an Asian supermarket, with a flurry of conventional retailers...

One of the defining trends of the retail industry in the past decade has been a great hollowing out of the middle. Mid-tier chains have struggled or disappeared entirely. Discounters — exemplified by Wal-Mart — have thrived at one end of the...