This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Real Estate/Development

Sep. 11, 2014

Big box closures cause conundrum for real estate lawyers

As economic factors and consumer choices spell doom for many big box locations, landlords and lawyers must consider carving up the facilities even as they face a growing set of challenges.


By Alex Shively


Daily Journal Staff Writer


As the retail industry transforms, real estate lawyers in California are facing a growing number of empty big-box stores. As Internet retailers gain prominence and consumer tastes change, many landlords of large retail centers, who depend on their largest tenants to attract consumer activity to their premises, are finding themselves in the dilemma of having to acquire new tenants for the large vacated facilitie...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up