Here are news and notes from around the Web today.
- Starbucks tries supermarket coupons to boost sales.
- Filene’s Basement’s new owner has upscale aspirations.
- Developer throws out four ideas as ways to revive dormant Filene’s redevelopment.
- Barron’s looks at commercial real estate’s outlook.
- Wachovia’s commercial real estate debt could pinch Wells Fargo.
- Owners of the Summit Park Mall in Buffalo filed for bankruptcy.
- Barneys to close two stores.
- Some of General Growth Properties’ lenders have issues and raise concerns about the expansion of its bankruptcy filing.


Changing the Format of the Blog
by David Bodamer May 6th, 2009
I’m toying with the format of the blog. Until now, many of the posts here have been links to single stories in which I’ve posted a handful of a paragraphs and a link back to the original story. But I think those kinds of posts are less interesting and I can accomplish the same thing through posting links to single stories to our Twitter feed. I’d like to turn the blog into something more analytical and provide commentary on stories. I’d also like to engage in more direct dialogue with readers of this blog.
So, what I’m going to do is post stories as I see them to Twitter and then post roundups of links to several stories at once to the blog once a day. Other posts here will include videos, Scribd documents, longer commentaries or posts with lots of links on a single topic–things that don’t make as much sense to post to Twitter. (For example, I’d like to do more posts like this one on store closures.)
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