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Sears hopes to fill its empty stores with servers. Will the troubled retailer forge a new path for companies … But now Sears has cooked up a plan to make use of all that empty retail space: turn it into data centers. If it works, it might well point …
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Sears’ Data Center Strategy: A Model For Unused Properties?
Office renovations are common in a down economy
Big-box retail space: Doctor is in; retail is out
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The recession left a glut of empty big-box retail space, and medical clinics are moving in. hide … The interior is filled with nature photographs and outdoor scenes taken at nearby Como Park, Cathedral Hill and other St. Paul neighborhoods. The walls …read more 
Officials seek alternatives to fill city’s empty retail space
Lexington Dispatch
Lexington businesses and city officials have found large retail space can be used for several smaller businesses or completely different types of retailers. The old Kmart property on Talbert Boulevard is now Roses, Save-A-Lot and the family store of …read more
Top Tips to Tackle Vacant Office Space
ABCN’s Officing Today
Combat your empty office space problem with some of these innovative ideas. … The commercial property industry has had its fair share of ups and downs during … It allows you to fill your space with creative souls, reap their good ideas and …read more 
Retail, office complex Warehouse Row fills space in latest incarnation
Chattanooga Times Free Press
By 2006, fewer than half of its 23 tenants were retail establishments. The north building’s 175000 square feet of office space lay completely empty, and most of the retail tenants had fled by the time that Atlanta-based Jamestown bought the building…read more 
How Popularise brought crowdsourcing to DC’s commercial real estate market
Washington Post
In December the brothers created Popularise, a Web site that allows the public to vote on tenants for empty retail spaces — some of which their WestMill Capital investment firm own and some of which belong to other developers….read more 
ViaWest Signs Lease on North Las Vegas Facility for Its New Reliable and …
MarketWatch (press release)
ViaWest, one of the largest privately-held data center, cloud computing and managed services providers in North America, announces today it has completed a lease agreement on a 110000 square foot facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada, which will house …read more 
US Retailers Rethink Stores to Lure Customers
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity finds a home in the suburbs
In weed-plagued suburbs left unfinished by developers, Habitat for Humanity is helping to fill the gaps—changing neighbors’ NIMBY attitudes to sighs of relief. Bob Shaw of Pioneer Press reports on the non-profit builder’s new role as savior of the suburbs. Read More …