NetworkComputing.com
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
Good public space can make good retail
Greater Greater Washington
Or the newly-completed United Therapeutics headquarters, which has several empty retail spaces at the intersection of Cameron and Spring Streets. Around the corner … Why aren’t these spaces filled with successful shops and restaurants? Retailers in …read more 
Burgers, chocolate, boxes fill retail space
Orlando Sentinel
About 6.9 percent of the metro area’s retail was vacant in the April-through-June period, compared with 8.1 percent overall for the state’s top six metropolitan areas. Jacksonville had the highest vacancy rate, 11 percent; Miami had the lowest, 5.3 …read more 
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 
Commercial real estate slowly improving
phillyBurbs.com
Another commercial real estate company, Mack-Cali Realty Corp. of Edison, … it would take some new ideas on what it will take to turn around that sector….read more 
Flats plans for empty office and retail space
Get Surrey
Flats plans for empty office and retail space. By James Chapple August 03, 2012. A SPATE of planning applications seeking to convert office and retail space into new homes across Surrey Heath has been welcomed by the chairman of the Camberley Society….read more 
Hilton seeks to lease out commercial spaces
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Tagged: Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort. DAYTONA BEACH — The Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, the Volusia-Flagler area’s largest hotel, rarely has problems filling a majority of its 744 rooms. However, even with the high volume of guests — the room occupancy rate in July was 85 percent — most of the hotel’s commercial shop spaces have stood vacant for long periods of time. Seeking to rectify the matter, the hotel’s new general manager, Jason Reader, has decided to enlist professional help….read more 
How to fill an empty shopping center – Crain’s Chicago Business
After sitting on vacant retail properties for years, owners are striking deals with … The turn to alternative tenants is born of a need to fill space that dots …read more… 
CBRE Group report: Fewer empty retail big boxes are on the market in Dallas
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)
Eight of the formerly vacant D-FW Borders Books locations have been rented. (DMN files). Strong leasing in the North Texas shopping center market has filled up millions of square feet of empty big box retail space left vacant when the economy went kerplunk…read more 