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Real Estate Finance And Urban Retail Development

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
31 July 2003 - 2:00pm

Despite the prosperity of the 1990s, robust inner city retail development did not follow.

Despite the increase in real estate financing instruments over the past decade, inner city retail development has lagged in all but a select few cities. Indeed, even though new methods of financing have led to more liquid markets with potentially a broader appetite for risk, developers and their financial backers have continued to pursue projects primarily in top-tier cities and suburbs.

Full Story: Shopping the City: Real Estate Finance and Urban Retail Development
Source: The Brookings Institution, July 22, 2003
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