Given the challenges of Covid, effectively managing the legal leasing process is more important now than ever. Enjoy this re-posting and stay tuned for our follow-up strategies for Covid-proofing the Black Box.

This panel kicked off Brooklyn Law School’s “Introduction to Sustainability and Future Cities Boot Camp,” and explored how landlords and tenants can partner to maximize sustainability.

Ellen Sinreich and ICSC + Legal Forum hosted a timely discussion about the challenges and opportunities of densifying shopping centers with medical, industrial, residential, and other non-retail uses.

While the recent UN Climate Conference (COP26) outcomes were disappointing in many respects, there were important breakthroughs that are likely to have a significant impact on the real estate industry.

Ellen Sinreich and ICSC’s Legal Forum hosted a webinar about how the ICSC’s Shopping Center Study Lease has been updated to meet post-Covid industry needs and concerns, including internet sales, kick-outs…

As we move through 2021, the office leasing market continues on its fitful journey from the 2020 Covid-induced standstill toward the equilibrium of a still-blurry new normal. The timing of the recovery…

Ellen Sinreich co-presented an advanced workshop at ICSC’s 2021 Law Conference exploring how the legal leasing process has changed as a result of the pandemic and last year’s episodes of civil unrest.

Ellen Sinreich co-hosted an advanced seminar at ICSC’s 2021 Law Conference about the costs and benefits of generating solar power at shopping centers, including best practices for structuring the landlord’s…

According to Placer.ai’s Apparel Quarterly Index 2021: Q2 visits to apparel stores increased 29.1% from Q1 to Q2 and 198.1% since last year, leaving a 6.7% gap when compared to 2019. The biggest winners were…

ICSC Legal Forum Founder Ellen Sinreich moderated this discussion with developers who reinvented a variety of malls throughout the United States. Focusing on the challenges and opportunities of two projects…

To ensure that post-Covid retail, office, and industrial leases are successfully completed, notwithstanding constantly evolving challenges in each of these market sectors, we’ve devised strategies for…

According to a recent report by Moody’s Analytics, office vacancy rates throughout the country will likely increase throughout 2021 and into 2022, when the national vacancy rate is expected to peak at…

Ellen Sinreich brought together a group of retail real estate professionals for an ICSC Legal Forum webinar addressing the likely ramifications of Covid on brick-and-mortar retail in 2021 and beyond.

As we look ahead to 2021 from our vantage point as commercial leasing attorneys, it’s clear the rules of the game are changing. Landlords and tenants nimble enough to adapt will enjoy significant advantage…

The conversion of a long-vacant office building in New Haven, Connecticut into a net-zero boutique hotel could be a harbinger of greater sustainability for the hospitality industry. The energy-efficient systems…

A recently published article in Shopping Centers Today features Legal Forum, a peer group within ICSC’s Virtual Community that was created to provide a virtual place and space for retail real estate professionals to come together in this…

Ellen Sinreich convened a group of bankruptcy experts for this ICSC Legal Forum webinar who discussed cash conservation strategies for retailer/debtors and landlord strategies for protecting their shopping centers during and after bankruptcy proceedings.

In the face of the sobering realities we’re confronting — a pandemic, shutdowns, governmental mandates, social distancing, and shifting consumer behavior — will your legal leasing process meet the challenges of a post-Covid world?

Ellen Sinreich hosted a group of shopping center owners, restaurateurs, and a lender for this ICSC Legal Forum webinar about how these parties can work together to help restaurants stay in business notwithstanding Covid.

An esteemed panel of speakers gathered for this inaugural ICSC Legal Forum webinar, which focused on updating retail leases to provide a more accurate road map for handling current brick-and-mortar retail issues.