"Some of the major challenges affecting retailers today include the need to balance brand-recognition and an exciting ambiance for clients with a flexible, cost effective, easily maintainable space, as well as expediting construction in a timely manner to meet seasonal buying cycles and market fluctuations. Bona Arch + Design, PC has worked with the foremost retail consulting experts in the industry, including architects, interior design, construction managers, and leading merchandisers to accelerate projects from planning through construction phase." -Bona Arch + Design, PC
By Andria Cheng, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. retailers posted their best October sales in more than a year, with sales up 2.2%, with discounters and department stores leading better-than-expected gains while teen retailers struggled. The numbers, tracked by Retail Metrics, showed retailers’ best month since April 2008 and compare to a 3.5% decline in October [...]
10/14/09 Disney Stores More Like Disney World By George Anderson The Walt Disney Company, with an assist from Steve Jobs and Apple’s retail operations group, is undertaking a major remodeling effort at its 340 Disney Store locations in the U.S. and Europe. The plan is to take some of excitement of the Magic Kingdom and transplant it into [...]
Architect Ken Yeang has been commissioned to design a 4,000-acre eco-city in the sea off the Shanghai coast. TR Hamzah and Yeang, the Malaysian sister company of Llewelyn Davies Yeang, is leading the design of the Shanghai Beach masterplan for an unnamed Malaysian client. The scheme, which is to be sited on reclaimed tidal flats, [...]
