The 2017 Real Confidence Executive Index was recently released which shows that there is a positive outlook among US commercial real estate investors, especially in the areas of industrial, infrastructure, and multi-family assets. This index is based on how top executives from sixty-five commercial real estate investment companies would each allocate $1 billion of investments. It is a collaborative analysis done by the Altus Group, the National Association of Real Estate Inve

Many of us remember back-to-school shopping at Reading's VF Outlets in the 1980s, but did you know that VF Corporation was one of the earliest outlet operators, and opened the first outlet center in the country, in Reading, Pennsylvania? As Noble Prize winner Bob Dylan writes, "the times they are a-changing," and development changes, too. Outlet centers have sprung up in many areas now. The VF Outlets are no longer the draw they once were. With an eye toward the future of t