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Sprouts Replaces 99 Cents Only at OC Center

NewMark Merrill Companies has signed Sprouts Farmers Market to a new lease for 25,860 square feet at Bristol Warner Village, an 80,865-square-foot retail center located at 2311 S. Bristol St. in Santa Ana. Sprouts replaces a 99 Cents Only store that closed in 2024. The new Sprouts …

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Case Study: Breathing New Life Into a Community Mainstay

In 2019, Stony Island Plaza in the South Shore area of Chicago was flailing. Storefronts were vacant, tenant turnover was high and deferred maintenance had significantly affected curb appeal. The situation was dire. But NewMark Merrill Companies recognized potential, and embarked on a mission to reconnect with …

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LA500 2025: Sandy Sigal

Founder, Chair, Chief Executive, President Newmark Merrill Sigal founded and currently serves as chair, chief executive and president of NewMark Merrill Cos., which has grown to become one of the fastest growing privately held developers and owners of shopping centers in California, Colorado and Illinois. Since the company’s …

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At ICSC Las Vegas, the resounding cry was ‘Tariffs-Schmariffs’

The Terrible Tariffs. That’s the hot topic looming over every big industrial trade show in the land this year. Yet neither developers nor retailers seemed overly steamed about it at last week’s ICSC show in Las Vegas. “Retailers, of course, have the tariffs on their minds, but what we’re …

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Tariff Talk Overheard at ICSC Las Vegas

Retail real estate experts shared takes on the new taxes on trade at CRE's biggest annual conference President Donald Trump's tariff policies and their potential consequences were unavoidable topics at ICSC in Las Vegas this year, due to their sheer scale and day-to-day variability. While many posited that tariffs …

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At ICSC, Retail Smiles Through Headache of Macro Uncertainties

Annual Vegas confab a mini escape from tariffs, interest rates, bankruptcies “Parties tell you the story,” said NewMark Merrill Companies founder and CEO Sandy Sigal as he held court at his event Monday night on the Las Vegas Strip. “Forget all the statistics and everything else. People are …

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