Columbia, Missouri is halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City right smack in the middle of the state. Home to the University of Missouri, staid insurance companies and medically focused biotech firms spun out of… Read More
The legal cannabis business is opening up new doors for recreation as well as the healthcare industry. Just below the retail radar screen of Walmart and Target’s quarterly performance and Amazon hitting a trillion is… Read More
The airport in Doha, Qatar is packed at midnight. The arrivals hall has a huge yellow teddy bear in the center. Duty free stores are full and the line at the currency exchange office is… Read More
I have watched with interest the travails of Victoria’s Secret. The brand, a historic market leader, as well reported is in trouble. The seminal evolution pivot of our species in the past 100 years has… Read More
The world of information gathering and what we do with the data is in turmoil. This article is my attempt to provide context to this very necessary debate. In November of 1989 the Berlin Wall… Read More
Bentonville is now a brash new American City. No longer can you find a $24-a-night hotel room that includes a hot breakfast. Foreign car dealers and upscale chain restaurants have proliferated. Sushi bars and Korean… Read More
I closed the heavy curtain and was alone with the mattress in the mock bedroom. The noise of the shopping mall was muted in the background and there was a faint odor of orange peel,… Read More
Ponce City Market opened in 1926 as an industrial site in Atlanta built by Sears Roebuck & Company. A massive brick warehouse and distribution center with more than two million square-feet on a sixteen-acre site,… Read More
Driving from the Jacksonville, Florida airport into downtown, you pass by one of Amazon’s new distribution centers: a mammoth building of more than a million square feet surrounded by a 5,000-place parking lot. It is… Read More
Fort Worth is Texas’s best-kept secret. In the shadow of Dallas, its more prominent neighbor, it sits quietly with an elegant downtown containing good retail, interesting restaurants and some very well-respected small museums. It is… Read More
