It started with another miserable Friday night at LaGuardia Airport. The flight from Atlanta was delayed. A 20-minute wait in a taxi line and an hour traffic jam after midnight trying to get through the… Read More
It’s hard to sit on the sidelines and read the dialogue about Hudson Yards and the recent Wall Street Journal story about declining traffic to the American Mall. I am delighted that the prescriptive solution… Read More
RH (AKA Restoration Hardware) opened its new flagship this fall in an architecturally spectacular space in NYC’s Meat Market across from the Gansevoort Hotel around the corner from Soho House. RH left its old flagship… Read More
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
