Weekend Wrap-Up: Times Square Retail Evolves, Discount Stores Score, and New York's Classic Skyscrapers Readjust

    [Times Square Shopping Searches For Its Groove Post-Pandemic]( [COVID emptied storefronts and shrunk foot traffic so much that the retail character of the Crossroads of the World shifted yet again.](   [Discount Retailers Expected to Keep Dominating National Leasing in 2023: CoStar]( [Discount retailers like Dollar General continue to dominate retail leasing nationwide in 2022 and are likely to keep that momentum into 2023.](   [New York’s Classic Skyscrapers Reinvent Themselves to Better Compete]( [Don't count out the likes of the Empire State Building, the General Motors Building, and 1271 A of A in the era of flight to quality.](   [The Storyteller: Ben Weprin’s AJ Capital Is Crafting Its Next Chapter]( [Mediocracy gets exposed when passion shows up,” Ben Weprin, CEO of AJ Capital, said.](   [NYC Missing Out on Millions in Revenue From Tax Exempt Stadiums: IBO]( [Madison Square Garden isn't the only tax-exempt arena costing NYC millions. Yankee Stadium, Citi Field and Barclays Center are too.](   [Major Food Group and Terra Team Up for 58-Story Edgewater Condo]( [The project comes eight months after MFG pulled out of developing a supertall condo tower with Michael Stern.](   [The MTA Wants One Master Tenant for Its Grand Central Madison Retail]( [It has been more complicated than simply getting tenants to lease in what is now the deepest depths of Grand Central, David Florio says.](   [Tennessee’s Proptech Scene Grows With Government, Logistics Help]( [The Volunteer State’s startups have little trouble recruiting talent too.](   [A Condo Tower Grows at Union Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights]( [A condo tower has risen on Union Theological Seminary's upper Manhattan campus, and the refectory has been converted to a pool for residents.](   [Newmark to Shepherd Sale of $60B in Signature Loans]( [The federal government is leaning on the private sector to help unwind Signature Bank’s vast commercial real estate loan portfolio.Â](   To forward this newsletter to a friend, [click here](. To manage your email preferences or unsubscribe [click here](. Visit the [Commercial Observer]( for the latest commercial real estate news. For advertising information, [download the media kit](. © Copyright 2023 [Observer Media]( 1 Whitehall Street, Floor 7, New York, NY 10004 This newsletter was published 04/01/2023. [View this email in a browser](.