REAL ESTATE

Walmart plans to spend invest more money in its stores in Texas this year than any other state.

Fresh off its win as “Store of the Year” in the annual Shop! Awards design competition, tech-gadget retailer b8ta is extending its business in a new direction it calls “store as a service.”

Sears Holdings is set to shutter its last remaining store in Chicago.

Food halls, fitness centers, and new shops are destined for emptied Sears spaces at five Simon malls, according to company COO Michael McCarty.

Butler Town Center, the upscale mixed-use addition to the Butler retail mega-plex in Gainesville, Florida, that’s been three years in the making, is about to welcome shoppers.

Hot, value-price retailers continue to fill mall space vacated by shut-down department stores.

Embattled Sears Holdings Corp. is putting 16 of its namesake stores on the online auction block.

Construction has begun on an outdoor observation deck that will jut out 65 ft. from 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan at an elevation of 1,000 ft.