Retail news: mall and brand expansion

They turned a virtual city within a city into a virtual reality.

The proposed shopping center will become a 1.1 million square foot area of educational, cultural, public, hotel, restaurant and retail space.

Westfield Group, owners and operators of 40 global shopping centers, has managed a testing lab within the Westfield San Francisco Center.

San Francisco has passed the first US "retail workers" bill of rights.

Rouse Properties Inc. purchased Chesterfield Towne Center about 12 months ago, and have signed a lease agreement with H&M.

Reports have been distributed about the large numbers of teens shopping at midnight on Thanksgiving.

Ubudu, based in Paris, is due to launch its first U.S. implementation of uBeacon Mesh, during the first part of next year.

Ralph Lauren has opened its fifth U.S.-based store in the Galleria, Houston.

U.S. retailers should remain aware that there is a looming invasion of international retailers into their turf.

Arcoretail linked up with the giant Chinese Jihua corporation to produce a series of innovative retail destination centers across China.

Warnings have come from several large US retailers that local companies may be "decimated" by Alibaba, unless online retail tax loopholes are closed by Congress.

The famous London toy store, Hamleys, is planning to open stores in the US for the first time and is searching for stores in major airports and cities.