Arrowstreet takes home Gold in the ICSC 2017 U.S. Design and Development Awards

We are excited to announce our Target small-format store at Packard’s Corner on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston received a Gold accolade in the Retail Store Design category at the 2017 U.S. Design and Development Awards competition in Scottsdale, AZ. Presented by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the 2017 U.S. Design and Development Awards recognize excellence, innovation and creativity…

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Boston Retail & Mixed-Use

Arrowstreet’s Amy Korte, David Bois, and Sean Selby, will be attending Bisnow’s Boston Retail & Mixed-Use on Thursday, September 28. Panelists will discuss the future of retail and how construction and design impacts the success of a retailer.

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Arrowstreet at ICSC RECon

Arrowstreet Principals Bob Lowe, Scott Pollack, Sean Selby, AIA, and Chief Marketing Officer Laurel Sibert will be attending this year’s ICSC RECon convention in Las Vegas on May 21-24. ICSC’s (The International Council of Shopping Centers) RECon is the world’s largest retail real estate convention with more than 37,000 attendees. Be sure to follow the conference on Twitter using the hastag #ICSCRECON

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Target’s Central Square Small Format Store Opens!

Congratulations to Target on another successful store opening, this time in Central Square. Our work with Target to design small format stores and repurpose existing buildings in urban locations has been an exciting series of projects for Arrowstreet. We’re using all of the ingredients that we search for in our projects: new ideas, a possibility to create something for the community,…

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Brooklyn Boulders Chicago Wins 2016 Chicago Design Award

We are proud to announce Arrowstreet’s Brooklyn Boulders Chicago project was a 2016 Gold Winner at the [City] Design Awards in Chicago last month. An adaptive reuse of two adjacent church buildings, the design reflects the client—a company steeped in the urban traditions of Brooklyn—and represents the subtle sophistication of the climbing community by seamlessly blending adventure, creativity, and performance; large…

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Arrowstreet at RetailGreen/CenterBuild

This year’s RetailGreen conference in Phoenix is rapidly approaching, and will be held November 29th and 30th. After two years as co-chair, this year, Sean Selby will be discussing planning for climate change during a session titled “Resiliency – Planning for a Changing World.” In recent years, we’ve seen the toll that natural disasters have taken on neighborhoods and businesses,…

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Keeping Retail Relevant

I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the retail experience enjoyable, exciting, and relevant for shoppers in 2016. Doug Stephens, a retail consultant and futurist, recently asked in the Financial Post, “If a smartphone is now a store, what is the role of the store?” It raises a lot of questions, many of which can be…

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Retail & the City (and the suburbs, too)

Once upon a time, people lived in the same places where they worked and shopped. Like my grandparents, who lived over the butcher shop in Irvington, New Jersey. Their community was tied together by local retailers. Then, someone decided that it would better and cleaner and less bothersome to separate where we lived from where we worked, and from where…

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