Levin's Harding Selected to Lead Roundtable at RECon 2011

Breakfast Discussion on May 23 to Focus on Shopping Center Repositioning. End Quote

New York, NY (1888PressRelease) May 17, 2011 - Matthew K. Harding, CCIM, president and chief operating officer of retail real estate services firm Levin Management Corporation, has been selected to lead a breakfast roundtable on "Repositioning, Reinventing and Renovating Shopping Centers in Today's Market" at RECon 2011 in May.

The world's largest gathering of retail real estate professionals, RECon will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, from May 22 to 25. The event is sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and attracts more than 1,000 exhibitors and 30,000 attendees each year. The breakfast roundtable format is new for 2011. The roundtables will be held on Monday, May 23, from 6:30 to 8 a.m., and will be organized as informal discussions among industry professionals focusing on specific topics.

"Keeping a shopping center in a market-leading position - or becoming the leader for the first time - requires a tenant mix responsive to the market area, as well as a good measure of curb appeal," Harding said. "And, at times, it requires a complete rethinking of the property. I look forward to sharing the different approaches and strategies that we at Levin have found to be most effective in light of current market conditions, and hearing what others in the industry are doing to foster their properties' successes."

Based in North Plainfield, N.J., Levin recently was named among the nation's top redevelopers (by Chain Store Age). The firm has completed or is in the midst of several notable projects that reflect the notion that "redevelopment is the new development" in the retail sector today. The firm manages and leases a portfolio of more than 90 properties totaling more than 12.5 million square feet and ranging from neighborhood to enclosed mall shopping centers, to downtown stores and mixed use projects.

Harding has been affiliated with Levin since 1986, and has guided the company's strategic growth. He is widely respected for his insight on current trends, market knowledge, and ground-level perspective on retail leasing and real estate activity.

Founded in 1957, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is the global trade association of the shopping center industry. Its 60,000 members in the United States, Canada and more than 80 other countries include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, lenders, retailers and other professionals, as well as academics and public officials. As the global industry trade association, ICSC links with more than 25 national and regional shopping center councils throughout the world.

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