There's nothing worse than unleased space in a shopping center, for the developer, tenants, and the community. Empty space translates into economic despair. EDENS is a privately held owner and developer of shopping centers on the East Coast of the United States that takes a long-term view on building community, successful leasing criteria, and meeting the retail needs of the community.

There was a time, not too long ago, when “global” was a concept, but hardly a reality. As a corporation pushed its horizons beyond the relatively homogeneous local market, it encountered increased diversity and complexity, strange customs and even stranger legal environments. There were no global markets, no truly global products and few global brands. Corporations at best were multinational, jerry-built conglomerates of local institutions, each catering to relatively homogeneous local markets, each differing from the next.