It's the E-Bulletin, a free service that is debuting at various times at all of the 27 malls Taubman owns or manages. Md. The e-mailed bulletin arrives every Thursday and includes sales, discounts and promotions at stores selected by the customers.
Customers register for the service on the mall's Web site.
Before creating E-Bulletin, Taubman tracked Internet usage patterns for 18,000 shoppers in its markets, and conducted 36 national focus groups, asking what consumers wanted out of a Web site. Chris Muller has joined Asadoorian Retail Real Estate as a retail leasing agent. Last summer, Asadoorian, with the help of four D.C. residents, formed Urban Partners, a company focused on bringing retail to the city's neighborhoods. That company has been rolled into Asadoorian Retail Real Estate, and Wayne Dickson, one of the residents involved with the startup, has also come on board to work with Asadoorian as a leasing agent. The law firm Wilson Sonsini is the primary tenant.