Retail leasing in DFW reaches decade-high level

Dallas-Fort Worth retail real estate had its best year of leasing in nearly a decade in 2013. Retail space in the region has reached a 90 percent occupancy rate for the first time since 2004, said Bob Young, the managing director of The Weitzman Group, at the company’s annual forecast event Wednesday at Nick & Sam’s in Uptown, which included a fireside chat with Neiman Marcus CEO Karen Katz...