The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)

ICSC is the global trade association of the shopping center industry. Founded in 1957, it has thousands of members in more than 75 other countries. They include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, lenders, retailers, firms providing products and services to the industry and professionals such as academics and public officials. As the global industry trade association, ICSC links with national and regional shopping center councils throughout the world. The principal aim of ICSC is to assist members in the development of their businesses through professional education, conferences and conventions, publications, research and legislative action by collecting and disseminating information among members pertaining to techniques of profitable operation which can serve to improve the individual shopping center and the industry; studying economic, marketing and promotional conditions affecting the shopping center industry; promoting the prestige and standing of members as reputable specialists in the field of shopping center development and management; encouraging research into the architecture and design of shopping centers and into the development of improved management and maintenance methods; and promoting the role of shopping centers in the marketing of consumer goods and services.

Sheldon Goldstein, head of the Real Estate Group at Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP is an Associate Member and a frequent Lecturer and Panelist at the ICSC Law Conference held in October each year.